Senior Legal Counsel

Samsara Samsara · Enterprise · United Kingdom · Remote · Legal

This role is for a Senior Legal Counsel at Samsara, a company focused on the Connected Operations Cloud. The primary responsibilities include negotiating commercial contracts in Europe, developing scalable contracting workflows, and supporting various legal matters such as privacy, employment, regulatory, corporate, product, and compliance. The role requires strong judgment, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and building a best-in-class legal function in Europe. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Negotiate and drive to execution commercial contracts with European and other customers, vendors, and business partners
  2. Develop and scale commercial contracting workflows in Europe, including by drafting and developing form agreements and building and improving contracting tools and processes
  3. Have the opportunity to support the growth of the company’s business in Europe in a broad range of legal subject matters, which may include privacy, employment, regulatory, corporate, product, and/or compliance matters.
  4. Work with the Legal team and cross-functional partners to drive strategic business and legal initiatives in Europe and act as a trusted partner to relevant stakeholders like Sales, Sales Operations, Partnerships, Finance, Customer Success, Marketing, Product, People, Operations, and Customer Support teams.
  5. Help build a best-in-class legal function for the company in Europe.

Skills

Required

  • European commercial contracting
  • negotiation
  • contract drafting
  • legal advice on privacy, employment, regulatory, corporate, product, and compliance matters
  • stakeholder management
  • building legal functions
  • 8+ years of relevant experience in a law firm and/or in-house position in the United Kingdom
  • implementing and supporting complex scalable workflows
  • interpersonal skills
  • written and verbal communication

Nice to have

  • IoT data
  • Connected Operations Cloud
  • Video-Based Safety
  • Vehicle Telematics
  • Apps and Driver Workflows
  • Equipment Monitoring

What the JD emphasized

  • complex commercial matters
  • strategic customer, partner, and vendor agreements
  • scalable playbooks and workflows for commercial contracting
  • local privacy, employment, regulatory, corporate, product, and compliance topics
  • complex risks
  • cross-functional processes
  • deep experience in European commercial contracting
  • sound judgment, and discretion
  • building strong relationships with senior cross-functional stakeholders
  • taking ownership of ambiguous goals
  • drive high-impact, business-oriented outcomes
  • dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • drive projects of varying complexity
  • collaboration with multiple teams
  • embrace new challenges and the unexpected
  • clearly distill their analysis into actionable and scalable guidance
  • diverse needs of their business stakeholders
  • willing to jump in to assist their colleagues on any project, large or small, regardless of whether it falls within their scope of expertise
  • 8+ years of relevant experience in a law firm and/or in-house position in the United Kingdom, including experience implementing and supporting complex scalable workflows.
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills that allow for clear communication (both written and verbal).