Job Description
Job Title: Senior Commercial Counsel
Job Type: Remote-Contract
Duration: 6 months
Job Description:
Summary:
Client is seeking a senior commercial attorney to support our Commercial Legal team on a temporary, 6-month basis. This role will provide immediate coverage for complex customer deal negotiations, with a primary focus on Financial Services and Healthcare & Life Sciences customers.
This attorney will operate as a fully integrated member of the Commercial Legal team and must be able to independently manage high-value, high-complexity SaaS transactions with minimal ramp time.
- Responsibilities:
- Lead review, drafting, and negotiation of complex commercial customer agreements, including MSAs, DPAs, order forms, and related documents
- Serve as primary legal lead on assigned transactions from intake through execution
- Provide strategic legal support for enterprise transactions in Financial Services and Healthcare & Life Sciences verticals
- Navigate regulatory, data privacy, information security, AI, and IP-related issues in sophisticated customer negotiations
- Partner closely with Sales to move deals forward while appropriately balancing and mitigating company risk
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Information Security, Privacy, Product, and other internal stakeholders as needed to close transactions
- Manage a high volume of matters efficiently in alignment with quarterly sales cycles
- Requirements:
- 7+ years of technology transactions experience, including substantial in-house experience directly partnering with Sales and cross-functional stakeholders in a high-growth SaaS or cloud company
- Strong expertise in drafting and negotiating complex enterprise SaaS agreements, including consumption- and commit-based commercial models
- Demonstrated success independently managing sophisticated transactions with Financial Services and Healthcare & Life Sciences customers, including banks, insurance companies, asset managers, fintech, health systems, payors, pharmaceutical, biotech, and digital health organizations
- Strong working knowledge of data privacy, information security, AI-related terms, and intellectual property (including open source)
- Demonstrated ability to independently drive complex negotiations while balancing legal risk with revenue objectives
- Comfortable operating with minimal oversight in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with competing priorities
- Exposure to U.S. Public Sector contracting frameworks is a plus (but not required)
- JD and active license in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
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