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Director, Commercial Legal

Full TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States + 1 moreAll locations: United States, United Kingdom

Posted

6 hours ago

Salary

Not specified

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Job Description

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Role Description

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space. We're seeking a talented and seasoned commercial contract lawyer with extensive experience in sales, partnership, and procurement transactions in HR Tech and/or SaaS—as well as leading and guiding a team of up-and-coming commercial lawyers. You should be passionate about our team's mission, which is:

  • To deliver pragmatic and innovative legal solutions for Remote's products and stakeholders while protecting Remote from unacceptable risk.

Key priorities for this role include:

  • Serving as the directly responsible individual (DRI) for Commercial Legal and leading the team to provide excellent legal support for sales, partnership, and vendor contract reviews and negotiations.
  • Empowering GTM teams to go upmarket and close enterprise-level customers by upgrading commercial terms and templates, simplifying sales contracting processes, and proactively training GTM teams in close collaboration with Legal and GTM stakeholders.
  • Providing strategic support to Partnership teams on deal negotiations and bespoke terms drafting that captures business intent while maintaining commerciality for timely deal closure.
  • Collaborating with revenue operations and legal operations teams to automate workflows and leverage AI for increased contracting efficiency.

Qualifications

  • Qualified lawyer in your location (mandatory)
  • Technically an excellent commercial contracts lawyer
  • Previous in-house experience in similar roles
  • Passionate about working for a tech scale-up, specifically in HR-tech
  • Outstanding team leader who mentors, motivates, and brings people together
  • Excellent ability to build trusted relationships with key stakeholders in a fully remote environment
  • Excited about using AI to work smarter, faster, and more creatively
  • Solves problems rather than just escalating them
  • Fearless to speak your mind, break things, and learn from mistakes
  • Low ego
  • Excellent analytical and organizational skills
  • Ability to multi-task and switch between projects on short notice
  • Proficiency in—or demonstrated ability to learn—Remote's tech stack, including communication application (Slack), contract management system (Coupa), documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive, etc.), and task management system (Notion)
  • Fluent in written and spoken English
  • Remote work experience is not required but considered a plus

Requirements

  • Guide, mentor, and nurture a team, including proactively providing timely and constructive feedback to team members
  • Build strategic relationships with GTM stakeholders and increase Legal's influence and voice in important discussions about the company's commercial strategies
  • Identify company-wide legal issues and work with key internal stakeholders and external partners to implement efficient and effective solutions
  • Take on a leadership role in cross-team legal projects, collaborating with Remoters from other teams (GTM, Tax, Finance, Product, etc.) and the Legal Team to ensure projects are completed on time with high-quality deliverables
  • Institute best practices and lead training to help the Legal Team function more efficiently, expand knowledge base and expertise, and make legal advice easier to access and use for both other Remoters and clients
  • Seek to improve team efficiencies through close collaborations with other support teams such as Legal Ops and Revenue Ops
  • Manage external local counsel as needed
  • Assist with other legal, advisory, regulatory, and compliance work as required

Benefits

  • Work from anywhere
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Flexible working hours (we are async)
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • Mental health support services
  • Stock options
  • Learning budget
  • Home office budget & IT equipment
  • Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

Job Requirements

  • Qualified lawyer in your location (mandatory)
  • Technically an excellent commercial contracts lawyer
  • Previous in-house experience in similar roles
  • Passionate about working for a tech scale-up, specifically in HR-tech
  • Outstanding team leader who mentors, motivates, and brings people together
  • Excellent ability to build trusted relationships with key stakeholders in a fully remote environment
  • Excited about using AI to work smarter, faster, and more creatively
  • Solves problems rather than just escalating them
  • Fearless to speak your mind, break things, and learn from mistakes
  • Low ego
  • Excellent analytical and organizational skills
  • Ability to multi-task and switch between projects on short notice
  • Proficiency in—or demonstrated ability to learn—Remote's tech stack, including communication application (Slack), contract management system (Coupa), documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive, etc.), and task management system (Notion)
  • Fluent in written and spoken English
  • Remote work experience is not required but considered a plus
  • Guide, mentor, and nurture a team, including proactively providing timely and constructive feedback to team members
  • Build strategic relationships with GTM stakeholders and increase Legal's influence and voice in important discussions about the company's commercial strategies
  • Identify company-wide legal issues and work with key internal stakeholders and external partners to implement efficient and effective solutions
  • Take on a leadership role in cross-team legal projects, collaborating with Remoters from other teams (GTM, Tax, Finance, Product, etc.) and the Legal Team to ensure projects are completed on time with high-quality deliverables
  • Institute best practices and lead training to help the Legal Team function more efficiently, expand knowledge base and expertise, and make legal advice easier to access and use for both other Remoters and clients
  • Seek to improve team efficiencies through close collaborations with other support teams such as Legal Ops and Revenue Ops
  • Manage external local counsel as needed
  • Assist with other legal, advisory, regulatory, and compliance work as required

Benefits

  • Work from anywhere
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Flexible working hours (we are async)
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • Mental health support services
  • Stock options
  • Learning budget
  • Home office budget & IT equipment
  • Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

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