Senior Director and Head of Legal

2 days ago


Seattle, Washington, United States CommerceIQ Full time
Job Description

CommerceIQ is revolutionizing the way brands sell online with its AI-powered digital commerce platform. Our unified ecommerce management solutions empower brands to make smarter, faster decisions through insights that optimize the digital shelf, increase retail media ROI, and fuel incremental sales across the world's largest marketplaces.

The Role:

We are seeking a Senior Director and Head of Legal to lead our commercial, corporate, and procurement legal processes. Additionally, you will provide counsel around product, data privacy, and employment. The role will be hybrid in office and at your home location.

Responsibilities:
  • Support all legal aspects of our sales contracting process and work closely with our sales operations team.
  • Draft, review, and negotiate all types of contracts needed for the business, from SaaS services agreements and complex commercial contracts to vendor contracts and NDAs.
  • Be the strong voice of legal reason, practical business advice, and judgment to our leadership team on all matters relating to risk, execution, and growth.
  • Identify issues and risks related to areas such as IP ownership, data protection, privacy laws, indemnification, limitation of liability, and regulations and emerging trends in contracts.
  • Develop contract governance best practices, including playbooks, alternate contract provisions, templates, and training material.
  • Support contractual negotiation with key suppliers and vendors.
  • Bring structure, uniformity, and efficiency to the legal department's work.
  • Collaborate and project manage activities of external legal advisory firms.
  • Work independently with minimal guidance from the company CFO.
  • Set up a company knowledge base and data room.
Requirements:
  • 10 years of combined legal experience, including in-house and at a law firm.
  • Past experience in a legal leadership capacity in an enterprise SaaS company (preferably with international sales).
  • Experience in negotiating contracts with large tech suppliers.
  • Expertise in drafting and negotiating SaaS agreements and other complex commercial contracts with large multinational customers.
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams to drive projects to completion.
  • A proven track record of risk identification, assessment, and mitigation to provide solutions for the business teams.
  • Knowledge and experience with IP rights, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, GDPR, and privacy regulations (a plus).
  • A business-oriented mindset with strong problem-solving and project management skills.
  • Experience working in a demanding, fast-paced, high-volume transaction environment and prioritizing appropriately.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
What We Offer:
  • Highly competitive pay, benefits, and early-stage stock options.
  • Unlimited PTO and seven paid company holidays.
  • Work from home benefits, including flex WFH hours and home office set-up reimbursement.
  • Monthly cell phone, internet, and gym/fitness reimbursement.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits.
  • 401K plan, FSA, and HSA programs.
  • Long-term and short-term disability.


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