Sr. Commercial Counsel

BigID

12h•$200,000 - $220,000•Remote

About The Position

BigID is an innovative tech startup that focuses on solutions for data security, compliance, privacy, and AI data management. We're leading the market in all things data: helping our customers reduce risk, drive business innovation, achieve compliance, build customer trust, make better decisions, and get more value from their data. We are building a global team passionate about innovation and next-gen technology. BigID has been recognized for: BigID named one of Forbes America's Best Startup Employers 2026 - ranked #15 overall and #1 in Security BigID named Hot Company in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the Global InfoSec Awards Citizens JMP Cyber 66 List of Hottest Privately Held Cybersecurity Companies CRN 100 list named BigID as one of the 20 Coolest Identity Access Management and Data Protection Companies (3 years running) DUNS 100 Best Tech Companies to Work for Top 3 Big Data and AI Vendors to Watch' in the 2023 BigDATAwire Readers and Editors Choice Awards 2024 Inc. 5000 list for the 4th consecutive year! Shortlisted for the 2024 AI Awards in the category of Best Use of AI in Cybersecurity At BigID, our team is the foundation of our success. Join a people-centric culture that is fast-paced and rewarding: you’ll have the opportunity to work with some of the most talented people in the industry who value innovation, diversity, integrity, and collaboration. We’re looking for a Sr. Commercial Counsel to join our growing, but tight-knit legal team. Our ideal candidate is someone who has hands-on global enterprise software transaction experience and is able to drive an efficient negotiation process that all sides feel is fair and balanced. Someone with commercial and complex, high-touch tech transaction experience, coming from in-house at a high-tech growth company, or at a law firm, ideally a combination of both.

Requirements

8+ years of experience, complex tech transactional expertise, but intellectual curiosity and desire to expand areas of knowledge and participation as the business might require, e.g. privacy, product, HR, corporate matters.
J.D., with strong academic credentials and membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to advocate for a position while maintaining a collaborative and open-minded approach.
Highly organized, reliable, detail-oriented, and diligent with an ethos of project ownership.
Ability to work on multiple issues simultaneously and set appropriate priorities with clients and deliver results.
Proven ability to provide entrepreneurial, pragmatic, business-oriented advice, with a dedication to superior customer service.
Ability to operate autonomously while being a team player who brings a positive attitude to the job.

Nice To Haves

Experience and knowledge of Privacy Laws, and Data Security concepts.
Demonstrated ability to operationalize and scale the commercial contracting process.
Experience with "zero leverage" sell-side negotiation and deal-making with large enterprise-class customers.

Responsibilities

Draft, negotiate, and advise cross-functional teams on various commercial agreements, including software/ SAAS licenses, NDAs, evaluation agreements, ecosystem partnership agreements, DPAs, and vendor contracts.
Provide thoughtful and practical product, business, and legal counseling on various legal risks, business strategies, and other issues related to product features, commercial transactions, and general operations.
Manage and resolve complicated issues related to commercial deals, and drive alignment with various cross-functional teams.
Be ready to own the entire contracting cycle--from initial draft to execution--and collaborate with business, privacy and product teams to drive contract negotiations to timely and successful completion.
Help build, streamline, and operationalize the company’s contracting process to help us scale as a Legal team and as a company.
Support HR, Marketing, Product Development, and other internal constituencies as needed in contracts, research, deal structuring, and risk counseling.
Get tagged in by the GC where needed as a utility player/problem solver. This is an “everyone does everything” team, where we learn from each other.