Senior Commercial Counsel
Senior Commercial Counsel
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Job Description
Freshworks is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Commercial Counsel to join our expanding legal department. This role offers a unique opportunity to support and influence a wide range of commercial transactions across North America while contributing to the development of legal frameworks that align with Freshworks mission and longterm strategic objectives. You will play a key role in providing legal counsel on critical business matters and ensuring the companys compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contract Drafting & Negotiation: Lead the drafting review and negotiation of a variety of commercial agreements including SaaS (cloud) channel reseller managed services marketplace data protection and professional services agreements.
- Strategic Legal Advice: Provide legal counsel to internal teams including Partners Channels Strategic Alliances and Sales on matters relating to legal risk business strategy and contract structuring. You will also negotiate compliancedriven agreements such as data processing and business associate agreements.
- Process Improvement: Develop maintain and enhance commercial contract templates playbooks and standard clauses to improve operational efficiency ensure consistency and support scalability across teams.
- CrossFunctional Collaboration: Partner closely with Sales Finance Deals Desk and Professional Services to drive business objectives while ensuring compliance. Assist in the development of internal policies to optimize vendor onboarding and the contract review process.
- Legal Compliance & Insight: Stay informed of relevant legal developments and ensure compliance with regulations related to intellectual property data privacy security and other laws across multiple jurisdictions.
Please note this is a hybrid role with onsite expectations of 3x/ week (Tuesday Thursday) at our Bellevue WA office.
Qualifications :
- A minimum of 8 years of experience as a transactional attorney preferably within an inhouse legal department at a multinational company or at a leading law firm.
- Extensive experience drafting and negotiating SaaS agreements partner and channel agreements vendor contracts data processing agreements and professional services agreements.
- Strong understanding of commercial contracts intellectual property law data privacy and data protection regulations with a proven ability to offer practical businessoriented legal solutions.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across all levels and time zones.
- Ability to navigate complex crossjurisdictional legal issues and collaborate with teams across cultures and time zones.
- A proactive serviceoriented approach with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities meet tight deadlines and deliver highquality work with meticulous attention to detail.
- Proven success in building strong working relationships with internal teams (e.g. Finance Operations Professional Services) and external partners fostering a cooperative solutionoriented environment.
- Juris Doctorate (JD) from an accredited U.S. law school and licensed to practice law in Washington.
Additional Information :
This role is based in Bellevue WA and the expected base salary range for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of jobrelated factors such as professional background training work experience business needs and market demand. Therefore in some circumstances the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for a target bonus
Base Salary: $180800 $260000 USD
At Freshworks we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential purpose and passion irrespective of their background gender race sexual orientation religion and ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees communities and the business.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
