Senior Corporate Counsel, Commercial and Data Protection
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Job Location:
Manchester, CT - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 145 - 175
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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About Us:
At Sitecore our mission is to simplify how brands reach engage and serve people by delivering intelligent personalized digital experiences that connect the world. We empower the worlds most iconic brands to build lifelong relationships with their customersseamlessly smartly and at scale.
As the leading provider of agentic digital experience software Sitecore brings together content commerce and data into one composable platform that enables brands to deliver millions of meaningful adaptive experiences every day. Trusted by global leaders such as American Express Porsche Starbucks and LOréal Sitecore helps brands transform engagement through experiences that are not only personalized but predictive and dynamic.
Our foundation is our peoplea diverse passionate and collaborative global team spanning over 25 countries. We believe that every experience matters and that belief starts with how we work together. Our values guide how we lead innovate and connect. They are the behaviors that bring our mission and vision to life every day in every interaction.
As we continue to evolve we are actively cultivating AI skills across our teams to unlock new levels of creativity efficiency and insight. From engineering to customer experience AI capabilities are becoming integral to how we design build and deliver the next generation of digital experiences.
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About the Role:
As Senior Corporate Counsel Commercial and Data Protection you will support Sitecores commercial legal needs across the Americas with a focus on customer-facing SaaS cloud software licensing and services agreements. You will also advise on data protection privacy AI and product-related legal issues that arise in the sales cycle and across Sitecores technology offerings.
This role requires a practical business-minded attorney who can lead complex commercial negotiations support privacy and data protection matters and partner effectively with Sales Deal Desk Finance Privacy Security Product Customer Success and Procurement.
The role is primarily a commercial contracting role with meaningful responsibility for data protection and privacy terms customer privacy escalations and product and AI-related legal support. You should be comfortable advising senior stakeholders managing competing priorities and helping the business close deals while protecting Sitecores legal operational and commercial position.
What Youll Do:
- Draft review and negotiate customer-facing SaaS cloud software licensing services partner and other commercial agreements.
- Serve as a primary legal partner for the Americas Sales organization providing practical legal guidance on commercial transactions customer negotiations approvals and escalations.
- Advise on contract structure risk allocation liability indemnities service levels security terms data protection terms AI terms and product commitments.
- Negotiate Data Processing Agreements Standard Contractual Clauses privacy addenda subprocessors provisions data transfer terms and related privacy and data protection provisions.
- Provide first-line legal guidance on privacy and data protection questions from Sales Customer Success Product Security Procurement and Finance.
- Work closely with Sitecores Privacy and Security teams on customer privacy escalations customer due diligence data protection risk assessments vendor privacy issues and product privacy reviews.
- Support Product Engineering Security and Privacy teams on product updates feature releases AI-enabled functionality integrations beta programs proofs of concept and customer-facing product commitments.
- Advise on legal issues connected to data usage personalization product telemetry AI outputs automated processing customer disclosures and emerging technology.
- Maintain and evolve contract templates playbooks clause libraries fallback positions approval processes and internal guidance.
- Deliver internal training on commercial contracting privacy data protection AI terms and legal processes.
- Collaborate with Finance Privacy Security Product Procurement Compliance and other teams on legal and business initiatives.
- Support general corporate matters and special projects as needed.
What You Need to Succeed:
- JD from an accredited US law school and active license to practice law in at least one US jurisdiction.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant legal experience in an in-house legal department.
- Strong experience negotiating SaaS cloud software licensing data protection and technology agreements.
- Proven ability to support Sales teams in a legal capacity preferably at a software SaaS cloud data AI martech or enterprise technology company.
- Demonstrated ability to advise on privacy and data protection issues in a commercial contracting environment.
- Strong working knowledge of DPAs BAAs SCCs GDPR UK GDPR CCPA/CPRA subprocessors data transfers and customer privacy negotiations.
- Familiarity with AI-related legal issues product data use product telemetry personalization or emerging technology issues.
- Excellent drafting negotiation and communication skills with the ability to explain complex legal issues clearly and pragmatically to business stakeholders.
- Ability to translate business needs into practical legal solutions and clear contract drafting.
- Comfortable interacting with senior management and cross-functional teams.
- Strong business judgment and ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines.
- Collaborative flexible and able to work across teams and geographies.
Additional Skills That Could Set You Apart:
- Experience at a SaaS cloud martech adtech AI data or enterprise software company.
- Good understanding of software development APIs cloud infrastructure AI systems and enterprise technology architecture.
- Experience supporting Product Engineering or Security teams on product launches privacy-by-design AI governance or product compliance.
- Experience advising on intellectual property matters including software licensing open source copyright trademarks trade secrets or product-related IP risk.
- Experience with security schedules incident response support vendor risk or customer security reviews.
- Experience supporting cross-border transactions or working with global stakeholders across the US UK EU and APAC.
- Experience building legal playbooks scalable contracting processes internal training and self-service resources.
Why You Should Click Apply:
Sales and Customer Success are key to Sitecores success. We are operating in a significant market opportunity as brands rethink how they use content commerce data and AI to create more personalized digital experiences.
This role gives you the opportunity to work on matters central to Sitecores growth: commercial deals privacy data protection AI product support and responsible innovation. You will partner with global teams advise senior stakeholders and help shape how Sitecore brings trusted technology to market.
You will join a collaborative legal team with strong business visibility a practical approach and a direct role in supporting the companys growth.
Sitecore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity without unlawful regard to race color ancestry religion gender national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability veteran status or any other local legally protected characteristic.
Compensation details:the base salary for this role ranges from $145k to $175k in addition to a 15% bonus structure.
Sitecore offers a comprehensive benefits package including multiple health insurance options(medical dental and vision coverage) a 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions generous paid time off(vacation/PTO paid sick leave and paid holidays as well as paid volunteer days) fully paid parental leavefor new parents company-paid disability insurance(short-term & long-term coverage) and life insurance and an Employee Assistance Programsupporting employees well-being and a number of voluntary benefits to choose from available upon date of hire.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Sitecore connects content, data, and personalization in one AI-powered platform. Move faster, work smarter, and create experiences that redefine what’s possible.
