Associate Legal Counsel | Commercial

Reposted 11 Days Ago
2 Locations
In-Office
145K-200K Annually
Junior
Fintech • Financial Services
Ramp helps thousands of businesses control spend, save time, automate busywork—and save an average of 3.5%.
The Role
The Counsel, Commercial Legal will negotiate contracts, provide legal advice, ensure compliance, and improve legal processes at Ramp, collaborating closely with various teams.
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About Ramp

At Ramp, we’re rethinking how modern finance teams function in the age of AI. We believe AI isn’t just the next big wave. It’s the new foundation for how business gets done. We’re investing in that future — and in the people bold enough to build it.

Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save companies time and money. Our all-in-one solution combines payments, corporate cards, vendor management, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping with built-in intelligence to maximize the impact of every dollar and hour spent. More than 45,000 businesses, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $10B and 27.5M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over $100 billion in purchases each year.

Ramp’s investors include Thrive Capital, Sands Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.

Ramp has been named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn’s Top U.S. Startups for more than 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies.

About the Role

We are looking for a Legal Counsel, Commercial, to help drive Ramp’s next phase of growth! Reporting to the Senior Counsel, Commercial, you’ll be a key partner for other teams at Ramp and responsible for reviewing, negotiating, and advising on contracts with vendors, partners, and customers. You'll be an integral part of the Legal team as we strive to provide exceptional and efficient strategic legal and business advice. Our team's goal is to enable Ramp to help our customers succeed while limiting Ramp’s material legal risks. We, therefore, value pragmatism and business acumen as well as the ability to quickly identify material legal risks. We hold ourselves accountable to results and foster a collaborative, transparent, inclusive, and fun work environment that allows us to grow personally and professionally.

What You’ll Do
  • Review, revise and negotiate all types of sales, partnership and procurement agreements

  • Provide commercial legal advice to sales, partnership and procurement teams

  • Negotiate and draft agreements, amendments, NDAs and other legal documents

  • Ensure compliance with relevant company policies

  • Work closely with deal desk to build processes and tools for negotiating sale agreements at scale

  • Help build new processes to improve our team’s and Ramp’s efficiency

  • Drive consistency across deals by helping to optimize, streamline, and standardize contractual language

  • Provide ad-hoc legal advice where needed

  • Assist in building playbooks and pre-approved terms

  • Help organize and create legal training for our Ramp colleagues

What You’ll Need
  • A juris doctor (J.D.) degree from an ABA-accredited law school

  • 2-4 years of professional experience as an attorney (this is a junior counsel role)

  • Licensed in any U.S. state

  • Exceptional communication skills, written and verbal

  • Prior experience negotiating technology/SaaS agreements, NDAs and data processing

  • agreements

  • Excellent project management instincts

  • You have a “get things done” mentality; you can dissect problems, identify solutions, and drive these solutions to completion with a high degree of autonomy

  • You are a true team player with a track record of successful cross-functional collaboration

Nice to Haves
  • Graduated from a top-ranked law school or have demonstrated academic excellence

  • Working knowledge of Ironclad, Google Workspace and Microsoft Word

  • Prior experience in high-growth startups and/or high-growth technology companies

  • Prior experience working with procurement teams and/or sales teams

  • Prior experience working with Fortune 1000 companies as customers and/or vendors

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)
  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you

    • Partially covered for your dependents

    • One Medical annual membership

  • 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)

  • Flexible PTO

  • Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)

  • WFH stipend to support your home office needs

  • Wellness stipend

  • Parental Leave

  • Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)

  • Pet insurance

Referral Instructions

If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.

Other notices

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Top Skills

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Ironclad
Microsoft Word
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
450 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Ramp is building the next generation of finance tools—from corporate cards and expense management, to bill payments and accounting integrations—designed to save businesses time and money with every click. More than 10,000 customers cut their expenses by 3.5% per year and closing their books 8x faster by switching to the Ramp platform.

Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment software in America and enables billions of dollars of purchases each year. Ramp continues to grow at an increasingly large scale, more than doubling its revenue run rate in the first half of 2022.

Valued at $8.1 billion, Ramp's investors include Founders Fund, Stripe, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Coatue Management, D1 Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst, and Thrive Capital, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart. Ramp was named Fast Company’s most innovative finance company in 2022.

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