GAQ326R449
Location: This position will be based in either San Jose, Costa Rica or Sao Paulo, Brazil. This will be a hybrid role with in-office expectations.
About the Role:
Databricks is seeking a qualified Attorney to join Databricks growing commercial legal team. You will be the first attorney hired to provide direct legal support to our growing commercial business in the Latin America (LatAM) region. Reporting to the Director, Assistant General Counsel, you will negotiate Master Cloud Services Agreements (MCSA), DPAs, NDAs, SOWs, and other contract terms relevant to our business (e.g., AI Terms).
You have a minimum of 4+ years of relevant commercial legal transactional experience with direct experience operating in the LatAM region. You have meaningful experience negotiating complex SaaS commercial transactions and strong knowledge/experience counseling on legal issues related to data privacy, information security, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property, including open source software.
What You Will Do
- Negotiate, draft, and close MCSAs with LatAM prospects and customers, ensuring compliance with data privacy, information security, and regulatory requirements.
- Partner with cross-functional teams locally and at HQ (sales, finance, product, compliance) to drive revenue-generating transactions while mitigating risks.
- Help maintain and update our legal agreements, ensuring that terms and internal policies are positioned to continue enabling rapid revenue growth and maintaining long-term stability for the company.
- Serve as a solutions-oriented legal business partner by providing pragmatic, sound legal counsel to internal Databricks clients and our growing customer base based on your understanding of local, regional requirements, Databricks' technology, product portfolio, information security architecture, and data privacy/compliance policies.
- Support company OKRs, strategic initiatives, and special projects across the legal team.
- Minimum of four (4) years of technology transactions experience, either at a law firm and/or in-house Attorney role.
- Fluency in Portuguese and Spanish; native speakers preferred.
- Relevant commercial transactional experience working for and/or supporting cloud-based software companies, including an understanding of consumption/commit-based business models and the quarterly sales cadence.
- Demonstrated experience drafting, negotiating, and closing complex software sell-side transactions.
- Proven ability to successfully navigate and counsel on complex legal issues while balancing and/or mitigating material risk.
- Able to prioritize competing demands and be responsive to client expectations in a fast-paced environment within a limited time period.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Growth mindset, strong attention to detail, excellent critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
- Teaming approach with a focus on building a strong interlock with clients, business partners, and key stakeholders.
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Benefits
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At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
Compliance
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Skills Required
- Minimum of four years of technology transactions experience
- Fluency in Portuguese and Spanish
- Experience negotiating complex SaaS transactions
- Knowledge of data privacy and information security
- Experience in a law firm or in-house role
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants and RSUs are a major part of total compensation and are highlighted for meaningful upside potential. Stock-based awards and refreshers contribute to strong overall pay positioning across senior technical and go-to-market roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are complemented by mental-health resources, an EAP, and wellness reimbursements. Health benefits are consistently framed as comprehensive and competitive.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for all parents, fertility support, and backup care options provide tangible assistance for family needs. Hybrid work norms and team-day structure further ease coordination for caregivers.
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What We Do
As the leader in Unified Data Analytics, Databricks helps organizations make all their data ready for analytics, empower data science and data-driven decisions across the organization, and rapidly adopt machine learning to outpace the competition. By providing data teams with the ability to process massive amounts of data in the Cloud and power AI with that data, Databricks helps organizations innovate faster and tackle challenges like treating chronic disease through faster drug discovery, improving energy efficiency, and protecting financial markets.
