Senior Counsel - Commercial Contracts

What Makes You a Great Fit:

As Senior Counsel – Commercial Contracts, you will support the company's Go-to-Market team and other departments. This may include but is not limited to drafting, negotiating, and advising on Velocity Global's commercial contracts with its customers, partners, and vendors, as well as supporting the business in other areas such as intellectual property, data privacy, compliance, and artificial intelligence.

This role calls for someone energized by Velocity Global's vision of making opportunity borderless for people everywhere. The right candidate is eager to learn about the employer of record market and how Velocity Global operates as a company, in addition to possessing a solid business understanding and the ability to give practical, solution-oriented advice, striking the appropriate balance between legal risk and business objectives.

The position will report to the General Counsel.

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Manage a remote team to draft, review, negotiate, manage, and advise on all types of commercial contracts (including customer MSAs, DPAs, SOWs and terms of service, partnership and referral agreements, NDAs, inbound vendor agreements, etc.) and related documents (including amendments, customer RFPs, supplier forms, notice letters, etc.)
• Partner with the Revenue department to improve deal velocity and achieve our sales goals by contributing to legal-related sales, strategic partnerships, and marketing matters. These efforts may include streamlining contracting processes, developing internal policies, managing intellectual property matters, responding to general inquiries from prospective customers, reviewing and/or developing legal and compliance-related marketing assets, etc.
• Coordinate with outside counsel on pre-litigation matters and for jurisdiction-specific or specialized legal advice.
• Perform other critical legal and compliance-related duties that may be required occasionally.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by the personnel so classified.

Let's Connect If You:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements below represent knowledge, skill, and/or ability.

• Juris Doctor degree from an ABA-accredited law school, licensed to practice law in any US state, and good standing with the relevant bar association(s) in the US state(s) where licensed to practice law.
• 8+ years of experience practicing transactional law, including experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts for a SaaS company. Experience practicing with an in-house legal department.
• Location – this job may be performed remotely from any location in the United States. However, candidates located in the Denver or Palo Alto will work on a hybrid remote/in-office model.
• Adaptable/flexible – able to multitask, prioritize and escalate effectively, and embrace organizational change.
• Experience integrating AI tools in the legal review process.
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Detail-oriented with excellent analytical skills – capable of identifying and anticipating potential issues and developing workable solutions.
• High level of personal integrity and professional ethics.