Senior Director and Head of Legal

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Sunnyvale, CA
200K-280K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • eCommerce • Marketing Tech • Software • Analytics
We are building the operating system for brands to win in E-commerce.
The Role
The Senior Director and Head of Legal will lead the legal processes for commercial, corporate, and procurement. Responsibilities include negotiating and drafting contracts, providing risk management advice, and implementing best practices in contract governance while collaborating with external legal advisors.
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Company Overview

CommerceIQ’s AI-powered digital commerce platform is revolutionizing the way brands sell online. Our unified ecommerce management solutions empower brands to make smarter, faster decisions through insights that optimize the digital shelf, increase retail media ROI and fuel incremental sales across the world’s largest marketplaces. With a global network of more than 900 retailers, our end-to-end platform helps 2,200+ of the world’s leading brands streamline marketing, supply chain, and sales operations to profitably grow market share in more than 50 countries. Learn more at commerceiq.ai.

The Role:

We’re seeking a Senior Director and Head of Legal to lead our commercial, corporate, and procurement legal processes. Additionally, you will provide counsel around product, data privacy, and employment. This is a hybrid role with 2 days in office that will be based out of our Bay Area, CA headquarters.

What You'll Do:

  • Support all legal aspects of our sales contracting process and work closely with our sales operations team.
  • Draft, review and negotiate all types of contracts needed for the business, from SaaS services agreements and complex commercial contracts to vendor contracts and NDAs.
  • Be the strong voice of legal reason, practical business advice and judgment to our leadership team on all matters relating to risk, execution and growth.
  • Identify issues and risks related to areas such as IP ownership, data protection, privacy laws, indemnification, limitation of liability and regulations and emerging trends in contracts.
  • Develop contract governance best practices including playbooks, alternate contract provisions, templates and training material.
  • Support contractual negotiation with key suppliers and vendors.
  • Bring structure, uniformity, and efficiency to the legal department’s work.
  • Collaborate and project manage activities of external legal advisory firm.
  • Work independently with minimal guidance from company CFO.
  • Set up company knowledge base and data room.

What You'll Bring:

  • 10+ years of combined legal experience including in-house and at a law firm.
  • Past experience in a legal leadership capacity in an enterprise SaaS company (preferably with international sales).
  • Experience in negotiating contracts with large tech suppliers.
  • Expertise in drafting and negotiating SaaS agreements and other complex commercial contracts with large multinational customers.
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams to drive projects to completion.
  • A proven track record of risk identification, assessment and mitigation to provide solutions for the business teams.
  • Knowledge and experience with IP rights, including copyrights, patent, trademarks, GDPR and privacy regulations a plus.
  • A business-oriented mindset with strong problem-solving and project management skills.
  • Experience working in a demanding, fast-paced, high volume transaction environment and prioritizing appropriately.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits & Perks: 

  • Highly competitive pay, benefits, and early-stage stock options
  • Unlimited PTO and seven paid company holidays
  • Work from home benefits including flex WFH hours and home office set-up reimbursement
  • Monthly cell phone, internet, and gym/fitness reimbursement
  • Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits
  • 401K plan, FSA, and HSA programs
  • Long-term and short-term disability


The typical base pay range for this role across the US is USD: $200,000 - $260,000/per year    

This base pay range may be inclusive of several career levels at CommerceIQ and will be narrowed based on a number of factors including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location.  

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at CommerceIQ. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock options, as well as potential discretionary bonuses. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k)-retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other perks. We have at least 10 paid company holidays in each calendar year, in addition to this we have unlimited PTO for our full-time employees.


We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other category prohibited by applicable law.



We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other category prohibited by applicable law. 

The Company
HQ: Bengaluru, Karnataka
367 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

CommerceIQ is the leader in E-commerce Channel Optimization (ECO), the practice of using machine learning, analytics and automations to optimize the e-commerce channel across supply chain, marketing and sales operations to win at the moment of purchase and drive profitable market share growth.

Why Work With Us

CommerceIQ is building innovative products in a hot market, in a pre-IPO company with a bold vision, and with passionate colleagues who are collectively building a company for the long run. We have developed a culture to support our growth and deliver a unique employee experience with market competitive pay and exceptional benefits.

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