Top Senior Legal Jobs in Minneapolis, MN

Leads legal support for Optum Health acquisitions and strategic transactions, including deal structuring, negotiation, diligence, governance approvals, risk mitigation, and post-close matters. Manages and develops a legal team, coordinates enterprise stakeholders, oversees outside counsel, establishes scalable workflows, and provides strategic, business-oriented guidance to business development, finance, and operations leaders.

Provides practical legal advice on commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, data privacy, employment matters, and vendor and sales agreements. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, technology, consulting, and service contracts; supports procurement, sales, and HR teams; monitors global legal developments; and advises on compliance. Leads adoption of automation, AI, and legal technology to improve legal operations and supports scalable processes for a fully remote technology company.

Administers legal department contract management, intake, workflows, technology platforms, business licensing, vendor invoices, and operational processes. Develops procedures, training materials, reports, dashboards, and performance metrics; supports legal personnel, strategic initiatives, M&A due diligence, corporate governance, and cross-functional projects. Requires strong organization, communication, confidentiality, problem-solving, and project-management skills, along with proficiency in Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Creates, maintains, researches, and edits practical Corporate and M&A legal content for Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law service. Supports AI-powered legal solution and editorial-tool development, monitors legal and market developments, collaborates with cross-functional teams, and builds relationships with lawyers and industry groups. The role requires extensive cross-border corporate law expertise, strong legal writing, current US bar licensure, and substantial experience advising on M&A, governance, joint ventures, and investments.

Leads legal entity governance and compliance across a complex organization. Manages entity formation, maintenance, restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, and dissolution; tracks filings, licenses, audits, financial statements, and revenue agreements; develops governance frameworks, controls, reporting, and risk processes; and partners with Legal, Finance, Tax, Accounting, Compliance, HR, Corporate Secretary, senior leaders, and external advisors to ensure accountability and regulatory compliance.

Lead export and sanctions legal counsel for Medtronic’s global trade compliance program. Advise on EAR, OFAC sanctions, export controls, restricted-party screening, anti-boycott requirements, licensing, audits, investigations, litigation, M&A due diligence, and voluntary disclosures. Develop compliance policies, interpret regulatory changes, mitigate cross-business risks, support training, and partner with legal, supply chain, compliance, and business teams globally.

Provides legal counsel to Global IT and cybersecurity leadership on governance, regulatory compliance, risk management, incident response, third-party cybersecurity, privacy, and secure technology transformation. Develops cybersecurity legal frameworks and advises on investigations, audits, enforcement, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and contractual risk mitigation. Partners with product security, compliance, communications, privacy, and enterprise risk teams across a global healthcare technology organization.

Lead the company’s legal and compliance function across cannabis regulatory compliance, corporate governance, real estate, transactions, licensing, zoning, government affairs, employment matters, and litigation readiness. Manage internal attorneys, paralegals, and outside counsel while advising executives and clients. Build audit-ready compliance frameworks, oversee regulatory strategy across multiple markets, and negotiate leases and transactions. The role is fully on-site in Edina and requires hands-on legal work, senior leadership, and expertise in complex regulated industries.

Senior Minnesota-barred counsel will manage legal operations and compliance, including entity and cannabis license renewals, commercial lease review, regulatory filings, audit-ready records, contracts, corporate documents, insurance tracking, and paralegal mentorship. The role is fully onsite in Edina and requires close collaboration with executives in a fast-moving regulated industry, with daily use of AI legal tools and strong privilege protections.

Leads legal operations transformation and enablement, including legal technology architecture, AI-enabled workflows, contract lifecycle management, process optimization, metrics, vendor management, change management, and budgeting. Builds scalable contracting infrastructure, improves self-service and legal intake, reduces outside counsel reliance, partners with IT and enterprise teams on technology delivery, and manages legal operations staff while supporting commercial and procurement contracting.

Senior Commercial Counsel supporting Americas go-to-market activities by reviewing and negotiating complex SaaS, software licensing, professional services, reseller, and customer agreements. The role leads multijurisdictional transactions, advises on regulatory and compliance developments, trains stakeholders, maintains legal policies and templates, and develops scalable workflows. Candidates should have strong commercial legal experience, business judgment, communication skills, and a U.S. state bar membership, with experience in high-growth technology companies preferred.

The Commercial Legal Director will draft, review, and negotiate SaaS, technology, data, advertising, licensing, and partnership agreements. The role advises Sales, Partnerships, Product, and other teams on contractual, privacy, data security, and commercial risks; supports deal structuring and execution; maintains legal templates and playbooks; and improves legal processes. The position requires a business-minded approach, strong negotiation skills, technology and privacy knowledge, and experience practicing commercial law in-house or at a firm.

Manages commercial contract intake, triage, and negotiation within approved templates and playbooks. Partners with attorneys on complex matters, improves contracting processes and documentation, enables business teams, and drives legal technology initiatives. Owns CLM, repository reporting, AI adoption, templates, approval workflows, and multiple concurrent projects while coordinating with Sales, Finance, Revenue Operations, Privacy, and Business Systems.

Provides the company’s primary legal support across corporate, commercial, regulatory, contract, governance, compliance, employment, and risk matters. Advises the CEO and leadership, reviews and negotiates contracts and SLAs, manages statutory filings and corporate records, supports board documentation, coordinates external counsel, and assists HR, Finance, and Procurement with legal issues.

Provides enterprise-wide legal strategy across international expansion, global privacy, product regulation, trade compliance, and market entry. Advises cross-functional teams on jurisdictional requirements, data transfers, regulatory pathways, advertising, labeling, export controls, sanctions, customs, and consumer protection. Builds scalable legal templates, playbooks, policies, and review processes; coordinates outside counsel and regulatory responses; and translates complex multi-jurisdictional requirements into actionable guidance for business and technical stakeholders.

Drafts, reviews, and negotiates U.S. and international SaaS, cloud, software licensing, services, reseller, and OEM agreements. Advises Sales and cross-functional teams on commercial risk, technology contracts, privacy, security, and regulatory requirements. Develops contract templates and negotiation playbooks, monitors legal developments, manages external counsel, and supports training and process improvement.

Provide expert legal support for global data center client contracts, focusing on complex commercial leases, triple-net leases, service agreements and gigawatt campus projects. Negotiate and draft contracts, manage contractual risk and compliance, advise leadership, support cross-functional stakeholders worldwide, and develop contract templates and procedures to improve efficiency.

The Associate Director oversees licensing strategy, manages a team, ensures regulatory compliance, and represents the organization in licensing matters.

Lead and operationalize responses to subpoenas and eDiscovery demands; manage the end-to-end eDiscovery lifecycle; coordinate internal and external stakeholders; draft and improve policies and processes for customer data requests; monitor legal and regulatory developments; and act as project manager to drive litigation operations and legal tech–driven workflow improvements.

Serve as lead commercial counsel for the go-to-market organization, negotiating complex enterprise, strategic, partnership, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and AI agreements. Advise sales and business stakeholders on risk, regulatory, privacy, and commercial issues; build scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, risk frameworks, CLM tools, and AI-enabled workflows; support quote-to-cash automation; and partner with senior leaders on strategic initiatives.

Provides senior legal counsel on AI, product development, marketing, legal technology, technology transactions, and emerging regulations. Advises Product, Engineering, Marketing, Partner, Customer Success, and Strategy teams; drafts policies and agreement terms; negotiates vendor, open-source, collaboration, and customer agreements; supports product launches and go-to-market strategies; and translates complex AI laws into practical business guidance.

Own commercial legal work, including drafting and negotiating enterprise technology agreements, SaaS licenses, partnerships, reseller arrangements, procurement contracts, and data processing agreements. Advise on AI product terms, data rights, intellectual property, cybersecurity testing permissions, liability, and risk allocation. Partner with Sales, Finance, Product, Engineering, and Security, while building scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, and training. The role requires independently leading complex negotiations and supporting a growing technology startup.

Evaluate AI-generated legal and compliance work products, including documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks, against domain-specific quality rubrics. Assess accuracy, rigor, factual correctness, aesthetics, and presentation quality, then provide clear, structured written feedback. This is a fully remote, hourly independent-contractor engagement with flexible scheduling and weekly payments.

Manage Life360’s patent and trademark portfolios, including prosecution, enforcement, and outside counsel relationships. Advise on intellectual property matters involving patents, trademarks, trade secrets, licensing, open-source software, product development, and commercial transactions. Draft and negotiate IP-related agreements, support M&A due diligence, review marketing materials for compliance, and counsel cross-functional teams on strategic IP risks and opportunities.

Owns the end-to-end contract and legal document lifecycle, including maintaining MSAs and templates, redlining routine agreements, managing document control and data rooms, coordinating due diligence, tracking renewals, and supporting contract execution. Drafts investor, equity, trademark, and corporate filing documents while serving as an internal legal and paralegal resource. Partners with Finance, Compliance, Sales, People Operations, leadership, and outside counsel, escalating higher-risk legal matters as needed.