Senior Commercial Counsel
Offer summary
Qualifications:
Law degree from an accredited institution., Qualified to practice law as an in-house attorney., Over 6 years of experience in commercial transactions, including SaaS, IP licensing, and software licensing., Experience working in the tech sector, preferably in an in-house legal department..Key responsibilities:
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements supporting sales and partnerships.
- Advising on intellectual property, data privacy, and data security matters.
- Providing input on processes, policies, and playbooks to improve organizational efficiency.
- Offering practical legal guidance to support business objectives while managing legal risks.
Job description
Welcome to the video first world!
From your everyday PowerPoint presentations to Hollywood movies, AI will transform the way we create and consume content. Today, people want to watch and listen, not read — both at home and at work. If you’re reading this and nodding, check out our brand video.
Were on a mission to make video easy for everyone. Born in an AI lab, our AI video communications platform simplifies the entire video production process, making it easy for everyone, regardless of skill level, to create, collaborate, and share highquality videos. Whether its for delivering essential training to employees and customers or marketing products and services, Synthesia enables large organizations to communicate and share knowledge through video quickly and efficiently. We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more. Read stories from happy customers and what 1,200+ people say on G2.
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements to support sales, partnerships, and our purchase of software and services from vendors. Your primary focus will be on our service agreements, software licenses, data processing agreements, and NDAs. We’ll ask you to draw from the experience you’ve gained from supporting hundreds or thousands of commercial transactions to help define business terms and structure deals in an optimal way.
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- Advising on a variety of areas ranging from intellectual property, data privacy, data security, software licensing agreements, and gotomarket strategy.
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- Providing input on processes, policies, and playbooks to help scale the organization and make our team more effective and efficient.
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- Providing effective advice by staying uptodate on relevant industry, commercial, open source, IP, privacy, employment, and other laws, regulations, and developments.
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- Developing the company’s knowledge in areas of special interest, including intellectual property, data protection, financial services, healthcare, and other regulatory matters.
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- Operating independently and providing practical, decisive guidance to our business teams that balances business objectives with legal risk, taking into account our company policies and negotiation positions.
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Requirements
- Completion of a law degree from an accredited institution, and qualified to practice law as an inhouse attorney.
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- 6+ years of postqualification experience working on different kinds of commercial transactions (e.g., strategic alliance, SaaS, IP licensing, software licensing, product resale, and distribution, working with contractors, outsourcing, facilities, etc.), including with large enterprise companies, companies in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, etc.), government, and edu companies.
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- Experience working in an inhouse legal department, ideally in the tech sector.
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- Comfortable negotiating data processing agreements, including a working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA as they relate to commercial contracts.
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- Clean and concise drafting of documents, policies, Slack messages, emails, and other communications in a manner that is digestible for nonlawyers.
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- Understanding of cloud services, technology, and professional services contracts.
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- Knowledge of nonlegal business processes gained inhouse relating to sales operations and revenue recognition.
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- Experience managing workload on tight timelines with multiple competing demands.
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- Extra points if you have an understanding on the use of training data for building AI models.
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Culture
At Synthesia we’re passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here.
Salary: $150k $240k based on experience and location
💸 You will be compensated well with a competitive base salary + stock options.
🏝 You get 25 days of annual leave
🥳 You will join an established company culture with regular socials and company retreats.
- Completion of a law degree from an accredited institution, and qualified to practice law as an inhouse attorney.
- 6+ years of postqualification experience working on different kinds of commercial transactions (e.g., strategic alliance, SaaS, IP licensing, software licensing, product resale, and distribution, working with contractors, outsourcing, facilities, etc.), including with large enterprise companies, companies in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, etc.), government, and edu companies.
- Experience working in an inhouse legal department, ideally in the tech sector.
- Comfortable negotiating data processing agreements, including a working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA as they relate to commercial contracts.
- Clean and concise drafting of documents, policies, Slack messages, emails, and other communications in a manner that is digestible for nonlawyers.
- Understanding of cloud services, technology, and professional services contracts.
- Knowledge of nonlegal business processes gained inhouse relating to sales operations and revenue recognition.
- Experience managing workload on tight timelines with multiple competing demands.
- Extra points if you have an understanding on the use of training data for building AI models.
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Culture
At Synthesia we’re passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here.
Salary: $150k $240k based on experience and location
💸 You will be compensated well with a competitive base salary + stock options.
🏝 You get 25 days of annual leave
🥳 You will join an established company culture with regular socials and company retreats.
Requirements
Required profile
Experience
Other Skills
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Problem Solving
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