Senior Corporate Counsel, Commercial (US East)
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About the Role:
We are looking for an experienced attorney to join as an early member of Kong’s commercial legal team, responsible for helping support Kong’s strategic sales growth in the Americas East region and provide support to the AMER team as it grows. In this role, you will be a trusted strategic partner to the Americas East revenue team. You will draft, structure and negotiate customer contracts with some of the world’s biggest brands in financial services, technology, e-commerce and other industries. You will also play a primary role in supporting our US federal government customers. You will be called on to assess legal and business risks, make sound decisions, and provide advice on a broad range of issues in areas such as privacy, security, open-source software and intellectual property, and assist with other issues as they come up. You will report to Kong’s Sr. Director, Head of Global Commercial Legal. The position is based in New York, Chicago, Austin TX, or Toronto.
What You'll Do:
- Lead complex SaaS and on-premises commercial negotiations
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Kong’s Americas sales team, primarily in the US East market
- Review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of other commercial agreements
- Help ensure compliance with a variety of laws and regulations impacting our SaaS and on-premises offerings, including regarding artificial intelligence, intellectual property, privacy, security and government contracting
- Partner with Finance, Revenue Operations and Customer Assurance to support the end-to-end contract close process
- Advise internal teams on legal matters and provide general commercial legal advice
- Assisting w...