The opportunity
👋 I’m Kelly , Senior Legal Counsel at Ashby. I joined Ashby recently as our first dedicated legal hire and I’m now building the legal team to support our next phase of growth.
What you'll do
Be the go-to reviewer for all things commercial contracting, with a primary: focus on sales and a strong secondary focus on procurement, plus other opportunities such as partnerships and cross-functional work.
On the sales side, be an early, high-impact part of establishing full suite in-house sales support.
Review, draft, and negotiate customer NDAs, MSAs, Order Forms, and DPAs with: a focus on speed, commercial pragmatism, and scalability.
Develop best-in-class sales enablement, internal guidance, and external collateral.
Build efficient processes and smart workflows that make commercial: contracting scalable, including playbooks, cross-functional enablement, and new SOPs and workflows across a wide variety of repeatable tasks, partnering with our Legal Ops Manager where appropriate.
Be a responsive, reliable partner to the sales team and other internal: stakeholders, someone they want to work with, not around.
What they're looking for
- On the procurement side, manage a steady flow and wide variety of procurement: and vendor requests, reviewing and negotiating contracts in partnership with business owners to keep marketing, events, and tooling moving quickly and to meet turnaround expectations, while iterating on our procurement process as we grow.
- Partner closely with security, IT, and product to ensure prospect and: customer questionnaires are answered accurately and promptly, and to build scalable solutions.
- Help shape and improve legal operations, including the workflows, technology,: and tools relevant to contract work such as CLM and CPQ. You should be excited about what AI and new tools bring to the practice of law, with proven experience driving adoption internally.
- Identify and get involved in other areas as our legal team's bandwidth grows,: bringing clarity, insight, and an ownership mentality to everything you touch.
