Lead Counsel, Strategic AlliancesNew$274K

Databricks
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The opportunity

Location : We're hiring for this role locally to our offices based in Seattle or Bellevue, San Francisco, or Mountain View. This will be a hybrid role with in-office expectations.

What you'll do

  • Lead and manage all legal aspects of selected Strategic Alliance technology: transactions, including term sheet negotiations, running deal processes and negotiations, reviewing, drafting, and negotiating documents, securing and coordinating engagement and contributions from cross-functional stakeholders, including Product, Finance, Security, Procurement, Commercial Legal, Product Legal, GTM Legal, and other internal and external experts

  • Facilitate closing of agreements, coordinating with Corporate Legal and: Finance for Board approvals where needed, provide expert legal guidance and business-focused advice to clients, cross-functional teams, and leadership throughout the strategic deal process, while ensuring compliance with internal policies and applicable laws and regulations, and addressing integration and advisory issues arising post-signing within Legal and across the company

  • Drive or provide legal support for other strategic transactions or projects,: including collaborating in developing new partnering motions, and developing new processes and templates to scale our strategic partner practice

  • You have at least 10 years of experience at a nationally recognized law firm: and / or in-house legal department at a high-tech company

  • You have a J.D. from a top-tier law school, and are a Member of a state bar in good standing

  • You understand AI/foundation model platform technology and related contract: models, and have deep experience partnering around both open source and proprietary technologies, and cloud or data-platform product partnerships

What they're looking for

  • You have familiarity with open source licensing models (e.g., Apache 2.0,: MIT, model-specific community licenses) and their use with open weight models
  • You are fluent in various partnering models, including OEM, resale, and: marketplace-driven transactions, and related quote-to-cash implications
  • You are comfortable and enjoy partnering directly with cross-functional teams: to understand, incorporate, and enforce operational requirements in our partnership structures
  • You are a critical thinker comfortable in speaking up and brainstorming: productively, with a demonstrated ability to convey complex legal concepts clearly and concisely, thinking of future needs/issues, while executing on current activities.