The opportunity
WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence.
What you'll do
We’re looking for a Senior commercial counsel who thrives on deal-making and: loves turning legal complexity into business clarity. In this role, you’ll be the trusted legal partner to our sales and procurement functions, reporting to our Head of Commercial Legal. You’ll be drafting and negotiating SaaS agreements that power our growth and keep our partnerships strong. If you’re energized by fast-paced negotiations with large enterprise companies, curious about cutting-edge technology, and excited to join a small-but-mighty team that values creativity and collaboration (all with a sense of humor and low ego) then, this may be the role for you. Come help us redefine what it means to be an in-house legal team - and have fun doing it.
Review and negotiate inbound and outbound commercial contracts, including: inbound and outbound SaaS licensing agreements, strategic partnership agreements, data processing agreements and other important contracts with our enterprise customers and suppliers.
Develop and manage various contract templates and negotiation playbooks and: improve efficiency of sales contracting processes in collaboration with Sales Operations.
Create thoughtful processes that benefit the business (not just legal) and: how we support our internal stakeholders as we grow and scale - If you see something that doesn’t work, or could be better, we want you to help fix it!
Enable and train our go-to-market teammates by giving them practicable advice and guidance.
A law degree from an accredited law school and admitted to practice law in the U.S.
What they're looking for
- + years of experience negotiating commercial contracts, ideally at a SaaS: company and/or law firm servicing tech industry clients.
- Experience contracting with large enterprise companies and strategic: partners, often in heavily-regulated industries (finance, healthcare, insurance). Bonus points if you’ve supported a global sales team with international offices.
- Exposure to privacy, IP, and/or AI-specific legal issues, with a basic: understanding of AI. We don’t need you to be an expert, but it helps if you know the basics.
- Experience using contract management tools, in particular to help legal teams: like ours continue to be data-driven.
