AlertMedia

Commercial Counsel

AlertMedia$120K — $150K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • JD with admission to at least one state bar
  • 2+ years of in-house legal experience, preferably in SaaS
  • Strong understanding of technology contracts
  • Experience managing high volumes of commercial contracts
  • Familiarity with data privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA
  • Ability to balance legal protections with business objectives
  • Proficient in using AI and legal technology tools

Responsibilities

  • Draft, review, and negotiate a high volume of various commercial agreements
  • Leverage AI tools to enhance legal productivity and streamline processes
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on contract terms
  • Provide timely legal guidance to sales and customer success teams during deal cycles
  • Stay updated on legal trends impacting the SaaS industry
  • Assess and mitigate legal and operational risks in contract terms
  • Train internal stakeholders on legal best practices

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary and company-wide bonus program
  • Generous and flexible time off and parental leave policies
  • 100% paid health benefits for employees including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401K with company match
  • Rewards and incentives for employee recognition
  • Opportunities for community service
  • Ongoing career development through a dedicated team
  • Access to a state-of-the-art downtown office with amenities
Full Job Description
AlertMedia is seeking a business-minded attorney with a solid understanding of technology contracts and experience in managing and negotiating a high volume of commercial transactions ranging from our SMB customers to Fortune 100 global enterprises. You will help AlertMedia continue its growth and success, with a focus on contracting for customers, vendors, and strategic partnerships. You will be the lead attorney working on a variety of innovative legal issues across the entire company. You will be required to leverage your expertise, good judgement, and strong business sense to help us grow, while assessing and mitigating legal risk. Who you are: You are relentlessly stakeholder focused to ensure timing expectations are met. You are risk aware in protecting the business legally but not risk adverse to a fault. You can balance being very detail-oriented with being able to see the big picture. You are comfortable staying on top of fast-moving information and able to respond at a moment's notice, and you bring a sense of urgency to everything you do. You see yourself as a team player and consultant working closely with internal and external stakeholders to drive negotiations to completeness. What you get to do every day: • Contract Drafting, Review and Negotiations: Review, draft, negotiate, and revise a high volume of commercial agreements, including SaaS subscription agreements, MSAs, DPAs, NDAs, procurement agreements, and vendor contracts. Operate effectively within an SLA-driven contracting environment while ensuring alignment with AlertMedia's risk profile, legal requirements, and business objectives. Apply practical judgment to resolve routine issues efficiently and escalate non-standard risk appropriately. • AI and Process Innovation: Leverage AI-enabled legal tools, contract lifecycle management systems, and standardized workflows to improve productivity, consistency, and scalability of legal support. Continuously identify opportunities to streamline processes, reduce friction in contracting, and enhance the quality and speed of legal work product. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Sales, Finance, Deal Desk, Procurement, and Executive leadership to align contract terms with strategic priorities. Help drive deals forward by proactively managing internal stakeholder expectations and balancing legal risk with commercial objectives. • Stakeholder Support and Enablement: Provide timely, clear, and actionable legal guidance to the Sales and Customer Success teams during deal cycles. Train and mentor internal stakeholders on legal and negotiation best practices to improve contract turnaround times. • Regulatory and Privacy Expertise: Stay up to date on legal trends affecting the SaaS industry, including data privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA. Support the review and negotiation of Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) and related security documentation in partnership with AlertMedia's security and compliance teams. • Risk Management: Risk Management: Assess legal and operational risk associated with contract terms and provide business-oriented recommendations that support efficient decision-making. Help ensure AlertMedia's contractual standards are consistently applied while maintaining a practical and solutions-oriented approach. What you bring to the role: • You Thrive in a High-Volume, High-Growth Environment: Experience managing a substantial volume of contracts and competing priorities in a fast-paced, SLA-oriented legal or contracting environment. Able to balance responsiveness, consistency, and attention to detail under tight timelines. • You Have Strong Commercial Judgment: Demonstrated ability to negotiate commercial agreements pragmatically and efficiently while balancing legal protections with business objectives. Experience supporting SaaS, technology, or subscription-based businesses is preferred. • You are a Daily User of AI and Technology at Work: Actively leverage AI tools, automation, and legal technology to improve productivity, consistency, and operational effectiveness. Comfortable adapting to technology-enabled legal workflows and process-driven environments. • You are an Excellent Communicator: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex legal issues and effectively influence both legal and non-legal stakeholders across all levels of the business. • You are Practical and Business-Oriented: Approaches legal issues with a pragmatic, solutions-focused mindset and a strong customer-service orientation. Understands how to appropriately assess risk without unnecessarily slowing the business. • Organized and Detail-Oriented: Highly organized with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple workstreams independently while maintaining high-quality work product. • You are a Collaborative Team Player: Works effectively across teams, contributes positively to team culture, and demonstrates professionalism, integrity, and sound judgment in all interactions. • Privacy Law Expertise: Deep understanding of data privacy regulations including CCPA and GDPR, with hands-on experience drafting and negotiating Data Protection Addendums (DPAs) and related provisions. • Business-Driven Legal Partner: Eager to immerse yourself in the business, proactively identify legal and operational risks, and propose creative solutions that support growth. • Independent and Collaborative: Able to manage multiple priorities autonomously while working effectively with cross-functional teams in a dynamic, collaborative environment. • High Integrity and Ethics: Maintains the highest ethical standards and professionalism in all aspects of legal and business conduct. • Team-Oriented: A collaborative and collegial team player with excellent interpersonal skills and a positive, solution-oriented mindset. Location: This is a hybrid role with regular in-office collaboration. Our preference is for candidates residing in Austin, TX or surrounding areas available to work from our downtown headquarters 3 days per week, but strong remote candidates will also be considered. • This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have existing authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for sponsorship now or in the future. Minimum requirements: • JD, with admission to at least one bar admission • 2+ of years of in-house experience with preference for in-house experience at a SaaS company Why you'll love working at AlertMedia: At AlertMedia, you won't just build your career - you'll be part of something meaningful, surrounded by people who genuinely care about the work and each other. • Competitive base salary + Company-wide bonus program • Generous and flexible time off and parental leave policies • Health benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance are 100% paid for employees! • 401K with generous company match • Amazing rewards and incentives - we love celebrating each other! • Commitment to community service with opportunities to give back • A Best Places to Work company 10 years in a row and numerous other awards • Access to new downtown office with 360 views of Austin, high-tech building gym and nearby running trails • Ongoing career development opportunities through our Learning & Development team • You'll do meaningful work-while growing your career in a fast-moving, global company with an award-winning culture

About AlertMedia

AlertMedia is a software company that provides emergency communication solutions for businesses. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. AlertMedia's platform allows businesses to quickly and easily communicate with their employees during emergencies, such as natural disasters or security threats. The company has been recognized for its innovative approach to emergency communication and has won several awards for its platform. AlertMedia has also been featured in numerous publications, including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and CNBC.
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200 employees
Industry
Founded
2013

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