Relativity Technologies

Senior Counsel, Commercial Transactions

Relativity Technologies$183K — $275K *
Legal & Accounting
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing.
  • 8+ years of experience in-house or in law firms focusing on technology transactions.
  • Strong knowledge of SaaS, software licensing, cloud services, and data processing agreements.
  • Experience negotiating complex commercial contracts with strategic partnerships.
  • Familiarity with AI tools and legal technology for enhanced efficiency.
  • Solid organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Strong communication, intelligence, and creativity in problem-solving.

Responsibilities

  • Lead negotiations for customer, procurement, and strategic commercial agreements.
  • Act as a trusted legal advisor to internal stakeholders, providing strategic business counsel.
  • Engage with customers to ensure their needs are met and concerns addressed.
  • Propose improvements to contracting processes and standard forms to enhance efficiency.
  • Utilize AI legal tech tools to streamline workflow and increase productivity.
  • Support strategic pricing initiatives and commercial model optimization efforts.
  • Manage internal approval workflows and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work opportunity offering flexibility.
  • Participation in performance bonuses and long-term incentive programs.
  • Engagement in a diverse, cross-functional working environment.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
  • Access to innovative legal technology tools to enhance work efficiency.
Full Job Description

Posting Type

Hybrid

Job Overview

The Senior Counsel, Commercial Transactions serves as a senior legal advisor supporting Relativity’s commercial contracting function and strategic business initiatives.

Primary Objective: Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a broad range of customer-facing and strategic commercial transactions, with a primary focus on SaaS, software licensing, strategic partnership and go to market arrangements, cloud services, AI-enabled offerings, data processing, and other commercial arrangements.

Secondary Objective: Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Partner, Customer Success, Strategy, Security, Finance, Procurement, and other business stakeholders to enable growth, manage legal risk, develop scalable contracting processes, and support strategic initiatives.

Job Description and Requirements

Role Responsibilities 

  • Leadcustomer, procurement,and strategic commercial negotiations andtransactionsand technology-related legal workby drafting, reviewing and negotiating software, SaaS and hybrid, cloud services, AI-related offerings, and strategic partnership agreements. Collaborate with the sales, finance, security, IT and compliance teams to deliver on time, clarify expectations and problem-solve; managing stakeholder and customer communications.

  • Be a reliableand trusted advisorto our internal stakeholders by providingcreative,strategic legal advice and business counselon commercial, operational and strategic legal issues,as well as providing timely and accurate responses, and negotiating a challenging volume of contracts – with issues ranging from straight-forward to complex.  Identify the issues, and then solveforthem.

  • Engage with our customers–make sure they feel listened to and heard, and above all, deliver.

  • Suggest and work on improvements in processes,e.g.new standard forms or variations to enhance efficiencyand align tobusiness and product requirements. 

  • Exhibitagilityand enjoyment workingwith AI legal technology toolsbythriving on the efficiency they create. Know how to identify which ones work for what purposes, and why, and be willing and flexible about trying out new ones.  

  • Lead and support strategic pricing initiatives, pricing governance projects, and commercial model optimization efforts, while partnering with Finance,Global Business Operations, and business stakeholders

  • Participate inour internal approval workflow system, prioritize contracts, and respond to questionsfrom stakeholders and clients.

  • Skilled knowledge working withAItools(including legal technology tools),Microsoft O365,Salesforceand Ironclad.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Eight (8) or more years of relevant experience in-house and/or at a law firm supporting technology transactions.

  • Extensive experience negotiating SaaS, software, cloud services, professional services, data processing, strategic partnership, and enterprise commercial agreements.

  • Experience supportingcomplexcommercial contracting environments.

  • Strong understanding of technology, including legal technology, cloud services, software licensing models, information security, privacy, intellectual property, and regulatory considerations.

  • Experience supporting AI-enabled products, and emerging technology issues.

  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

  • Intelligence, flexibility, creativity, diligence,resourcefulness,responsiveness, and strongcommunicationsskills.

  • Required:Trained in and experience with contract negotiations, including commercial contracts,SaaS contracts,andrelatedservicesand supportagreements.

  • Required:Complex software, SaaS and hybrid cloud agreements, master agreements, professional servicesagreementsand software development agreements.

  • Desirable but notrequired:Basic knowledge of data privacy laws and practices in a SaaS context involving the security and processing of customer data that may include personal information.

  • Desirable but notrequired: Experience with government technology procurement contracting, includingat state, federal and local levels, andwith regard toGSA, SEWP, and FAR; basicknowledgeof FedRAMP and application to SaaS offerings and operations.

  • Desirable but notrequired:Understanding ofsoftware development, computer technology, SaaS infrastructure and services, open-sourcecommunities, and intellectual property concepts and laws.

  • JD degree from an accredited law school and license to practice in the United States

  • Ability to research and analyzelegalissues 

  • Solidproficiencywith AI tools,legal technology tools,MSOfficeand legal research platforms and tools.Familiarity with Salesforce, Ironclad and Asana.  

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Juris Doctor from an accredited law school.

  • Active bar membership in good standing

  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

  • Intelligence, flexibility, creativity, diligence, responsiveness, and strongcommunicationsskills.

  • Reasonable exposure to computer andsoftware technology concepts.

  • Solidproficiencywith MS Office, Salesforce, andContract Management Software

Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.

This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.

The expected salary range for this role is betweenfollowing values:

$183,000 and $275,000

The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position. 

Required Skills:

About Relativity Technologies

Relativity Technologies, Inc. provides software solutions. The Company offers software that helps organizations to modernize their legacy applications. Relativity Technologies serves customers in the United States.
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Size
100 employees
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Founded
2001

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