Databricks

Senior Counsel, Professional Services GTM

Databricks$203K — $285K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of technology transactions experience in-house or at a law firm.
  • Experience with commercial transactions for cloud-based software companies.
  • Skill in drafting, negotiating, and closing complex professional services agreements.
  • Strong knowledge of legal issues surrounding data privacy, information security, AI, and IP.
  • Ability to balance and mitigate legal risks in a high-stakes environment.
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
  • JD and good standing to practice law.

Responsibilities

  • Review and negotiate global partner and customer agreements to support revenue growth.
  • Foster strong relationships with sales teams by offering strategic legal counsel.
  • Maintain and update legal agreements, focusing on professional services.
  • Provide pragmatic legal advice based on understanding Databricks' technology offerings.
  • Collaborate with various departments to ensure legal compliance in contracts.
  • Cut through legal complexities to empower sales and customer agreements.
  • Mentor and guide junior members of the legal team.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive employee benefits and perks tailored to diverse needs.
  • Opportunities for annual performance bonuses.
  • Equity participation in the company.
Full Job Description
GAQ426R81

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

Databricks is looking for an experienced commercial attorney to join Databricks' growing go-to-market legal team. As Legal Counsel, you will be joining a team of legal professionals responsible for reviewing and negotiating customer and partner agreements and providing legal support for Databricks' revenue-generating activities. You will report to the VP, International General Counsel.

You have 7+ years of relevant commercial legal transactional experience, focusing on professional services within complex technology transactions. You have meaningful experience negotiating professional services terms as part of SaaS commercial transactions and strong knowledge/experience counseling on legal issues related to data privacy, information security, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property.

The impact you will have:
  • Become an important member of the go-to-market legal team responsible for reviewing and negotiating partner and customer agreements globally. Focus on balancing/mitigating risk for the company while continuing to enable our rapid revenue growth.
  • Cultivate strong relationships with field sales by providing sound, strategic counsel to support ongoing go-to-market efforts.
  • Help maintain and update our legal agreements, with particular focus on professional services, ensuring that terms and internal policies are positioned to continue enabling rapid revenue growth and maintaining long-term stability for the company.
  • Serve as a solutions-oriented business partner by providing pragmatic, sound legal counsel to internal Databricks clients and our growing customer base based on your understanding of Databricks' technology, professional services offerings, information security architecture, and data privacy/compliance policies.
  • Work cross-functionally with our business partners (e.g., Finance, Information Security, Product, and privacy) to align, communicate, and enforce applicable policies and controls in our global contracting processes.

What we look for:
  • Minimum of seven (7) years of technology transactions experience, either at a law firm and/or in-house Attorney role.
  • Relevant commercial transactional experience working for and/or supporting cloud-based software companies, including an understanding of professional service delivery to support consumption growth.
  • Substantial experience drafting, negotiating, and closing complex professional services agreements and a strong understanding of contractual issues related to information security, data privacy, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property.
  • Proven ability to successfully navigate and counsel on complex legal issues while balancing and/or mitigating material risk.
  • Demonstrated experience prioritizing competing demands and being responsive to client expectations in a fast-paced environment within a limited time period.
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
  • Growth mindset, strong attention to detail, excellent critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
  • Teaming approach with a focus on building a strong interlock with clients, business partners, and key stakeholders.
  • Experience and/or strong interest in mentoring and guiding junior legal team members.
  • JD and good standing to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction.


Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Zone 1 Pay Range

$203,900-$285,425 USD

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Zone 2 Pay Range

$183,500-$256,850 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide - including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

BenefitsAt Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Compliance

If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

About Databricks

Databricks is a unified analytics platform that provides data engineering, collaborative data science, and machine learning capabilities. The company was founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, a popular open-source big data processing engine. Databricks provides a cloud-based platform that allows data teams to collaborate and build data pipelines, run machine learning models, and perform advanced analytics. The company has raised over $1 billion in funding and is valued at $38 billion as of November 2021.
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