Legal Counsel

About This Role

This is a part-time, high-impact Legal Counsel role focusing on commercial negotiations, global partnerships, and product launches for a rapidly growing global SaaS company in the accounting industry.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements including enterprise customer agreements, channel partner, vendor, and supplier contracts, NDAs, and standard form agreements.
• Lead and support commercial negotiations across Sales, Partnerships, and GTM teams.
• Provide legal and commercial advice on product launches, especially concerning payments, data handling, and cross-border services.
• Collaborate with the CFO and executives to build scalable legal processes and templates for global operations.
• Support due diligence, compliance, and integration for strategic initiatives, partnerships, or acquisitions.
• Offer practical legal support on employment matters like agreements, policies, and compliance.
• Act as a trusted legal advisor to the Executive Leadership Team, identifying risks and enabling business decisions.
• Manage external counsel across multiple jurisdictions as needed.
• Maintain and evolve internal legal resources such as playbooks and templates.

Requirements

• 6-8 years of legal experience, ideally in-house at a SaaS or tech company and/or at a top-tier law firm
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, including customer, vendor, and partner agreements
• Solid understanding of corporate and transactional matters
• Admitted to practice law in at least one relevant jurisdiction
• Clear, concise communicator who collaborates well with cross-functional, non-legal stakeholders
• Practical, proactive, and comfortable making judgment calls without over-engineering

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of legal experience, ideally in-house at a SaaS or tech company and/or at a top-tier law firm

Nice to Have

• Exposure to employment and compliance
• Experience with SaaS, data protection, privacy, or information security

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits