We are looking for a sharp, entrepreneurial, and highly collaborative Commercial Counsel to support our commercial legal function. As a fast-growing B2B SaaS platform, our legal team acts as a strategic business partner and a core engine for revenue acceleration.

In this role, you will be highly customer-facing, regularly joining calls with enterprise buyers, procurement teams, and customer counsel to unblock deals and streamline the sales cycle. You will balance a sharp eye for risk management with a pragmatic, business-first mindset to help us scale from our current growth stage to the next level.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

Core Focus: Commercial Negotiations & Sales Enablement

Enterprise Deals: Act as a customer-facing legal representative during complex enterprise B2B negotiations. Directly engage with client counsel and procurement teams to find creative, risk-adjusted solutions.
Drive Deal Velocity: Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, and Revenue Operations to streamline the closing process, reduce sales-cycle friction, and establish clear negotiation playbooks.
Draft & Refine Templates: Continually provide feedback to optimize our standard contracts, including Master Services Agreements (MSAs), Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Terms of Service (ToS), and Data Processing Addendums (DPAs).

Data Privacy & Product Counseling

Privacy Compliance: Serve as an internal expert on data privacy frameworks impacting SaaS (e.g., GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA). Ensure our DPAs and data-handling practices reflect current regulations.
Product & AI Governance: Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to review new features, third-party integrations, APIs, and AI/ML technologies to ensure compliance and mitigate IP or data liability.

Legal Operations & Scaling

Continuous Process Improvement: Participate in and/or lead workflow process improvements as needed to ensure deals and contracts move forward efficiently.
Train the Team: Educate the sales and account teams on fallback positions, commercial legal risks, and the effective use of contract playbooks.

Corporate Partnerships & Risk Management

Vendor & General Corporate Support: Review incoming vendor contracts, support partnerships teams with non-commercial contracts that support customers.

Qualifications & Skills

Education & Credentials: Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school and an active bar membership in good standing.
SaaS Experience: 10+ years of legal experience, with at least 2–3 years spent in-house at a fast-growing B2B SaaS or technology scale-up.
Expert Negotiator: Proven experience in high-stakes, customer-facing commercial negotiations with Fortune 500/Enterprise procurement teams.
Business-First Mindset: Ability to translate complex legal issues into practical, actionable business advice for non-legal stakeholders. You know when to fight for a clause and when to accept commercial risk.
Autonomy & Grit: Thrives in a fast-paced, startup environment. Navigate ambiguity well and is comfortable wearing multiple hats.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

This job is based on-site in Austin, TX with the opportunity to work remotely on Friday, unless approved to be performed remotely within the United States.
This is largely a sedentary role; standard office equipment is used, such as laptops, monitors and headsets, if needed.
Limited travel may be required

We value being together : We believe being together enables stronger relationships, collaboration, and culture.

This position is in office and candidates must be located in Austin, Texas.

Perks at Findhelp

401k & equity grants
Free food and onsite gym at our Austin HQ
Paid parental leave
Competitive PTO & 10 paid holidays
Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance with 100% company-paid coverage for employee only coverage
Dog-friendly office in Austin HQ
24/7 access to telemedicine and counseling
Book Purchasing Program

We’re building a diverse, inclusive team

You’re welcome here. We want everyone to be able to easily connect to the help they need, and we want our teams to reflect and represent our communities. It is our policy to recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals, as well as administer any and all Company policies, without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin or ancestry, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, or any other protected class, in accordance with applicable laws. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.

Here are some of the ways we support our staff:

Culture Committee
Leadership Development Training
Paid Volunteering Time

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Senior Commercial Counsel