About the role
Location: We seek to fill this position locally in our offices located in Seattle, Bellevue, San Francisco, or Mountain View. This role offers a hybrid work environment with in-office expectations.
Databricks is in search of an experienced commercial attorney with extensive professional services expertise to join our expanding go-to-market legal team. In the capacity of Senior Legal Counsel, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the global strategy for Databricks' revenue-generating activities, focusing on enhancing our professional service provisions. You will report directly to the VP, International General Counsel.
Your background includes over 7 years of substantial commercial legal transactional experience, with a concentration on professional services within intricate technology transactions. You possess significant experience in negotiating professional services terms as part of SaaS commercial agreements and have a strong understanding of legal matters related to data privacy, information security, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property.
Key Responsibilities:
- Become an integral member of the go-to-market legal team responsible for reviewing and negotiating partner and customer agreements on a global scale. Aim to balance and mitigate risk for the company while facilitating our rapid revenue growth.
- Establish solid relationships with field sales by providing strategic legal counsel to bolster ongoing go-to-market initiatives.
- Assist in maintaining and updating our legal agreements, particularly those related to professional services, ensuring that terms and internal policies support continued revenue growth and long-term stability for the company.
- Act as a solutions-oriented business partner by providing pragmatic legal advice to internal Databricks clients and our expanding customer base, guided by your understanding of Databricks' technology, professional services offerings, information security architecture, and data privacy/compliance policies.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with business partners (e.g., Finance, Information Security, Product, and Privacy) to align, communicate, and enforce applicable policies and controls in our global contracting processes.
