Senior Director of Commercial and Legal Affairs

🕒 August 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $210k - $264k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Backblaze

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2007

🛍️ eCommerce

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $5M Series A on 2012-07

Cloud Storage • eCommerce • Enterprise

Backblaze is a cloud storage company that provides scalable and secure data backup solutions for both businesses and individuals. Their B2 Cloud Storage service offers S3 compatible object storage, allowing users to easily protect and manage their data with transparent pricing. Backblaze specializes in automatic and unlimited backup services for computer systems, ensuring data protection and recovery options for users, while also supporting integration with applications for enhanced functionality.

📋 Description

• Lead and oversee Backblaze’s commercial, privacy, and product legal functions • Serve as strategic business partner across Sales, Product, Engineering, Security, and Compliance • Lead commercial contracting and own complex, high-value, and strategic transactions • Draft, review, and negotiate enterprise SaaS agreements, MSAs, SOWs, partnership and channel agreements, reseller agreements, professional services agreements, consulting agreements, and related technology transactions • Provide strategic guidance on complex or high-risk negotiations • Advise on global privacy and data protection matters, including GDPR and CCPA • Oversee data protection agreements, privacy terms, and related contractual frameworks • Advise Product and Engineering teams on product design, feature development, and launches • Counsel on data use, AI and machine learning, intellectual property, open source, and product-related regulatory issues • Advise on commercial, privacy, and contractual terms for AI features and AI-driven workloads • Develop and improve commercial playbooks, templates, policies, and negotiation frameworks • Optimize contracting processes, including through AI-enabled contracting and legal tooling • Partner with Legal Operations to enhance tooling, workflows, and reporting • Provide training and guidance on contracting best practices, privacy requirements, and risk awareness • Lead, manage, mentor, coach, and develop legal professionals • Set priorities, allocate work, and support team planning, resourcing, and process improvements • Report to the Head of Legal & Compliance

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. degree and active U.S. bar membership in good standing • 10 or more years of relevant legal experience • Substantial experience negotiating and leading complex technology transactions, including enterprise SaaS agreements and strategic partnerships • Meaningful in-house legal experience, preferably at a high-growth technology or SaaS company • Strong experience supporting enterprise sales motions, partner and channel relationships, and global commercial operations • Working knowledge of global privacy and data protection laws • Experience advising on data protection obligations in commercial agreements and product offerings • Experience providing practical legal guidance to product and engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle • Familiarity with, or genuine willingness to develop fluency in, AI and its legal, privacy, and commercial implications • Comfort using AI tools to work more efficiently • Prior experience managing, mentoring, or developing legal team members, or demonstrated readiness to take on people management responsibilities • Excellent business judgment and ability to manage competing priorities • Proven ability to lead, influence, and collaborate across functions and seniority levels • Clear and effective communication skills • Hands-on, pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach with strong ownership and accountability

🏖️ Benefits

• Great healthcare benefits (100% healthcare premiums for family) • Competitive compensation • 401K matching • RSU equity awards • Flexible vacation policy • Maternity & paternity leave • MacBook Pro to use for work plus a generous stipend to personalize your workstation • Childcare bonus • Commuter benefits • Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance