Senior Commercial Transactions Counsel

🕒 March 12

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HighLevel

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 Series A on 2021-11

SaaS • Marketing • B2B

HighLevel is an all-in-one marketing and sales platform designed to help businesses grow and succeed. The platform consolidates various marketing tools into a single solution, providing features such as lead capture through landing pages, surveys, forms, and calendars, as well as tools for nurturing leads via automated messaging across multiple channels including phone, SMS, email, and social media. HighLevel offers customizable solutions like online appointment scheduling, multi-channel follow-up campaigns, and pipeline management. Additionally, businesses can build websites, funnels, and landing pages using the intuitive page builder. HighLevel supports integrating with existing systems via API, and offers a membership platform for community building and course management. The platform is targeted towards marketers and offers white-labeling options for businesses to brand the software as their own. With a community-driven development approach and award-winning support, HighLevel is focused on empowering businesses to streamline their operations and enhance their marketing efficiencies.

📋 Description

• Independently draft, review, and negotiate a range of commercial agreements, including procurement contracts, integration partner agreements, enterprise customer agreements, influencer/endorsement agreements, SaaS subscriptions, MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, and DPAs • Make risk-calibrated decisions on commercial terms with minimal escalation, exercising sound judgment on when to accept, push back on, or escalate contractual risk • Develop and maintain negotiation playbooks with clearly defined fallback positions, risk thresholds, and approved alternative language • Leverage creative deal structures and negotiation strategies that reflect HighLevel's approach to doing things differently while managing risk appropriately • Consult closely with the Cybersecurity team on vendor security assessments and HighLevel's ability to agree to customers' cybersecurity commitments in commercial agreements • Work comfortably with privacy-related contract provisions (DPAs, data processing terms, cross-border transfer mechanisms) • Partner with Finance to ensure HighLevel is achieving optimal pricing structures and that commercial terms — including payment, liability, and economic provisions — are favorable to the business • Bring sufficient intellectual property expertise to identify and minimize IP risks in commercial agreements, including licensing, ownership, and indemnification provisions • Supervise and mentor at least one contract manager, providing clear guidance on drafting standards, negotiation boundaries, and escalation triggers • Act as a trusted legal advisor to senior business leaders, translating complex contract terms and legal risk into clear, actionable business guidance

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar • 8+ years of commercial transactions experience, with a strong preference for candidates who have spent meaningful time in-house at a technology or SaaS company • Demonstrated ability to independently draft and negotiate complex commercial agreements with minimal oversight • Proven track record of advising senior business leaders and non-legal stakeholders on contractual risk in a way that drives decisions forward • Experience creating negotiation playbooks, clause libraries, and other scalable legal tools • Experience working with procurement teams and non-lawyer business partners across functions, including finance, cybersecurity, and product/engineering • Familiarity with contract lifecycle management platforms (Ironclad experience a plus), or a willingness to roll up your sleeves and become an Ironclad expert • Working knowledge of intellectual property, data privacy, and cybersecurity concepts as they arise in commercial agreements • Outstanding organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail and ability to manage a high-volume workload by prioritizing based on business impact • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor your message for audiences ranging from engineers to executives • Experience working on diverse, cross-functional legal teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity information • Optional demographic information collection for compliance