Kong Inc.
API • SaaS • Enterprise
Kong Inc. is a company that provides a comprehensive API platform designed to facilitate API management, AI integration, and developer productivity. It offers solutions like Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, and a variety of other tools targeted at managing and optimizing the API lifecycle. Kong's platform supports multi-cloud environments and is built to deliver high performance and security. It is notably recognized by Gartner as a leader in API management and supports innovations across industries like financial services, healthcare, and technology. The company emphasizes flexibility, security, and speed, making it a favored choice for enterprises looking to enhance their digital services through APIs. Kong also supports a robust community of developers and provides extensive integrations and plugins to streamline API management and operations.
Senior Corporate Counsel, Commercial
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October 22
Kong Inc.
API • SaaS • Enterprise
Kong Inc. is a company that provides a comprehensive API platform designed to facilitate API management, AI integration, and developer productivity. It offers solutions like Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, and a variety of other tools targeted at managing and optimizing the API lifecycle. Kong's platform supports multi-cloud environments and is built to deliver high performance and security. It is notably recognized by Gartner as a leader in API management and supports innovations across industries like financial services, healthcare, and technology. The company emphasizes flexibility, security, and speed, making it a favored choice for enterprises looking to enhance their digital services through APIs. Kong also supports a robust community of developers and provides extensive integrations and plugins to streamline API management and operations.
📋 Description
• Lead complex SaaS and on-premises commercial negotiations • Serve as a trusted advisor to Kong’s Americas sales team • Review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of other commercial agreements • Help ensure compliance with a variety of laws and regulations impacting our SaaS and on-premises offerings, including intellectual property, privacy, security and government contracting • Partner with Finance, Revenue Operations and Customer Assurance to support the end-to-end contract close process • Advise internal teams on legal matters and provide general commercial legal advice
🎯 Requirements
• Law degree, and member in good standing of the California state bar, or eligible to be a registered in-house counsel in California • Minimum 7 years of experience practicing law both in private practice and in-house, preferably with late-stage private and/or early-stage public technology companies • Demonstrated experience in negotiating and closing complex SaaS and software contracts with large, sophisticated customers • Collaborative, and willing to build something together as a team • Great judgment, and an ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships within the company, with customers, and others • Working knowledge of intellectual property, data governance and information security/privacy matters • High professional and personal standards, and a commitment to inclusiveness • Attention to detail and an ability to view legal issues within the context of business objectives
🏖️ Benefits
• Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
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