Director, Commercial Legal

🕒 March 31

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 $150k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Remote

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501 - 1000 employees

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

HR Tech • SaaS • Enterprise

Remote is a global HR platform that simplifies the process of hiring, onboarding, managing, and paying employees and contractors worldwide. It offers comprehensive solutions for recruitment, payroll management, contractor management, and compliance. The platform supports businesses in handling HR tasks seamlessly and efficiently, ensuring fast and compliant payouts, providing employer of record services, and facilitating employee benefits and equity offerings. Additionally, Remote integrates with various HR systems, allowing for a flexible, scalable, and reliable solution for businesses looking to expand globally.

📋 Description

• Serving as the directly responsible individual (DRI) for Commercial Legal and leading the team to provide excellent legal support for sales, partnership, and vendor contract reviews and negotiations. Ensure sufficient and timely support at month-end and quarter-end. • Empowering GTM teams to go upmarket and close enterprise-level customers by upgrading commercial terms and templates, simplifying sales contracting processes, and proactively training GTM teams in close collaboration with Legal and GTM stakeholders. • Providing strategic support to Partnership teams on deal negotiations and bespoke terms drafting that captures business intent while maintaining commerciality for timely deal closure. • Collaborating with revenue operations and legal operations teams to automate workflows and leverage AI for increased contracting efficiency. Maintain the CLM system and relevant processes to ensure stakeholder synergy, and capture valuable commercial contracting metrics to inform better decision-making by GTM and Finance stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified lawyer in your location (mandatory) • Technically an excellent commercial contracts lawyer. (Be prepared to give examples of difficult negotiations and specific legal points you’ve tackled.) • Previous in-house experience in similar roles • Passionate about working for a tech scale-up, specifically in HR-tech • Outstanding team leader who mentors, motivates, and brings people together • Excellent ability to build trusted relationships with key stakeholders in a fully remote environment. • Excited about using AI to work smarter, faster, and more creatively. • Solves problems rather than just escalating them • Fearless to speak your mind, break things, and learn from mistakes • Low ego • Excellent analytical and organizational skills • Ability to multi-task and switch between projects on short notice • Proficiency in—or demonstrated ability to learn—Remote's tech stack, including communication application (Slack), contract management system (Coupa), documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive, etc.), and task management system (Notion) • Fluent in written and spoken English • Remote work experience is not required but considered a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• work from anywhere • flexible paid time off • flexible working hours (we are async) • 16 weeks paid parental leave • mental health support services • stock options • learning budget • home office budget & IT equipment • budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces