Senior Commercial Counsel, Revenue

🕒 October 6

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $145k - $165k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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First seen by Remote Rocketship October 6

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Accela

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2000

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

Consulting • Logistics • Construction

Accela is a leader in providing cloud-based solutions designed to modernize government services. Their unified suite of innovative applications focuses on building more connected communities through enhanced efficiency and secure data management. Accela empowers local and state governments by streamlining processes such as building permits, licensing, cannabis regulation, and environmental health. With a focus on civic solutions, Accela aims to improve public sector operations by eliminating data silos and facilitating better interactions with residents. By leveraging their SaaS platform, governments can enhance service delivery, increase transparency, and reduce operational costs, leading to significant time and cost savings.

📋 Description

• Partner closely with Sales, Business Development, and Services organizations to accelerate revenue operations and implement contracting best practices • Serve as primary point of contact and subject-matter expert for complex direct sales, reseller, ISV, and global partner transactions • Reduce deal friction and help close transactions faster • Draft and negotiate SaaS, partner, reseller, software license and maintenance, services, RFP response, and other commercial legal agreements • Coordinate with outside counsel and legal team members to ensure compliance across jurisdictions • Contribute to ad hoc company projects, including M&A, compliance, and corporate initiatives • Negotiate directly with customers and partners and advise multiple departments throughout the deal lifecycle

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 5-7 years of relevant experience, including hands-on work with SaaS enterprise agreements • Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited U.S. law school • Active member in good standing of a U.S. State Bar • Genuine enjoyment of complex deal-making • Ability to work with diverse colleagues with professionalism, transparency, and a good sense of humor • Self-driven, collaborative, and business-focused, with a team-first mindset • Strong desire to engage directly with customers and internal teams to negotiate win-win outcomes • Ability to quickly triage situations, think creatively, and drive transactions to close • Experience with direct sales agreements, partner/channel agreements, or services agreements • Desired: experience with government technology contracting, including GSA, SEWP, NASPO, or TX-DIR • Desired: familiarity with software revenue recognition rules • Desired: experience negotiating professional services engagements alongside SaaS agreements • Desired: exposure to privacy or government relations compliance matters

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus target; discretionary bonus based on company and individual goal achievement • Flexible time off • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans • Family planning benefits • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match • Health savings account with company contributions • Flexible spending account • Life, accident, and disability coverage • Business travel insurance • Employee assistance programs • Other well-being benefits • Occasional travel for team or company events

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