Senior Commercial Counsel

🔥 17 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Seismic

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

📣 Marketing

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

Marketing • Consulting • Healthcare

Seismic is a digital platform that enables businesses to connect with their audiences seamlessly through innovative solutions such as QR codes, URL shortening, and analytics tracking. It simplifies the process of creating engaging content and building brand connections by offering tools for mobile-friendly landing pages, customizable QR codes, and comprehensive link management. Used by various industries, Seismic facilitates better engagement and communication with audiences, whether in retail, healthcare, or financial services.

📋 Description

• Draft, review, and negotiate high volumes of commercial agreements, including SaaS subscription agreements, MSAs, order forms, DPAs, reseller/channel partner agreements, and vendor/procurement contracts • Negotiate customer-initiated security exhibits, AI terms, IT security policies, and audit/right-to-audit clauses • Advise on UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and cross-border data transfer mechanisms such as the UK IDTA and EU SCCs • Partner with Sales and Deal Ops to structure and close enterprise deals involving pricing, liability caps, indemnities, service levels, and termination terms • Manage subcontractor and vendor flow-down obligations • Maintain and improve contract templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and internal negotiation guidance • Support GTM, Customer Success, DealOps, InfoSec, Finance, and Product stakeholders on contract interpretation, compliance questions, and dispute avoidance • Track and report contracting trends, redline patterns, and recurring friction to inform template and policy updates • Assist with procurement legal matters, including SaaS and cloud vendor agreements, software licensing, and IT services contracts • Collaborate on departmental process improvements and general legal projects

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified solicitor in England & Wales (or equivalent UK jurisdiction), currently in good standing with the SRA (or relevant regulator) • Typically 7+ years of post-qualification experience for Senior Commercial Counsel • Substantial in-house or law firm experience in technology/commercial transactions • Experience drafting and negotiating SaaS/technology commercial agreements, including MSAs, order forms, DPAs, and vendor contracts • Working knowledge of GDPR, UK GDPR, and international data protection frameworks in commercial contracting • Experience negotiating customer information security requirements, AI terms, data use rights, audit rights, and vendor risk/security exhibits in a multi-tenant SaaS environment • Strong commercial judgment and ability to assess and communicate risk to non-lawyer stakeholders • Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills • Ability to manage a high-volume deal pipeline under time pressure • Experience contributing to cross-functional process improvement initiatives and legal department projects • Preferred: experience in a high-growth or publicly traded SaaS company, particularly with regulated or enterprise customers • Preferred: familiarity with export control, sanctions screening, and anti-bribery/anti-corruption considerations • Preferred: exposure to procurement/vendor management and subcontractor flow-down frameworks • Preferred: experience supporting M&A due diligence or corporate transactions from a commercial contract perspective • Preferred: familiarity with EU data protection law, U.S. privacy law such as CCPA, or other multi-jurisdictional privacy regimes • Pragmatic, business-forward approach to risk • Results-focused, team-first working style • High degree of autonomy and ownership • Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills • Process-minded approach to templates, playbooks, and workflow efficiency • Resilience and responsiveness under deadline pressure

🏖️ Benefits

• Inclusive workplace focused on employee growth and belonging • Personalized site features and application access (not a role benefit; excluded from extraction)