Senior Commercial Counsel

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely, and quickly, increasing customers' pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy, and manage reliability, feature flags, and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI/CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing, Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, and Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We're backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank.

Position Summary

Harness is seeking a Senior Commercial Counsel (EMEA) (title dependent on experience) to join our lean and dynamic legal team. This role will primarily focus on negotiating and managing commercial contracts including enterprise SaaS agreements, on-premises software license agreements, data processing agreements, and partner agreements. The ideal candidate will have experience negotiating against large enterprises and advising on key legal considerations in the UK and EU.

As part of a small in-house legal team, flexibility is key. While the focus will be on commercial contracts, you may also be asked to support related areas such as employment, IP, regulatory compliance (including data privacy and AI), and legal operations.

About the role

• Draft, review, and negotiate a range of commercial agreements including SaaS contracts, license and services agreements, and DPAs.
• Work closely with Sales, Finance, and Deal Operations teams to support deal structuring.
• Advise internal stakeholders on legal and regulatory risks in key EMEA markets.
• Provide strategic guidance on commercial transactions, contract disputes, and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with external counsel when necessary on specialized matters.

About you

• 7 years of legal experience with significant in-house experience at a US-based SaaS company.
• Strong background in commercial contract negotiation, particularly against large enterprise customers.
• Experience with UK and EU commercial and regulatory frameworks relevant to SaaS businesses.
• Working knowledge of data privacy (GDPR) and AI regulations.
• Qualified in the UK or an EU jurisdiction with practical experience handling EMEA legal matters.
• Fluent in English (additional languages are a plus but not required).
• Ability to work independently in a remote-first environment while collaborating with global teams.

Work Location

Remote

What you will have at Harness

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Flexible work schedule
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement

Harness in the news:

• Harness Grabs a $150m Line of Credit
• Welcome Split!
• SF Business Times - Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area
• Forbes - 2024 America's Best Startup Employers
• SF Business Times - 2024 Fastest Growing Private Companies Awards
• Fast Co - Best Workplaces for Innovators

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting / Offers

We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers.

Please note we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment fee to be paid or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission's website or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Key Skills

Forecasting, Hyperion, Cost Management, Construction Estimating, QlikView, Bus Driving, Analysis Skills, HubSpot, Salesforce, Market Research, negotiation, Financial Planning

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1