Commercial Counsel, SaaS & Tech Contracts

Apply; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Socure is seeking a Commercial Counsel to partner with Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering to shape the company’s legal function. You will negotiate, draft, and review technology and commercial contracts, and drive risk management across data use, licensing, and privacy.

This role reports to the Head of Commercial Legal or a Senior Legal Counsel and sits within a fast-paced, market-leading identity verification company.

Qualifications

• JD from an accredited law school and active Bar membership in good standing.

Responsibilities

• Advise on a broad range of commercial matters, serving as legal partner to Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Security, and Product on deal structure, contract negotiations, risk, and compliance
• Review, draft, negotiate, and interpret a wide range of technology and commercial contracts, including SaaS agreements, partner/reseller agreements, NDAs, evaluation agreements, and vendor contracts
• Independently identify and resolve legal and regulatory risks related to IP, licensing, data use, privacy, and compliance in commercial contracts
• Become an expert on Socure's products and business models, and help bring new offerings to market
• Identify and advise on risk, and offer creative, pragmatic risk-mitigation solutions
• Prepare, maintain, and improve template agreements, playbooks, and operational guidance to help the sales and legal teams move faster
• Use AI tools as part of your everyday contract workflow — including AI-assisted drafting, redlining, and review — to accelerate turnaround on sales contracts, and surface ideas for where automation could further improve the team's efficiency
• Ensure that customer contract terms addressing data usage rights or restrictions are consistent with the rights Socure has secured under its underlying data-acquisition and vendor agreements, coordinating as needed with the Senior Corporate Counsel, Data Acquisition & Licensing, the Data Acquisition team, Product Counsel, and Privacy

Skills

Negotiation

Cross-functional

AI tools

Project management

Diplomatic communication

Education

JD from a law school

Job description

Socure is seeking a Commercial Counsel to partner with Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering to shape the company’s legal function. You will negotiate, draft, and review technology and commercial contracts, and drive risk management across data use, licensing, and privacy.

This role reports to the Head of Commercial Legal or a Senior Legal Counsel and sits within a fast-paced, market-leading identity verification company.