Legal Counsel / Attorney

Tines; Hyde Park Township (IL); Remote; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an entrepreneurial Legal Counsel / Attorney to join their expanding Legal team in the US. This unique opportunity allows you to lead negotiations on commercial contracts and collaborate with diverse teams, making a significant impact on the company's growth. With a focus on simplicity, speed, and soundness, you'll be part of a dynamic environment that values individual curiosity and integrity. If you're ready to embrace challenges and contribute to innovative solutions, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Mindestens 5 Jahre Erfahrung im allgemeinen Unternehmensrecht mit Schwerpunkt auf kommerziellen Transaktionen.
• Aktive Mitgliedschaft in einer US-Bar erforderlich.

Responsibilities

• Leitung der Verhandlungen aller Formen von kommerziellen Verträgen.
• Zusammenarbeit mit dem nordamerikanischen Vertriebsteam für erstklassige Vertretung.

Skills

Verhandlung von kommerziellen Verträgen

Allgemeines Unternehmensrecht

Verhandlungsgeschick

Geschäftsverständnis

Kundenorientierung

Education

Mitgliedschaft in einer US-Bar

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Founded in 2018 with co-headquarters in Dublin and Boston, Tines powers some of the world's most important workflows. Our orchestration, automation, and AI platform enables businesses to operate more effectively, mitigate risk, reduce tech debt, and focus on high-impact work.

Tines serves a diverse range of customers, from startups to public companies, including Canva, Databricks, Elastic, Kayak, Intercom, and McKesson. As an integrator across the entire tech stack, Tines connects with any API-enabled service. This flexibility enables our customers to achieve their highest-priority goals faster. And because Tines is secure and private by design, it’s popular with security, IT and other security-focused teams.

At Tines, we're driven by our values of Simplicity, Speed, and Soundness. We're committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences while fostering a company culture that nurtures individual curiosity, growth, and integrity. We’re excited about what’s next, and we’re looking for others to join us on our journey.

This is a remote position ideally based in either Mountain or West Coast time zones.

Job Summary

Tines is looking for an entrepreneurial Legal Counsel / Attorney to join our expanding Legal team in the US. You will report to our Director of Legal (based in U.S. - central time) and will be a key cross-functional business partner, particularly to the U.S. Sales, Partnerships, and Customer Success teams. This is a unique opportunity to be an early member of the Tines legal team and have a significant impact on Tines’ growth and expansion over the coming years.

What You Will Be Doing

1. Lead negotiations of all forms of commercial contracts, such as SaaS agreements, self-hosted software licensing terms, data processing agreements, partner agreements (referral, reseller, tech alliance and integration), MSAs and SOWs, MNDAs, and vendor agreements
2. Own the maintenance and updating of playbooks, commercial templates, sales enablement materials, etc.
3. Apply your expertise in core contractual areas such as indemnification, liability, IP, security, and privacy standards to our fast-paced negotiations
4. Work closely with North American GTM sales team to provide world-class representation
5. Support global initiatives such as streamlining legal processes as we develop our product and enter new international markets, and partnering with geographic leads to ensure alignment
6. Collaborate with outside counsel on complex or third-party paper deals as needed
7. Help follow, enhance, and develop scalable processes for all stages of deal lifecycles as part of a legal operations and data-driven team

What You Bring With You

1. Active good standing status membership to a U.S. Bar
2. Minimum 5 years experience with general corporate law (emphasis on commercial transactions)
3. Strong negotiator of commercial contracts
4. Excellent business judgment — knowing when to say no, yes, or it depends
5. Customer-focused mentality, mindful that colleagues are your customers and you serve in that capacity
6. Understanding the value of and embracing cross-functional collaboration in a rapidly scaling environment
7. Not afraid to roll up your sleeves and support wherever needed
8. Embodiment of our core values: speed, soundness, and simplicity

Target Annual Compensation: $150-175k salary + equity

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

At Tines, we’re about trying new things and taking the leap. If you’re second-guessing your application, trust your gut and take the leap! Applying for a new job can be challenging, especially if considering a career pivot — but we value learning and growth, so don’t worry. We welcome diverse experiences, perspectives, and voices. We’d love to hear from you.

Tines provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to sex, race, color, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or other opinions, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age, or sexual orientation.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Legal

Industries

• Software Development