Senior Commercial Attorney

Elevate; United States; À distance; USD 90 000 - 103 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

Elevate is seeking a Senior Commercial Attorney for our Contracts - Managed Services team in the United States. This remote-based, part-time role focuses on drafting, reviewing, redlining, and negotiating contracts, and improving our customer’s contractual infrastructure.

You will work with the customer’s in-house team and Elevate colleagues to handle software license and SaaS agreements, procurement docs, and related transactions, ensuring risk is managed and processes are efficient.

Qualifications

• JD required and licensed to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Experience with commercial transactional support including services and SaaS agreements.
• Strong writing, redlining, and verbal communication skills.

Responsabilités

• Draft, review, redline, and negotiate contracts and other transactional documents.
• Review contracts against standards and negotiate alternatives using templates and tools.
• Update or draft playbooks and templates as needed.
• Research and analyze commercial law areas relevant to the customer’s business and prepare position statements.
• Understand term positions and use CLM tools within provided playbooks.

Connaissances

Commercial contracts

SaaS agreements

Software licenses

Legal research

Formation

JD

Outils

CLM software

MS Office

Description du poste

Elevate is recruiting a Senior Commercial Attorney in the US for our Contracts - Managed Services team. The Senior Commercial Attorney will be working closely with our customer’s in-house legal department and their internal business partners. The attorney will review, redline and negotiate contracts and participate on projects to improve our customer’s contractual infrastructure, workflow, and processes. The attorney will work independently on assigned matters but will also work collaboratively with other members of the Elevate team as well as our customer’s in house team.

This role is part-time up to 20 hours per week.

Specifically, the Senior Commercial Attorney will

• Draft, review, redline, negotiate various customer and third-party contracts and other transactional documents.
• Review contracts against established standards and negotiate acceptable alternatives, working from templates and tools that will be available to you.
• Compare contracts and highlight differences and similarities in template formats.
• Facilitate escalation of unresolved issues, approval and signature.
• Update or draft playbooks and templates, as needed.
• Research and analyze areas of commercial law as relevant to the customer’s business and prospects and prepare position statements for different audiences.
• Quickly understand term positions and fallbacks in a provided playbook, learn how to use CLM tools and adapt to new processes.

Experience

• 5-7 years of experience with commercial transactional support, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, particularly services and supply agreements, software license and SAAS agreements, procurement and other inbound agreements.
• Experience conducting simple to complex legal research and memorandum drafting.
• Excellent track record in previous client support/customer service engagements.
• Prior proven experience in independently negotiating and finalizing Software License Agreements and SaaS Agreements.

Skills for Success

• Proven ability to work in a customer-centric, deadline driven and fast paced environment.
• Able to assess risk with contractual terms, so you understand when a term needs to be escalated or requires additional approvals, as it is beyond the guidelines agreed to with the customer.
• Work effectively from a home office or remote work environment.
• Dependable, responsive, and committed to producing high quality work.
• Flexible team player, and willing to pitch in on matters and projects to better serve our customers, even if the work falls outside your normal scope of duties.
• Excellent writing, redlining and verbal communication skills, particularly depicting complex ideas clearly and concisely.
• Excellent listening and communication skills and the judgment to know which skill to use in each setting.
• Ability to work independently, and collaboratively with teammates across multiple geographies.

Technical Skills

• Excellent MS Office skills - capable of preparing PowerPoint, Word, and Excel files without support.
• Proficient in using CLM software.

Qualifications

• JD required.
• Licensed to practice law and in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

Compensation

• The pay rate for this remote-based temporary role is $65-75/hour.

About Us

Elevate is an expert-led, AI-powered global law company with over 2,200 employees. We are unique in our ability to provide a complete range of software, consulting, and services to help law departments and law firms improve efficiency, quality, and business outcomes. Our most recent achievements and distinctions include:

• Certified as a Great Place to Work® 2026 across the US, UK, India, Philippines, and Poland for the second consecutive year
• Awarded the 2026 Workplace Honour for Culture, Belonging & Community
• Certified as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces® for Development 2025 by Great Place to Work®
• For the eleventh consecutive year (2026), Chambers and Partners ranked Elevate a Band 1 global services provider across all categories (Contract Lifecycle Management, Litigation Services, Flexible Legal Staffing, Intellectual Property Management, and LawTech Workflow Management & Service Platforms) and as an ALSP in APAC
• Newsweek named Elevate one of ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces in Professional Services’ for 2025 and previously awarded it the highest rating in the ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity’ and ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces for 2024’ lists
• For the fourth year in a row, Elevate’s integrated law firm is designated as a top law firm in Commercial Litigation in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers/US News & World Report Best Law Firms
• Elevate named a top ALSP in Asia by Thomson Reuters’ Asian Legal Business in 2024
• Winner, Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, and 2016

All qualified applicants will be considered for employment and will be treated equally during the process, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. protected by law.