Senior Counsel, Tech Transactions (SaaS, AI & Cloud)

Relativity; Colorado; Hybrid; USD 183,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Relativity is seeking a Senior Counsel, Commercial Transactions to advise on a broad range of customer-facing and strategic commercial agreements, with a focus on SaaS, software licensing, cloud services, AI-enabled offerings, data processing, and partnerships.

The role collaborates with Sales, Product, Finance, Security, and Compliance to move deals forward, drive scalable contracting processes, and support growth while managing legal risk.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school.
• Active bar membership in good standing.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Intelligence, flexibility, creativity, diligence, responsiveness, and strong communications skills.
• Reasonable exposure to computer and software technology concepts.
• Solid proficiency with MS Office, Salesforce, and Contract Management Software.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer, procurement, and strategic commercial negotiations and transactions and technology-related legal work by drafting, reviewing and negotiating software, SaaS and hybrid, cloud services, AI-related offerings, and strategic partnership agreements.
• Be a reliable and trusted advisor to internal stakeholders by providing creative, strategic legal advice and business counsel on commercial, operational and strategic legal issues, as well as providing timely and accurate responses, and negotiating a challenging volume of contracts - with issues ranging from straight-forward to complex. Identify the issues, and then solve for them.
• Engage with our customers - make sure they feel listened to and heard, and above all, deliver.
• Suggest and work on improvements in processes, e.g. new standard forms or variations to enhance efficiency and align to business and product requirements.
• Exhibit agility and enjoyment working with AI legal technology tools by thriving on the efficiency they create. Know how to identify which ones work for what purposes, and why, and be willing and flexible about trying out new ones.
• Lead and support strategic pricing initiatives, pricing governance projects, and commercial model optimization efforts, while partnering with Finance, Global Business Operations, and business stakeholders
• Participate in our internal approval workflow system, prioritize contracts, and respond to questions from stakeholders and clients.
• Skilled knowledge working with AI tools (including legal technology tools), Microsoft O365, Salesforce and Ironclad.

Skills

Contract negotiations

Legal risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tools familiarity

Data privacy awareness

MS Office proficiency

Education

Juris Doctor

Active bar membership

Tools

Microsoft O365

Salesforce

Ironclad

Asana

Job description

Relativity is seeking a Senior Counsel, Commercial Transactions to advise on a broad range of customer-facing and strategic commercial agreements, with a focus on SaaS, software licensing, cloud services, AI-enabled offerings, data processing, and partnerships.

The role collaborates with Sales, Product, Finance, Security, and Compliance to move deals forward, drive scalable contracting processes, and support growth while managing legal risk.