Sr Director, Global Head of Commercial Legal

Dropbox; United States; Remote; USD 250,000 - 339,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Global Head of Commercial Legal to lead their commercial legal team. This pivotal role involves setting the legal strategy, mentoring a global team, and engaging in complex negotiations. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in commercial law, a passion for innovation, and the ability to collaborate across various business teams. With a commitment to a Virtual First model, this forward-thinking company offers a dynamic environment where you can make a significant impact on the future of work while ensuring compliance and integrity in a rapidly evolving landscape.

Benefits

Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) plan with generous company match

Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off

Income Protection Plans

Business Travel Protection

Perks Allowance

Parental benefits

Access to global co-working spaces

Quarterly cell phone and internet allowance

Mental health and wellness benefits

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a commercial attorney.
• Expertise in drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a global team of attorneys and legal analysts.
• Develop innovative strategies for delivering commercial legal support.

Skills

Commercial Law

Contract Negotiation

Team Leadership

Client Service

Legal Technology

Education

J.D. Degree

Tools

Ironclad

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Sr Director, Global Head of Commercial Legal

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Company Description

Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself— Dropbox is ready for you.

Company Description

Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself— Dropbox is ready for you.

Team Description

The Dropbox Legal, Policy, Trust & Privacy Team safeguards our company to enable innovation while protecting our users, platform, and business. Our team navigates complex challenges at the intersection of technology and law, embracing agility to tackle the changing landscape while ensuring compliance and integrity. From governance to risk, compliance to public policy, we combine creative problem-solving with legal expertise to help our employees and users work securely, drive responsible growth, and shape the future of policy around technology. If you're excited about protecting trust in the digital age, join our Legal team. Areas of work include Governance, Risk, Compliance, Public Policy, Privacy, Intellectual Property, Commercial Contracts, Employment Law, and Regulatory Affairs.

Role Description

We’re looking for a Global Head of Commercial Legal to lead Dropbox’s commercial legal team. Reporting directly to the General Counsel, this leadership role offers an exciting opportunity to set commercial legal strategy for Dropbox and have direct, company-wide impact.

This role is for an experienced leader in the commercial legal space with a client-first mindset, and a passion for creativity, innovation and leveraging technology to run a world class commercial legal function in support of Dropbox’s business goals. You’ll lead a team of attorneys and professionals responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial contracts with Dropbox customers, business partners, and vendors around the world. Willing to act as both player and coach as needed, you'll be responsible for partnering with our sales, product, procurement, finance and other business teams to deliver efficient, scalable approaches to commercial matters.

The ideal candidate is a people-first, results-driven leader who is passionate about supporting the business and who thrives in solving legal, technology and business issues; and is a team player who is effective in collaborating with others.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a global team of attorneys and legal analysts supporting Dropbox’s sales, product, procurement, finance, and other business teams.
• Engage personally in complex deals and work collaboratively with various company teams to implement company initiatives.
• Develop and collaboratively implement an innovative strategy to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of delivering commercial legal support to Dropbox’s business.
• Partner with our LegalOps team to increase process automation, legal technology, and other efficiencies.
• Be an active and trusted legal leader to key stakeholders across the company.
  
  

Requirements

• Minimum of 10+ years as a practicing commercial attorney, including substantive experience in drafting and negotiating highly complex commercial agreements, including SaaS, licensing, channel partnerships and reseller/distributor agreements
• Experience leading a globally distributed team at a SaaS company
• Excellent manager who drives performance while building trusted relationships and empowering team members
• Ability to translate complex legal issues into clear and simple guidance, and to partner effectively across all levels of the company
• Passion for client service and efficiency
• Familiarity with Ironclad and other legal systems and tools
• High integrity, strong ethics, and an unflappable demeanor
• J.D. with strong academic credentials and demonstrated record of success as a lawyer
• Member in good standing of bar and (if applicable) in-house counsel registration
  
  

Compensation

US Zone 1
$250,300—$338,700 USD

US Zone 2
$225,300—$304,900 USD

US Zone 3
$200,300—$270,900 USD

The range(s) listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE (On-Target Earnings) for this role, subject to change.

Please note, OTE are for sales roles only.

Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Dropbox takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation. We target most new hire offers between the minimum up to the middle of the range.

Dropbox uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current US Zone locations are as follows:

• US Zone 1: San Francisco metro, New York City metro, or Seattle metro
• US Zone 2: Austin (TX) metro, Chicago metro, California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Washington DC metro, and West Virginia (DC metro)
• US Zone 3: All other US locations
  
  

Dropbox is a Virtual First company and is open to hiring candidates in all authorized locations.

Benefits

Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) plan with a generous company match and immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Volunteer Time Off, and more, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh
• Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance
• Business Travel Protection: Travel medical and accident insurance
• Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food and groceries, and much more
• Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Child and Adult Care, Day Care FSA, Fertility Benefits, Adoption and Surrogacy Support, and Lactation Support
• Access to over 10,000 global co-working spaces through Gable.tomaking it easy to book flexible workspaces for collaboration or individual work
• Quarterly Cell phone and internet allowance
• Mental health and wellness benefits
• Disability and neurodivergence support benefits
  
  

Additional benefit details are available upon request.

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, enABLE, TODOS (Latinx), Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, and Women at Dropbox.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Legal

• Industries

  Software Development, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Technology, Information and Internet

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