Strategic Commercial Contracts Counsel

Socure; Incline Village (NV); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Socure is seeking a Commercial Counsel to advise on a broad range of commercial matters, including SaaS, licensing, and vendor agreements. You will partner with Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering to structure deals, manage risk, and ensure compliance.

You will become an expert on Socure's products and business models, identifying pragmatic risk-mitigation solutions and helping bring new offerings to market. Experience with AI-assisted drafting is a plus in daily workflows.

Qualifications

• JD from an accredited law school and active Bar membership in good standing.
• 4-8 years of post-JD experience independently negotiating SaaS, technology, licensing, partner, and vendor agreements with minimal oversight.
• Working knowledge of consumer data privacy laws relevant to commercial contracting (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, GLBA, FCRA) and how they shape customer-facing data terms.

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

Contract negotiation

Regulatory compliance

AI-assisted drafting

Cross-functional collaboration

Project ownership

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

Socure is seeking a Commercial Counsel to advise on a broad range of commercial matters, including SaaS, licensing, and vendor agreements. You will partner with Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering to structure deals, manage risk, and ensure compliance.

You will become an expert on Socure's products and business models, identifying pragmatic risk-mitigation solutions and helping bring new offerings to market. Experience with AI-assisted drafting is a plus in daily workflows.