Commercial Counsel

2 Hours ago • 10 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Commercial Counsel at Notion's Tokyo office, you will be responsible for building the commercial legal foundation. Your role involves providing day-to-day legal support for sales teams in Tokyo, Seoul, and Sydney, as well as other cross-functional teams. You will offer legal advice, negotiate commercial transactions, improve contracting processes, and develop/revise contract templates. The position requires applying knowledge of local and global laws, including privacy, data protection, and artificial intelligence laws. The responsibilities include managing SaaS agreements, advising sales and marketing teams on privacy regulations, and building relationships with internal and external clients. The role emphasizes adapting legal requirements creatively and pragmatically.
Must have:
  • Admitted to Japan Bar as a Bengoshi (Qualified Attorney).
  • 10+ years of commercial attorney experience.
  • 5+ years in-house commercial legal experience at a software technology company.
  • Ability to manage and negotiate high visibility SaaS agreements.
  • Excellent drafting and communication skills.
  • Experience advising on global and regional privacy regulations.
  • Professional fluency in Japanese and English.
Good to have:
  • CIPP/A, Certified Information Privacy Professional or equivalent.
  • Experience working with outside local counsel.
  • Experience supporting channel and reseller partnerships.
  • Familiarity using Notion.

Job Details

About Us:

As Commercial Counsel, you will have the chance to help build the commercial legal foundation by being Notion’s first attorney at our Tokyo office. In this role you will support our Tokyo, Seoul, and Sydney sales teams as well as our other cross-functional partner teams. We are looking for a team member who is excited about our passionate user base and is interested in joining a dedicated team that engages with our customers and vendors.

What You'll Do:

  • Have broad responsibility for providing practical day-to-day commercial legal support for our Seoul, Sydney, and Tokyo teams
  • Provide practical legal advice by applying knowledge of local and global laws, including privacy, data protection, and artificial intelligence laws
  • Negotiate and independently identify creative legal solutions for commercial transactions, including customer subscription agreements and data protection agreements
  • Identify and independently pursue improvements to our contracting processes
  • Develop and revise contract templates as necessary, based on changes in our product offerings, organization, and privacy laws
  • Have ownership of special projects to localize legal agreements

What We're Looking For:

  • Must be admitted to the Japan Bar or be approved as a Bengoshi (Qualified Attorney) or Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi (Registered Foreign Lawyer)
  • 10+ years of combined experience practicing as a commercial attorney within a law firm or software technology company, including 5+ years in-house commercial legal experience at a software technology company
  • Ability to confidently and independently manage and negotiate high visibility SaaS agreements with enterprise customers
  • Excellent drafting, written and verbal communication skills and ability to adapt legal requirements in balanced, creative and pragmatic ways to facilitate communication at all levels of the organization
  • Experience advising sales and marketing teams on global and regional privacy regulations (APPI, APA, GDPR, etc.) and the ability to incorporate evolving requirements into the customer facing agreements
  • Resilience, resourcefulness, the ability to directly interact and build meaningful relationships and trust with internal and external clients and leaders, and the ability to make recommendations and decisions with imperfect facts
  • Professional fluency in Japanese and English

Nice to Haves:

  • CIPP/A, Certified Information Privacy Professional or equivalent
  • Experience working with outside local counsel to support negotiations and special projects
  • Experience supporting channel and reseller partnerships
  • Familiarity using Notion

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

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