Senior Legal Counsel
Job Summary
Job Description
Mindtickle is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to join its legal team, bridging legal oversight with business strategy. The role involves negotiating complex commercial agreements, supporting enterprise SaaS transactions, mitigating legal risk, and enabling corporate initiatives like M&A, data privacy compliance, IP protection, and global expansion. This position is ideal for a tech-savvy legal professional in a fast-paced SaaS environment, working closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating SaaS licensing agreements, analyzing risks, improving legal processes, providing contract interpretations, and managing external counsel relationships.
Must have:
- 10+ years of professional experience
- SaaS licensing negotiation experience
- Knowledge of commercial and contract law
- Experience with privacy and data protection
- Ability to work independently and prioritize
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Team player, accountable and flexible
Good to have:
- In-house experience is a plus
- Solid knowledge of revenue recognition principles
- Passion for closing deals
Perks:
- Highly engaging and rewarding workplace
- Awesome perks
- Opportunities for growth
5 skills required
Job Details
Who we are
Mindtickle is the market-leading revenue productivity platform that combines on-the-job learning and deal execution to get more revenue per rep. Mindtickle is recognized as a market leader by top industry analysts and is ranked by G2 as the #1 sales onboarding and training product. We’re honoured to be recognized as a Leader in the first-ever Forrester Wave™: Revenue Enablement Platforms, Q3 2024!
Job Snapshot
We’re hiring a Senior Legal Counsel to join our expanding legal team, a pivotal role that bridges legal oversight with business strategy. You will be responsible for negotiating complex commercial agreements, supporting enterprise SaaS transactions, mitigating legal risk, and enabling strategic corporate initiatives such as M&A, data privacy compliance, IP protection, and global expansion. This is an excellent opportunity for a tech-savvy legal professional who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth SaaS environment and wants to work closely with executive leadership, revenue teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
What's in it for you?
- Reviews, drafts and negotiates outbound on-premise and SaaS licensing contracts and ancillary agreements, including professional services agreements
- Analyzes risks and strategic opportunities from a legal perspective with a view toward creating long term solutions
- Improve / develop standard form agreements and legal processes, as required
- Exercise good judgment in making legal and business decisions while providing contract interpretations and guidance to internal business teams to ensure compliance with contractual requirements
- Ensure timely review of contract modifications and communication of changes and notices to the business, finance and operations team
- Work closely with cross-functional teams (Sales, Legal, Finance and Operations) in order to resolve legal and business challenges
- Ensure that all required approvals are obtained prior to submission of contracts for execution
- In addition, to above, the Senior Legal Counsel would act as primary liaison for managing various external counsel relationships (labor, trademarks, IPR etc) and support ops team with corporate legal issues.
- Lead and mentor members of the legal team and Provide legal support for strategic initiatives, including M&A activity, strategic partnerships, and new market entries.
- Work closely with the Senior Leadership on various business objectives.
- Protect and manage Mindtickle’s intellectual property portfolio
- 10 + years of professional experience; in-house experience is a plus Practical experience in SaaS licensing negotiations with a solid knowledge of commercial and contract law and revenue recognition principles
- Comfort with handling topics such as privacy and data protection in the commercial contract context
- A passion for closing deals
- Ability to work on your own and prioritize multiple, often competing deliverables while managing expectations meeting deadlines
- Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to coordinate effectively and gain trust and confidence with personnel at many different levels
- Ability to work as a team member in a scalable, autonomous and accountable manner, demonstrating flexibility across deal types and time zones
Our culture & accolades
As an organization, it’s our priority to create a highly engaging and rewarding workplace. We offer tons of awesome perks and many opportunities for growth.
Our culture reflects our employee's globally diverse backgrounds along with our commitment to our customers, and each other, and a passion for excellence. We live up to our values, DAB, Delight your customers, Act as a Founder, and Better Together.
Mindtickle is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Your Right to Work - In compliance with applicable laws, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the respective work locations and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
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