United Kingdom Commercial Counsel

4 Months ago • 4 Years + • Legal

Job Summary

Job Description

The United Kingdom Commercial Counsel at AlphaSense will draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts, focusing on revenue-generating customer agreements. This includes data privacy elements, adhering to GDPR, CCPA, and other global regulations. The role involves developing and maintaining AlphaSense's privacy compliance function, collaborating with sales, marketing, and product teams. Responsibilities also include advising on legal and business strategies to ensure agreement alignment with company policies and creating playbooks for privacy and data protection. The position requires strong negotiation skills and effective communication across different functional groups and time zones. The role can be based in London or remotely within the UK.
Must have:
  • UK qualified lawyer
  • 4+ years commercial contract experience
  • Experience with software/technology agreements
  • Data privacy expertise (GDPR, CCPA)
  • Strong negotiation & communication skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with contract management systems
  • Information security knowledge
  • Intellectual property experience
  • Financial services background

Job Details

Location: London

Reports to: VP, Legal

About AlphaSense:

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. Our platform is trusted by over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.

Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with over 1,500 people across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. Come Join Us!

About the Team:

AlphaSense has a great opportunity for a Commercial Counsel to join our growing legal team. Legal is a critical function in supporting the company’s fast-paced environment and acts as a true business partner to all of our leaders across the organization. We work hand-in-hand with cross-functional teams to provide solutions to enable and empower the company to achieve substantial growth targets while managing risk and protecting our business.

About the Role: 

This role can either be based in our London, United Kingdom office or remotely in the United Kingdom. The Commercial Counsel will be primarily responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial contracts, including the revenue-generating contracts with our customers, including data privacy elements and implications of such agreements and in accordance with established parameters.  The Counsel will also assist in developing and maintaining the AlphaSense privacy compliance function. The Commercial Counsel will report to AlphaSense’s VP of Legal but will partner with all levels and functions of the business, including Sales, Marketing, Information Security, Product, and Content, among others, to help AlphaSense achieve its high-growth goals. This role is essential to our growth and will have an immediate impact in our dynamic, fast-paced culture.

What You’ll Do: 

  • Draft and review data privacy agreements, addenda, and amendments;
  • Advise on global privacy and data protection requirements, including the GDPR, U.S. state privacy laws such as the CCPA, and other global privacy laws and regulations; 
  • Draft and review the company’s commercial contracts and provide general transactional support across the organization with a heavy emphasis on sales;
  • Remain informed of the shifting legal landscape relating to applicable laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact commercial agreements;
  • Help create and enhance playbooks, particularly concerning privacy and data protection, to establish company parameters to scale the legal function as the company grows;
  • Work effectively in a dynamic environment across different functional groups and time zones;
  • Provide legal and strategic business advice to ensure agreements are consistent with playbooks, internal policies, and processes; and
  • Support the AlphaSense legal team on corporate and general legal matters as needed.

Who You Are:

  • Fully qualified lawyer and admitted to practice law in the U.K.;
  • Minimum of 4+ years’ experience with drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial software and technology subscription agreements and either in-house or with a nationally recognized law firm (or a combination of the two);
  • Proven second nature ability to review and negotiate commercial contracts including Master Services Agreements, Services Agreements, SOWs, Service Level Agreements, Orders Forms, NDAs; etc.;
  • Superior business acumen with an unrivaled commitment and deep-seated need to provide responsive client service to our teams and get things done; approaches responsibilities with a business-friendly and pragmatic mindset while maintaining a commensurate balance of legal risk;
  • Energetic, authentic, and friendly with a great sense of humor; capable of displaying strong negotiation skills and the ability to support difficult positions in a firm and patient manner;
  • Effective communicator with the ability to interact with both internal and external professionals of all types and backgrounds; and
  • Experience with contract management systems, information security, intellectual property, and/or financial services is a plus.

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

 

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