Director, Commercial Legal

Remote - Referral Board

13h•Remote

About The Position

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work! What this job can offer you This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space. We're seeking a talented and seasoned commercial contract lawyer with extensive experience in sales, partnership, and procurement transactions in HR Tech and/or SaaS—as well as leading and guiding a team of up-and-coming commercial lawyers. You should be passionate about our team's mission, which is: to deliver pragmatic and innovative legal solutions for Remote's products and stakeholders while protecting Remote from unacceptable risk. Remote's well-established Legal team is a group of friendly, talented, highly motivated lawyers from many different countries, bringing a wealth of diverse experience. As Remote expands its global footprint, each new country brings unique legal challenges. The Legal Team ensures the legal soundness of our business models, manages contractual agreements with clients and their staff (the employees we hire under our "Employer of Record" service—our "external employees"), and oversees data protection compliance, among other areas. This is a director-level role managing approximately 3-5 reports. Key priorities for this role include: Serving as the directly responsible individual (DRI) for Commercial Legal and leading the team to provide excellent legal support for sales, partnership, and vendor contract reviews and negotiations. Ensure sufficient and timely support at month-end and quarter-end. Empowering GTM teams to go upmarket and close enterprise-level customers by upgrading commercial terms and templates, simplifying sales contracting processes, and proactively training GTM teams in close collaboration with Legal and GTM stakeholders. Providing strategic support to Partnership teams on deal negotiations and bespoke terms drafting that captures business intent while maintaining commerciality for timely deal closure. Collaborating with revenue operations and legal operations teams to automate workflows and leverage AI for increased contracting efficiency. Maintain the CLM system and relevant processes to ensure stakeholder synergy, and capture valuable commercial contracting metrics to inform better decision-making by GTM and Finance stakeholders.

Requirements

Qualified lawyer in your location (mandatory)
Technically an excellent commercial contracts lawyer. (Be prepared to give examples of difficult negotiations and specific legal points you’ve tackled.)
Previous in-house experience in similar roles
Passionate about working for a tech scale-up, specifically in HR-tech
Outstanding team leader who mentors, motivates, and brings people together
Excellent ability to build trusted relationships with key stakeholders in a fully remote environment.
Excited about using AI to work smarter, faster, and more creatively.
Solves problems rather than just escalating them
Fearless to speak your mind, break things, and learn from mistakes
Low ego
Excellent analytical and organizational skills
Ability to multi-task and switch between projects on short notice
Proficiency in—or demonstrated ability to learn—Remote's tech stack, including communication application (Slack), contract management system (Coupa), documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive, etc.), and task management system (Notion)
Fluent in written and spoken English

Nice To Haves

Remote work experience is not required but considered a plus

Responsibilities

Guide, mentor, and nurture a team, including proactively providing timely and constructive feedback to team members
Build strategic relationships with GTM stakeholders and increase Legal's influence and voice in important discussions about the company's commercial strategies
Identify company-wide legal issues and work with key internal stakeholders and external partners to implement efficient and effective solutions
Take on a leadership role in cross-team legal projects, collaborating with Remoters from other teams (GTM, Tax, Finance, Product, etc.) and the Legal Team to ensure projects are completed on time with high-quality deliverables
Institute best practices and lead training to help the Legal Team function more efficiently, expand knowledge base and expertise, and make legal advice easier to access and use for both other Remoters and clients
Seek to improve team efficiencies through close collaborations with other support teams such as Legal Ops and Revenue Ops
Manage external local counsel as needed
Assist with other legal, advisory, regulatory, and compliance work as required