Senior Commercial Counsel

Join Marigold, a global software business, as a Senior Commercial Counsel. In this role, you will be a key legal partner to various cross-functional teams, leading the review, drafting, and negotiation of complex customer-facing revenue agreements and vendor agreements. You will work closely with Sales, Procurement, Finance, Security, Privacy, Product, and other teams to provide clear, timely guidance on acceptable risk positions and improve contracting practices. This is a senior individual-contributor role that requires strong experience in technology and SaaS contracting, as well as excellent drafting, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Lead the review, drafting, and negotiation of complex customer-facing revenue agreements and buy-side vendor agreements for a global software business.
• Partner closely with Sales and Revenue Operations to support strategic and high-value transactions, resolve contracting issues, and provide clear, timely guidance on acceptable risk positions.
• Develop and improve contract templates, playbooks, clause libraries, fallback positions, approval standards, and self-service resources; identify recurring negotiation issues and recommend practical process improvements that reduce cycle time and strengthen partnership between Legal and the business.

• You bring deep technology and SaaS contracting experience, exercise sound judgment, and communicate legal risk in practical business terms
• You are comfortable owning sophisticated negotiations, balancing competing priorities, and working independently within a lean, collaborative legal team
• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar
• Typically 5–7 years of relevant legal experience, including substantial in-house commercial contracting experience within a technology, SaaS, or similarly complex business environment
• Strong experience partnering directly with Sales on revenue-generating transactions and with business stakeholders on vendor and procurement matters
• Demonstrated experience independently negotiating sophisticated customer and vendor agreements involving material commercial, privacy, security, intellectual property, indemnification, limitation of liability, and regulatory terms
• Strong drafting, negotiation, project-management, and stakeholder-management skills, with consistent attention to detail, responsiveness, and comfort taking ownership with limited supervision
• Ability to evaluate legal and business risk, establish priorities, make sound decisions, and explain recommendations in concise, practical language
• Familiarity with global privacy requirements, data protection addenda, security reviews, or cross-border commercial matters. Marigold’s Data Protection Officer and other internal stakeholders will provide subject-matter guidance on privacy requirements