Commercial Counsel
Commercial Counsel
At Productboard, we’re experiencing a period of incredible growth. To continue on this trajectory, we’re searching for a highly qualified Legal Counsel to work closely with our leadership team. We’re looking for a passionate legal professional that can help prioritize legal issues for Productboard, identify any potential legal issues in the company’s upcoming initiatives, and work on transactional matters on behalf of the business. The ideal candidate will be an attorney with extensive experience in corporate, commercial, and other strategic transactions. As the first in-house legal counsel at the company, you will have an opportunity to wear multiple hats and build out and streamline processes to support the legal needs of a rapidly scaling startup.
About The Team
We’re searching for an experienced commercial counsel who will partner closely with our rapidly growing Sales organization and provide contracting and transactional support across the team. On the Legal team at ProductBoard, you will be our second hire reporting to our Senior Legal Counsel.  This is an amazing opportunity to help build out the legal team at a fast-growing technology company. The ideal candidate is practical, comfortable making bold decisions, can operate independently, and is effective working cross-functionally in a rapid-growth, fast paced environment.Â
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About The Role
ProductBoard is looking for a motivated attorney to join our team. This individual will be responsible for day-to-day commercial sales contracts and other legal responsibilities including building the framework for how we negotiate and think about agreements. The ideal candidate will be able to independently draft, redline and negotiate complex SaaS agreements and other contracts.
What You’ll Do
- Independently negotiate complex outbound SaaS commercial agreements, including large, strategic deals integral to our business.
- Negotiate vendor and customer deals including, MSAs, NDAs, DPAs, and CCPA terms, and advise the business on risk.
- Become an expert in ProductBoard’s product platform, security, operations and offerings to offer practical and strategic counseling related to sales contracts.
- Ability to develop strong relationships and deliver quality communications to the Sales team and operate as a business partner to close deals.
- Possess a deep understanding of privacy and other regulations impacting the business, including CCPA and GDPR, and the ability to translate that understanding into redlines and articulate it in negotiations related to DPAs and commercial contracts discussions.
- Collaborating with the team to evolve the commercial legal function, by identifying opportunities to centralize knowledge and creating scalable processes to increase visibility and expedite communication, alignment, and execution.
What You'll Need
- 5+ years of experience in commercial transactional work, with extensive experience negotiating software/SaaS and enterprise B2B transactions.
- US attorney license (in good standing)
- Experience navigating privacy laws (including GDPR and CCPA) and security issues in a commercial negotiation context.
- Experience drafting, redlining and negotiating complex commercial agreements with a solution-oriented approach.
- Ability to operate autonomously, work collaboratively as a team player with sales and other internal business partners.
- Highly motivated, with the drive to work independently, manage and prioritize deals with deadlines.
- Experience working at a software/SaaS company or working with software/SaaS clients preferred.
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You can look forward to the following benefits:
đź’° Competitive compensation, stock options, company 401kÂ
đź“š A budget for your professional development and ongoing learningÂ
🏝 4 weeks of paid vacation and paid sick days
đź’› 1 Volunteer Day per year for you to help causes close to your heart
🍲 Lunch delivered to your home
🏋 Company contribution to gym and wellness membershipsÂ
đźš— Commuter benefits
🍹 Team events, such as happy hours, off-sites, and retreats abroadÂ
❤️ Company contribution and access to best-in-class health benefits and your own Headspace membership
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About Productboard
Productboard is a customer-centric product management platform that helps organizations get the right products to market, faster. More than 5,400 companies, including Microsoft, Zoom, 1-800-Contacts, and UiPath, use Productboard to understand what users need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around their roadmap.
With offices in San Francisco, Vancouver, Dublin, Brno and Prague, Productboard is backed by leading investors like Tiger Global Management, Dragoneer Investment Group, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Credo Ventures.Â
In January 2022, we closed our $125M Series D round, which put us into the Unicorn category of companies, with a valuation of $1.7B.
- Join at the golden startup age — established stability of a Unicorn with space for individual impact
- You’ll enjoy an exciting team atmosphere, building a whole new category of software
- You can help change the way that products are built all over the world
- We iterate quickly and decisions are fast. You’ll have a voice in what we do and see the impact of your work
- We are backed by top Silicon Valley investors, giving us access to capital, networks, mentors, and new markets
- We are recognized as one of the hottest tech startups on the market today, named by Forbes magazine and Business Insider as one of the best startup employers to bet your career on and are regularly recognized for our company culture
About our culture
Imagine working in a place where everything matters — most importantly, you. At Productboard, values aren’t just something we like to talk about, they’re something we live and breathe. We believe in creating a work environment where:
- People feel empowered, supported, and included
- Trust and transparency are built into the way we work
- Creativity, curiosity, and continuous improvement are encouraged and nurtured every day
Forming our company values was a group effort, with every employee allowed to contribute. From profit-sharing initiatives, like stock options, to open calendars and communication, we don’t waste time on politics or ego. We champion openness by sharing our goals, success, and failures.Â
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Join colleagues who love what they do and who are invested in their work environment and the future of the company. Help shape our company, culture, and product!
Check out our LinkedIn Life page, Instagram profile, and People of Productboard FB page or listen to our People of Productboard podcast for a real feel of what life is like at Productboard.
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Would you recommend working at Productboard as a great place to work? A simple question, but one that says it all. Are your employees satisfied and loyal? Are they promoters or detractors?
Asking this question to your employees you can find your net promoter score. Score around 30 is considered good and one above 50 is considered excellent. Companies like HubSpot who are heavily invested in company culture have an eNPS score of 83. At Productboard, we scored in our recent eNPS 93. And there are already 400 of us and we have offices all over the world.
Imagine how important the culture is to us when our eNPS is 93. How much leadership cares that we are happy and fully supported. Not only in the job but also in personal aspects of our lives.Â
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Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer and champion equity. It is our aim to help people from all backgrounds, cultures, and groups realize their full potential at Productboard. We do not tolerate any discrimination or harassment based upon gender identity, race, color, religion, age, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other biascovered by appropriate law. All aspects of employment, including hiring, training, promotion, and terminations, are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are committed to an inclusive hiring process and provide all candidates with equal opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. Togetherness is one of our core values, and our Diversity Council helps to ensure that we uphold the values of authenticity, humanity, and diversity to create an environment where every person matters. We are committed to leading by example to drive societal change.
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