Senior Legal Associate
About Chargebee:
Chargebee provides a global subscription management platform that delivers fast time-to-value with exceptional service and support. Our mission is to empower businesses of all sizes to maximize their growth potential and revenue by adapting quickly and increasing customer loyalty.
Job Summary:
Chargebee is looking for a Senior Legal Associate that thrives in a high-volume, fast-paced, high-performing, and collaborative environment. Senior Legal Associate works collaboratively with Legal, Finance, Operations, Sales, IT, and Customer Success to get any contract related issues resolved. This position will assume important legal responsibilities handling a myriad of complex, non-cookie-cutter transactional deals involving the company’s expanding array of cloud-based services with major corporate clients. This position plays an integral role in the review, preparation and negotiation of contractual arrangements and assists stakeholders in all aspects of the same. At this level, the individual will likely have a high level of autonomy and typically must exercise their own judgment regarding issues within their area of expertise, subject to appropriate escalation and will routinely handle difficult and complex assignments. The ideal candidate is a highly self-motivated, business-minded attorney who can manage multiple projects and competing priorities comfortably, and brings extraordinary judgment and interpersonal skills to the role. This position is remote-based, but will require travel to the Company’s Bethesda, MD office 1-2 times per year (if the candidate is not locally based).
Reporting to the Director of Commercial Business & Legal Affairs, the Senior Legal Associate will be responsible for the following:
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Ensure in-depth review of all contracts and related documents is conducted so that all contractual terms and conditions comply with standard or approved business practices, corporate legal, finance and risk management requirements.
- Ensure contracts align with company policies, legal requirements, and industry regulations.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to clarify contract terms and resolve any issues.
- Provide legal advice and support on a wide range of corporate matters, including contracts, data privacy (including GDPR), and intellectual property.
- Draft, review, and negotiate various commercial agreements, including customer agreements, vendor contracts, license agreements, and partnership agreements.
- Partnering internally to streamline agreement review and processing and providing regular detailed status reports to internal departments.
- Conduct risk assessments to evaluate the potential impact of contract terms and propose strategies for risk mitigation.
- Help maintain and update our standard agreements, agreement playbooks, and internal documentation & training materials on our contract process.
- Advise Sales on pricing, standard and non-standard business terms and collaborate with impacted parties to identify acceptable options to facilitate deal closures.
Must Have:
- Minimum of 7 years of legal experience, with at least 2 years of relevant career experience with a SaaS company, ideally B2B.
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school and an active member in good standing of at least one state bar.
- Hands-on experience reviewing and negotiating a variety of contracts at a fast-paced technology (SaaS) company.
- Deep understanding of and experience handling matters related to data privacy laws, including GDPR and CCPA/CPRA.
- Ability to meet deadlines and work to SLAs, and to efficiently interact with various groups across the company.
- Availability to work and support end of quarter business requirements.
- Excellent negotiator with a strong problem solving skills mindset to conduct contract negotiations on a non-confrontational win-win basis.
Skills and Experience:
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
- Strong analytical, problem solving and negotiation skills, and demonstrated conflict management and change management skills required.
- Ability to be self-directed and work under minimal supervision.
- Must have demonstrated ability to:
- independently analyze and negotiate effectively and proactively apply innovative and creative solutions to problems;
- interact with specialized work teams;
- work under pressure with attention to detail;
- translate legal and financial verbiage into common understandable terms for internal and external customers;
- professionally and effectively communicate with all levels of employees within the company and external partner groups;
- make decisions, exercise resourcefulness and prioritize tasks to meet a variety of demands;
- produce written documents with clearly organized thoughts using proper sentence structure, punctuation and grammar;
- comprehend and make inferences from written material; and
- exercise independent initiative and judgment.
Benefits:
Want to know what it means to work for a company that genuinely cares about you? Check out just a few of the benefits we give our employees:
- Uncapped Leave Policy
- Annual 2-week block leave
- 4% 401k Match
- Multiple medical plans designed to fit you and your family’s needs
We are Globally Local
With a diverse team across four continents, and customers in over 60 countries, you get to work closely with a global perspective right from your own neighborhood.
We value Curiosity
We believe the next great idea might just be around the corner. Perhaps it’s that random thought you had ten minutes ago. We believe in creating an ecosystem that fosters a desire to seek out hard questions, and then figure out answers to them.
Customer! Customer! Customer!
Everything we do is driven towards enabling our customers’ growth. This means no matter what you do, you will always be adding real value to a real business problem. It’s a lot of responsibility, but also a lot of fun.