Legal Counsel

Summary

Join our team at Soda as we're looking for a Legal Counsel to bring formal legal training and experience in-house. As our Legal Counsel, you'll work alongside our Head of Operations and external lawyers to ensure that Soda's interests are protected while balancing commercial ambitions.

Requirements

• Strong talent at understanding what’s important to the counterparty in a negotiation
• Formulating a compromise proposal that addresses the underlying concern of the customer but protects Soda’s interest
• Calm, friendly demeanour in customer-facing negotiations
• Able to cope with irregular workloads and sudden short deadlines
• Strong at structuring and managing a lot of disparate, concurrent tasks - making sure nothing drops off the radar
• A capacity to manage internal stakeholders
• Fluency in English equivalent to native speaker (in grammar, vocabulary and writing)
• Law degree
• Experience with hands-on legal work (in particular, commercial contract review - experience with SaaS contracts specifically is a plus)

Responsibilities

• Commercial contracting with prospects
• Reviewing and redlining commercial contracts from prospective customers Including internal syncing on: Commercial judgement calls (e.g. clauses capping price increases, payment terms, …) - syncing with sales/finance
• Liability judgement calls (what kind of liabilities are we willing to accept in the context of this deal) - syncing with the CEO for exceptions
• SLA and infosec judgement calls - syncing with head of customer engineering and head of engineering
• Participate in calls with prospects, walking through redlines and negotiating compromise language with their legal counsel
• Reviewing NDAs
• Working with external counsel for any specialty areas we can’t take on ourselves (e.g. specific regulation for customers in heavily regulated industries)
• Make sure our standard MSA, NDA and online T&Cs are kept up to date, in line with any changes in the product, our pricing or our GTM strategy
• Amendments with existing customers Draft amendments to existing contracts where necessary Changes in pricing model
• Changes due to new features requiring additional legal coverage (e.g. AI features with third parties)
• Review contracts with partners (lead gen, implementation partners, resellers)
• Review contracts with suppliers
• Review employment contracts
• Maintain our legal folder