Legal Counsel

Summary

Join Vercel's Legal team as a midlevel counsel, working closely with various business teams to draft and negotiate contracts. You will juggle multiple deals, strategize with account executives, and build processes to increase efficiency. A significant portion of your time will be dedicated to improving processes and programs to enhance efficiency and deal velocity. Depending on your interests, you may also work on product development projects. The role offers a hybrid or fully remote work option depending on location. This position reports to the Senior Director of Legal (Commercial).

Requirements

• Admitted in CA or NY, or registered as an inhouse counsel in those states, and in good standing
• 5+ years of legal experience, preferably including 2+ years of in-house commercial legal experience at a cloud based software technology company
• Strong understanding of cloud services and general SaaS, PaaS, IaaS business practices and relevant global regulatory requirements, with a willingness to dig deep into Vercel’s growing and evolving product offerings in order to build a solid foundation for providing support across all relevant lines of business
• Strong judgment and risk-assessment and mitigation skills with the ability to quickly make recommendations and decisions with imperfect facts, adapting legal requirements in creative and pragmatic ways to facilitate communication and understanding at all levels of the organization
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and cooperative team player, willing to take on additional responsibilities where no job is too small or too large
• Ability to confidently and independently manage and negotiate technology agreements with a wide variety of customers and technology and professional services vendors
• Ability to juggle a large quantity of fast-moving workstreams and manage a diverse array of stakeholders, with excellent instincts around what to prioritize
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with a proven track record of building new or improving existing programs or processes at other high-growth companies
• Excited to integrate AI into all our workflows and processes

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Legal point of contact for go-to-market and procurement deals, and provide practical day to day and strategic advice to relevant teams
• Participate in the negotiation of partnership, reseller, customer, and vendor agreements
• Work with cross-functional teams to build scalable processes to increase deal velocity
• Draft and maintain agreement templates
• Work on other special projects as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Used Vercel’s products and services
• Experience with AI tools or open source software
• Experience supporting channel and reseller partnerships
• Fluency in other languages

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including equity
• Inclusive Healthcare Package
• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills
• Flexible Time Off
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed