Senior Corporate Counsel, Commercial

Summary

Join Airtable's Legal team as a Sr. Corporate Counsel and play a key role in driving contracting processes and resolving legal and business challenges. You will review, negotiate, and close commercial agreements; create and execute contracting strategies; build and maintain contracting resources; leverage AI to enhance efficiency; advise business partners on legal matters; ensure compliance; create and deliver training; and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This position requires a JD or equivalent, 7+ years of experience as a practicing attorney (including in-house experience with a SaaS or technology company), and a passion for commercial law and technology agreements. Experience with AI and its application in legal practice is highly valued. The ideal candidate is flexible, resourceful, solution-oriented, a clear communicator, and skilled at building relationships. Compensation includes a competitive base salary, benefits, restricted stock units, and potential incentive compensation.

Requirements

• You have a JD or foreign equivalent with membership in at least one state bar
• You have at least 7 years’ experience as a practicing attorney, including in-house experience with a SaaS or other technology company
• You love being a commercial lawyer and have strong experience with technology agreements
• You’re able to draft documents, policies, emails, and anything else in a precise and digestible manner
• You’re flexible, resourceful, and solution-oriented. You are excited to help a growing company define its legal identity, to build process and repeatability where there is little. You’re both comfortable saying you don’t have the answer, and confident that you can then go find it
• You are able to execute, prioritize, and stay focused in an environment that is expanding and evolving
• You have high integrity and excellent judgment, are a clear and thoughtful communicator, and are able to be both strategic and detail-oriented
• You’re skilled at building authentic relationships with all kinds of people across many functional teams

Responsibilities

• Review, negotiate, and close commercial agreements, including software subscription agreements, data processing agreements, data security agreements, and NDAs
• Create and execute on contracting strategies that optimize for our business objectives and decrease time to value
• Help build and maintain contracting playbooks, contract templates and clause libraries, legal process wikis, and other tools to help scale the legal function
• Drive projects to leverage AI to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of commercial legal support
• Advise business partners on a range of commercial legal issues and risks
• Help ensure Airtable’s commercial relationships comply with applicable laws and regulations
• Create and deliver training to help educate internal business partners
• Collaborate with teams across Airtable, including sales, revenue operations, product, finance, and procurement

Preferred Qualifications

You are curious about AI and its potential to transform legal practice, have experience experimenting with AI technologies, and have helped develop AI-powered workflows to solve legal challenges

Benefits

• Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits, restricted stock units, and may include incentive compensation
• For work locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, New York City, and Los Angeles, the base salary range for this role is: $248,800 — $322,900 USD
• For all other work locations (including remote), the base salary range for this role is: $224,600 — $291,000 USD