Senior Counsel

Summary

Join Expel's legal team and contribute to the growth of a successful business. You will be involved in building something amazing, using your understanding of business, leadership, and the law to promote creative solutions and build a positive culture. This role offers the opportunity to enhance and manage revenue contract processes, revise and maintain contract documents, support procurement activities, and partner with the security team to improve data privacy and information security. You will collaborate with various teams, including Sales, Finance, and Product, to optimize client service. Expel offers a supportive environment where you can shine and make a significant impact. The company values transparency, consistency, and respect, and seeks a candidate who shares these ideals.

Requirements

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills using colloquial language, and amazing active listening and conflict skills
• Deep knowledge of legal operations, processes, procedures, and metrics
• Detailed understanding of the commercial data privacy, and intellectual property issues commonly associated with fast-growing technology and “software as a service” companies
• Experience providing legal services and support to a company operating in the SaaS space
• 6-10 years of professional experience in relevant roles
• JD degree and admission to at least one state bar

Responsibilities

• Enhance and manage a revenue contract process that collaborates with other team members (Sales, Finance, Product) and optimizes for client service, with predictable SLAs for common legal support needs
• Revise and maintain Expel’s contract documents, ensuring we use customer-friendly “plain English” terms, and create a playbook of standard legal "plays"
• Support procurement activities, including vendor contract review, guidelines, and templates
• Partner with the Security Team to improve Expel’s data privacy and information security programs

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility and equity
• Unlimited PTO (which we model and encourage)
• Work location flexibility
• Up to 24 weeks of parental leave
• Really excellent health benefits