Senior Director and Associate General Counsel, Head of Commercial

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Senior Director and Associate General Counsel, Head of Commercial. This role will be pivotal in managing the day-to-day operations of our commercial legal function, supporting the Go-To-Market (GTM) organization on all customer terms and agreements, and supporting the product team on current and new platform offerings. This role will also oversee vendor contract review and onboarding processes in partnership with IT and InfoSec.

What You'll Do:

• Strategic Leadership:
• Shape and drive legal strategies that align with the company's long-term goals and operational readiness.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the executive team, providing strategic legal counsel to support business growth and compliance.
• Lead initiatives to align legal frameworks with the company's scaling objectives.
• Risk Management:
• Develop and implement proactive risk mitigation strategies and compliance frameworks.
• Monitor emerging legal trends and advise on necessary adjustments to maintain compliance while enabling innovation.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
• Foster strong relationships across departments, including GTM, IT, InfoSec, Finance, HR, and Product teams.
• Ensure compliance and support product and engineering teams on platform offerings.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to align legal considerations with business operations.
• Process Improvement:
• Lead initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and streamline contract management.
• Implement scalable processes to support the company's growth and operational readiness.
• Training and Development:
• Develop and conduct comprehensive legal training programs to promote adoption of key commercial processes across the organization.
• Mentor and develop the commercial legal team in preparation for growth and scale.
• Industry-Specific Expertise:
• Navigate complex legal issues and provide innovative solutions aligned with e-learning and SaaS industry standards.
• Support privacy and compliance-related legal issues across the business.

What You Should Have:

• J.D. from an accredited law school.
• Active license to practice law in the United States.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in commercial law, with a focus on technology or software industries.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience as in-house counsel.
• Proven leadership experience managing and developing a high-performing legal team.
• Strong understanding of GDPR, CCPA, and the EU AI Act.
• Experience in SaaS, e-learning, or technology industries preferred.
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across departments and with senior leadership.

About us
Articulate Global, LLC, is the leading SaaS provider of creator platforms for online workplace training. Founded by Adam Schwartz in 2002, Articulate provides creator tools and services that make it simple for enterprises and SMBs to develop, deliver, and analyze online workplace training that’s engaging and effective.  Increasingly, organizations must reskill employees for ever-changing remote and hybrid work environments, create learning cultures that attract and retain employees in a tight labor market, and use training to build more equitable, empowering, and engaging workplaces. Articulate helps organizations address these critical business needs with its creator platform for workplace training. Articulate 360—a suite of creator tools for online courses—was named the 7th most-loved product in the world by TrustRadius in 2021. And Rise—an all-in-one online training system that makes online training easy to create, enjoyable to take, and simple to manage—is the first creator platform for SMBs and departments within the enterprise. Articulate has more than 118,000 customers in 170 countries and counts all 100 of the Fortune 100 companies as customers.
Named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces 2022 and a leader in building a human-centered organization, Articulate is guided by a commitment to provide the best value to customers, do right by employees, and create an equitable, empowering workplace for all. As a human-centered organization, we honor people’s humanity knowing that each person’s unique history, vulnerabilities, and social location inform how we show up with one another. We embrace our connectedness, aware that what we do and say impacts others. We give each other grace because we are all works in progress, learning and evolving every day. And we take responsibility for ourselves and are serious about our accountability to