Associate Commercial Counsel

FloQast is seeking an Associate Commercial Counsel to support our day to day legal affairs at a growth-stage, venture-backed SaaS Company. You’ll be a crucial player in our in-house Legal team, joining and reporting directly to our Deputy General Counsel as we collaborate to continue to build out our growing team.  Providing strategic legal advice across the entire Company, you’ll balance legal needs with Company values and objectives.  This is an opportunity with a lot of potential for growth within the organization.
The ideal successful candidate will be able to handle multiple areas of responsibilities, autonomously demonstrating excellent critical judgment with a hands-on approach - including handling all elements of contract negotiation from redlining to calls with third-party legal counsel. This is a great opportunity to work on a broad range of projects across multiple departments and play a key role in supporting the Company’s rapid growth. 
*Visa sponsorship is NOT available at this time
West Coast Preferred

What You'll Do:

• Support the Sales, Business Development, Procurement and Marketing teams with commercial and contractual matters. You’ll draft, review and negotiate a wide variety of agreements including subscription agreements, professional services agreements, partnership agreements, and marketing agreements as well as manage the process behind vendor agreements.   
• Work with internal clients to advise on negotiation strategy and ensure the contemplated legal terms will meet business needs over the long term.
• Work with stakeholders in the business to analyze, manage, and mitigate risk.
• Work closely with the compliance team to develop data privacy and information security strategies.
• Develop and improve our library of form agreements and templates to comply with changes in law and changes in the market.
• Collaborate with other members of the Legal Team to improve standard processes for contracting and complying with contractual obligations.
• Design and implement additional staff training around areas that interest you.
• Advance a culture of information security by protecting customer and user information and identifying opportunities to strengthen that culture further.
• Collaborate with other members of the legal team and internal stakeholders on ad-hoc projects.
• Perform other duties or special projects as needed.

What You'll Bring:

• Minimum 2 Years’ experience with commercial transactions.
• Basic understanding of commercial SaaS licensing model legal documents  
• Admission to and in good standing with any state bar (or equivalent with in house waiver/registration). 

Nice-to-Haves

• Earned a law degree somewhere (fancy schools are helpful; ultimately, we're all about demonstrated skills, not degree & pedigree).  
• 2+ Years at a law firm or at a tech company.
• Expertise in data privacy and security laws and best practices.
• Demonstrably shined wherever you've been.
• Worked in a high-stakes environment.
• Flexible and adaptable in a quickly changing, high-growth Company.
• Expert communicator, verbally and in writing, who is capable of explaining complicated topics to those without legal training.
• Critical thinker: skilled at problem solving and you take a pragmatic, business-minded approach to legal analyses and risk assessments.
• West Coast Preferred

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The base pay range for this position is $150,000 - $180,000.  Compensation is not limited to base salary. FloQast values our Total Rewards, and offers a competitive and elaborate Benefits Package including, but not limited to, Medical, Dental, Vision, Family Forming benefits, Life & Disability Insurance, Unlimited Vacation, and participation in our Employee Stock Program. FloQast reserves the right to amend, change, alter, and revise pay ranges and benefits offerings at any time. All applicants acknowledge that by applying to this position you understand that this specific pay range is contingent upon meeting the qualifications and requirements of the role, and for the successful completion of the interview selection and process. It is at the Company's discretion to determine what pay is provided to a candidate within the range associated with the role.
About FloQast    www.floqast.comFloQast is the leader in accounting workflow automation created by accountants for accountants. By automating and modernizing everyday accounting workflows, FloQast enables accountants to work better together and perform their tasks with greater efficiency and accuracy. The cloud-based, AI-enhanced software is trusted by more than 2,500 accounting teams, including those at Snowflake, Kodiak, Instacart, Zoom, and The Golden State Warriors - and still growing! We aspire to