Senior Commercial Counsel

From Fivetran's founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We're proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

**About the Role**

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

**Technologies You'll Use**
- Ironclad, SimpleLegal,
- Word, GSuite, Slack

**What You'll Do**
- Drafting and negotiation of customer agreements including: master subscription agreements, NDAs, DPAs, BAAs, professional services agreements, amendments, exhibits, and other types of commercial agreements.
- Drafting and negotiation of partner agreements including: reseller, distribution, referral, MSP, tech partner, professional services.
- Partner with cross-functional team members to identify and address contract matters/provisions impacting various departments including Security, Privacy, Revenue, Support, Professional Services, and other relevant departments to ensure contracts meet Fivetran policies and processes.
- Provide legal counsel and serve as a strategic business partner to internal clients including sales leadership.
- Advising on and implementing best practices across the Commercial Legal function, including fallback positions on heavily negotiated topics and organizational and procedural efficiencies.
- Responsibility for a wide range of key go-to-market projects across the department.

**Skills We're Looking For**
- 8+ years experience as a lead attorney negotiating and drafting B2B SaaS and on-premise software agreements with domestic and international enterprise customers.
- Deep experience and familiarity of SaaS and on-premise software subscription and licensing structures as well as related data privacy and security matters.
- Prior relevant in-house experience required at both private and publicly traded companies, preferably in hyper-growth stage company(s).
- Experience supporting international go-to-market sales efforts. Experience supporting EMEA based sales teams preferred but not required.
- Team orientation first and foremost, with leadership skills that contribute to maintaining a positive (and fun) team and company culture.
- Excellent judgment and integrity.
- Ability to work independently and closely manage multiple outside counsel across various time zones and deadlines, with the judgment to know when to outsource to outside counsel versus make a call internally.
- Curiosity that drives a desire to learn new contexts and communication styles; being self-motivated, creative and scrappy.
- Comfort with fast-paced environments and openness to change.
- Strong academic background and legal degree from a relevant university is strongly preferred.
- Licensed to practice law in Germany, including concluding your Rechtsreferendariat.
- Verbal and written fluency in German and English

**Bonus Skills**
- CIPP (US or EU) certification is a plus.
- Fluency in additional language(s)

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**Perks and Benefits**
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance**:

- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Recharge, reenergize, and pursue personal and professional goals with a 30 day paid leave after 5 years
- _may vary by country - please reach out to your recruiter for more information_

To learn more about Fivetran's benefits by region - click here.

We're honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we're proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.

Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.

To learn more about Fivetran's culture and what it's like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.