Commercial Counsel Americas (Mexico Remote)

Title: Commercial Counsel Americas

Location: Mexico Remote

Department: Legal and Business Affairs

Job Overview:

Company Description

Join a dynamic and innovative leader in the SAAS sector, committed to enhancing learning integrity and fostering critical thinking in a rapidly evolving world. For over 25 years, we have partnered with clients to create impactful solutions driven by our mission.

Embrace a remote-first culture that prioritizes your well-being and empowers you to work with purpose and accountability. We believe in a supportive environment where your contributions matter and where a diverse community of colleagues unites around a common goal.

Join a global team with members in over 35 countries, including the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to grow, innovate, and be part of something bigger. Apply now and take the next step toward a fulfilling career that truly makes a difference!

Position Summary

This position will report to the VP, Deputy General Counsel and will be a key member of the company’s legal team. The attorney will assist with critical legal support and guidance on commercial, transactional, IP, employment, and real estate matters in North America and LATAM with a focus on supporting the legal aspects of the entire contract lifecycle. This position will also collaborate with other legal and business affairs team members on contracts and other matters.

The successful candidate will be a dynamic, practical, technology-savvy attorney with a deep, foundational expertise in business transactions, technology and privacy, particularly domestic and international consumer data protection legislation. The successful candidate must be comfortable balancing legal risks and business strategy; if you are not comfortable in this calibration zone, this is not the right opportunity for you. You must be a team player, with the ability to distill and apply legal and commercial requirements, solution-oriented, and focused on the pursuit of excellence in providing legal advice.

Prior in-house experience at a tech company or SAAS company with a significant volume of contracting is required.

What You’ll Do:

Among the primary responsibilities of the position are:

• Provide legal support for North American and LATAM-based commercial matters, agreements, and relationships. This will include reviewing, drafting, and managing SaaS/cloud agreements, strategic partnership agreements, services agreements, statements of work, data processing agreements, order forms, and vendor and procurement agreements, as well as a variety of other agreements. This support will range from basic support using standard terms and conditions to complicated engagements with significant international counterparties.
• Support the regional sales team in Tenders/RFP processes, particularly with legal review of agreements, responses and related documentation.
• Monitor and remain current on changes to global privacy, security and compliance laws, regulatory enforcement and industry landscape to stay ahead of evolutions, trends and best practices to properly advise on contract language.
• Develop, recommend and update standard/recommended legal language for internal client use.
• Work with multiple department leaders to address business, financial, insurance, and legal terms in contracts with customers, vendors, and suppliers.
• Negotiate effectively and constructively with internal partners, external clients, and other third parties.
• Provide practical and understandable analysis and counsel on various legal issues and agreements, including commercial transactions, data, privacy, intellectual property, and labor and employment matters.
• Support, analyze, and counsel on various compliance matters.
• Provide governance on contract approval and execution to ensure deals are closed appropriately.
• Where required, support the development of new trading territories in line with local regulations and commercial practices.
• Assist with Compliance due diligence, policies and training, including Code of Conduct and Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption policies.

Requirements

• J.D. degree from an ABA accredited US law school and be an active member in good standing of a state bar.
• 5+ years’ experience in a law firm or in-house corporate department.
• 5+ years’ experience at a SAAS or tech company with a significant volume of contracting.
• Experience negotiating contracts, including SaaS, Cloud agreements, Partnership agreements, data processing, vendor, and procurement.
• Good working knowledge of privacy, security and compliance.
• Transactional experience - loans, mergers and acquisitions, working knowledge in business and finance.
• Experience with insurance, IP(intellectual property), and labour and employment matters.
• Plus - government procurement contracting.
• Plus - global company experience.
• Creative and solution-oriented, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Tech-savvy with a willingness to learn more.
• Comfortable with taking initiative and leading projects.
• Excellent judgment and analytical skills with the ability to strategically assess and mitigate risk, while achieving business goals.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills.
• Collaborative team player who subscribes to the philosophy that there is no “I” in team; a can-do attitude, with a willingness to “roll up your sleeves” to get the job; dedicated worker who is responsive and provides timely advice.