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Commercial and Product Counsel

With our career opportunities we offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, wellness program, paid parental leave, professional development, and a fully stocked kitchen.

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As Commercial and Product Counsel at Everlaw, you will represent Legal in two critical areas: commercial transactions and product counseling. Reporting directly to the Legal Director - Head of Commercial and Product, you will work cross-functionally to drive Everlaw’s business objectives while mitigating legal risks. In this role, you’ll combine strategic vision with practical expertise to develop scalable legal processes and partnerships, negotiate complex commercial agreements, and ensure compliance across product and commercial initiatives.

Getting started

  • We want you to feel like part of the team early on! Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals. 
  • We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1.

In your role, you'll...

  • Be the Commercial and Product Legal Advisor: Partner with Everlaw’s commercial, R&D, and Legal Teams to identify and manage legal issues and risks during all stages of our product development and go-to-market activities. Embed with those teams to monitor updates and advise on legal implications as the product and business evolves.
  • Negotiate Commercial Agreements: Draft and negotiate agreements with strategic partners, customers, resellers, and vendors. Provide practical advice on legal issues and risks to stakeholders and leadership.
  • Enhance Operational Efficiency: Partner with Legal Operations to identify and develop scalable ways to deliver legal services and drive business results, including maintaining playbooks, training programs, and self-service tools to empower the legal and business teams.
  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with Business Development, Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Finance teams to solve problems, build partnerships, and close deals efficiently. 
  • Drive Product Compliance: Provide full lifecycle legal counsel for global products, ensuring compliance with U.S. and international regulations in areas like privacy, intellectual property, marketing, and security. 

About You

  • Business and Legal Advisor: Track record of business and solution oriented counseling in a fast-paced environment and under tight deadlines.
  • Strong Issue Spotter: Proven ability to identify, prioritize and resolve issues quickly and independently.
  • Scaling and Efficiency Skills: Skilled in implementing legal processes that streamline operations and enable growth. Fluent in translating legal advice into actionable guidance for business teams.
  • Highly Motivated and Entrepreneurial: A proactive problem solver who finds creative and practical solutions to complex challenges in a fast-paced environment.
  • Qualified to Practice Law in the U.S.: JD or equivalent, licensed in California or eligible to become Registered In-House Counsel in California. 
  • Multidisciplinary Counsel: A minimum of 4 years of relevant legal experience, with a focus on complex commercial transactions (within the SaaS space), including 2+ years at a law firm and 1+ year in-house.

Benefits

  • The expected salary range for this role is between $145,000 and $185,000. The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the candidate’s experience and skills. The base pay range is subject to change in the future.
  • Equity program
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
  • Health, dental, and vision
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
  • Paid parental leave and approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leave
  • Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
  • Membership to Modern Health to help employees prioritize mental health and wellness
  • Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
  • Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
  • Find out more about our Benefits and Perks

Perks

  • Work in Uptown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants and walking distance to Lake Merritt
  • Flexible work-from-home days on Tuesdays and Fridays
  • Monthly home internet reimbursement
  • Select your preference of hardware (Mac or PC) and customize your desk setup
  • Enjoy a wide variety of snacks and beverages in the office
  • Bond over company-wide out-of-the-box events and fun activities with your team
  • Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choice
  • Take advantage of learning and career development opportunities 
  • Ranked #9 on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2023 for US small and medium companies
  • One of Wealthfront’s 2021 Career Launching Companies, and ranked #2 on the “2022 Bay Area Best Places to Work” list by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal
  • One of Fast Company’s World's Most Innovative Companies for 2022 and proud contributor of free ediscovery resources to benefit the greater good through “Everlaw for Good”
  • #LI-BL1
  • #LI-Hybrid
Pursue Truth While Finding Yours
At Everlaw, we are deeply invested in pursuing the truth, for our clients and for our employees. We know that when you’re empowered to pursue your passions, it is reflected in the work. That’s why we’re committed to the professional growth of all our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular career check-ins with managers. If you’re looking for a place that values passion, integrity, and a desire to learn, we’d love to hear from you! 
 
We help law firms, government agencies, and corporations sift through millions of documents of evidence in big lawsuits and investigations to find the proverbial smoking gun (or needle in the haystack -- pick your metaphor). It's a multi-billion dollar space typically dominated by service-oriented vendors, and we're coming at it with cutting-edge technology and elegant design. It's working, and we've been growing very rapidly: we host hundreds of terabytes of data and work with all 50 state Attorneys General and hundreds of law firms on some of the most high-profile cases litigated today. 
 
Everlaw is an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We respect the gender, gender identity and gender expression of our applicants and employees, and we honor requests for pronouns. It is our policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity, including the California Equal Pay Act.  Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
 
Everlaw requires all of its employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a medical or religious exemption applies.  If you are hired, we will require you to prove that you have received the COVID-19 vaccine, unless you have received a medical or religious exemption.
 
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