Director of Commercial Legal, Cloud and SaaS
Lead F5’s commercial legal strategy and enterprise SaaS negotiations. Translate cloud, privacy, and security requirements into practical customer commitments.
$2,78,400 – $4,17,600 / वर्ष
हाइब्रिडपूर्णकालिकलीडआवश्यक भाषा: अंग्रेज़ीवकीलविवरण
- Lead high-value enterprise SaaS deals with regulated Fortune 500 customers through negotiation and close.
- Improve transaction efficiency and reduce sales friction while managing material risk.
- Partner with Product Management, Information Security, and Product Counsel early in product design.
- Turn cloud concepts such as multi-tenancy, data sovereignty, encryption, and telemetry into commercial terms and customer commitments.
- Identify, escalate, and resolve recurring commercial negotiation barriers.
- Increase deal velocity and expand enterprise data controls globally.
- Manage two commercial contract managers who serve as global F5 SaaS transaction experts.
- Oversee initial reviews of customer contracts against F5’s standard positions and approved fallback terms.
- Advise commercial attorneys across regions and triage escalations.
- Create scalable resources and playbooks for complex cloud negotiations.
- Structure data processing agreements, security exhibits, and compliance frameworks.
- Address cross-border data transfers, regulatory changes, and enterprise customer needs.
- Improve negotiation playbooks and self-service contracting workflows.
आवश्यकताएँ
- Hold a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school.
- Maintain active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- Have at least 10 years of relevant legal experience.
- Bring substantial in-house experience negotiating enterprise SaaS, cloud platform, and data processing agreements.
- Understand privacy, cybersecurity, AI governance, and emerging technology and AI regulations in practical terms.
- Know SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS 4.0, FedRAMP, HIPAA, GDPR, U.S. state privacy laws, the EU AI Act, and DORA.
- Have deep knowledge of SaaS business models, subscription economics, DPAs, SLA structures, and liability standards.
- Show a track record of enabling business while prioritizing commercial velocity.
- Assess risk commercially and propose creative, practical solutions.
- Discuss data residency, tenancy, encryption, and telemetry with technical and non-technical stakeholders and express them in contract language.
- Build relationships with executive leadership, sales, product management, and engineering teams.
- Have experience mentoring junior legal team members.
- Have direct experience managing or leading contract managers or other legal professionals.
- Work comfortably amid ambiguity in a fast-changing, multi-cloud environment.
- Show initiative in creating playbooks from scratch when standard precedents are unavailable.
लाभ
- Incentive compensation
- Bonus
- Restricted stock units
- Benefits package
- Reasonable accommodations for candidates
