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Pinterest
1,001 – 5,000 Employees
H1B Visa SponsorB2CMedia
Pinterest is a visual discovery platform where people find inspiration, save ideas, and organize them around interests, projects, and purchases. Its experience combines personalized recommendations and visual search across topics such as home design, fashion, recipes, and events, while also helping creators and retailers reach audiences through commerce tools and advertising.
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Director, Assistant General Counsel - Commercial

Pinterest is seeking a commercial legal director to lead counsel and negotiations for SaaS, AI, cloud infrastructure, and technology agreements. The role supports technology partnerships and strategic business initiatives.

USUnited StatesCACalifornia
$210,161 – $432,684 / year
HybridFull-timeLeadEnglish RequiredGeneral Counsel
Cloud

Description

  • Lead and develop legal professionals handling complex commercial and technology transactions
  • Oversee team hiring, onboarding, performance, development, and resource planning
  • Establish priorities and operating practices that improve productivity, quality, stakeholder support, and career growth
  • Serve as the escalation point for complex, contentious, and unexpected matters
  • Shape negotiation strategy and assess legal risk across SaaS, AI, cloud, infrastructure, data processing, professional services, and other supplier agreements
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Privacy, Finance, Procurement, and IT on strategic initiatives and critical transactions
  • Create scalable playbooks, templates, workflows, guidance, and decision frameworks
  • Apply metrics, milestones, and feedback loops to strengthen execution and stakeholder experience
  • Develop team and organizational capability through coaching, succession planning, broader exposure, and stretch assignments
  • Monitor cloud contracting developments, emerging licensing and consumption models, and industry best practices

Requirements

  • Juris Doctor degree and at least 10 years of legal experience
  • Substantial experience negotiating complex SaaS, cloud services, technology infrastructure, and commercial transactions
  • At least two years of in-house legal experience at a technology company preferred
  • Strong people leadership experience spanning coaching, performance management, professional development, and workforce planning
  • Extensive experience negotiating cloud compute, SaaS, hosting, data processing, professional services, and other technology supplier agreements
  • Ability to advise on data privacy, data security, artificial intelligence, and broader commercial risk
  • Sound judgment and confidence making risk-based decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities
  • Ability to deliver clear, business-focused solutions
  • Proven ability to drive results through others, manage escalations, and improve team operations
  • Demonstrated success building team capability, maintaining high standards, and fostering an inclusive, accountable environment

Benefits

  • Eligibility for equity
  • Flexible working model
  • In-person collaboration required only one to two times every six months
  • Support for medical or religious accommodations during the application process

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