Corporate Counsel - Commercial

September 19

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Kong Inc.

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API • APIs • web services • Cloud Services • big data

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💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

Description

• Serve as a trusted advisor and business partner to Kong’s Americas sales team • Support our ANZ sales team as needed • Lead complex cross-border commercial transactions with sophisticated counterparties located across the Americas and ANZ • Review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of other commercial agreements • Help ensure compliance with a variety of laws and regulations impacting our enterprise software and SaaS offerings, including intellectual property, privacy, security and government contracting • Partner with Finance, Sales Ops and Deal Ops to support the end-to-end contract negotiation and close process • Advise internal teams on legal matters and provide general commercial legal advice, as well as providing training and enablement to our growing go-to-market organization • And any additional challenges and tasks to help support Kong’s growth

Requirements

• Law degree, and member in good standing of the California state bar or, if remote, a major U.S. state legal jurisdiction • Minimum 4-5 years of technology transactions experience, either practicing law at a major US law firm and/or in-house (preferably with experience supporting technology companies) • Demonstrated experience in drafting, negotiating and closing complex software and SaaS contracts with large, sophisticated customers • Great judgment, and an ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships within the company, with customers, and others • Working knowledge of intellectual property, data governance and privacy matters • High professional and personal standards, and a commitment to inclusiveness • Attention to detail and an ability to view legal issues within the context of business objectives • Practical yet creative problem–solving approach to address Kong’s business needs while protecting Kong’s interest • A passion for teamwork and customer success - at Kong we win together and work as One Team

Benefits

• Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021 • 2022 Forbes Cloud 100 Honoree