This is a fantastic opportunity to use your business and legal acumen and have a large impact on a high flying venture backed SaaS business. You will be the 2nd in house legal hire reporting into the Company’s General Counsel (who is NY based) in a remote/hybrid role where you'll work on a broad array of commercial, corporate and product issues affecting a high growth technology business. The role is best suited for someone who is gritty, yet meticulous; independent, yet collaborative. You’re able to translate legalese into practical advice for all teams. You’re excited about our business and have an understanding of the SaaS and/or financial services ecosystem. You have a pragmatic approach to problem solving, flexibility to thrive in an ever-changing environment, and smart decision-making abilities even when challenged with ambiguity and imperfect information. You have an entrepreneurial spirit and a ‘take the ball and run with it’ approach. You offer creative solutions to problems -- not just flag them. You understand and are motivated by Legal’s mission at Glia to (i) be a trusted advisor; (ii) facilitate Company growth; (iii) protect our assets; and (iv) fix problems!

What You’ll Do: 

• Become the point person for our global sales team, acting as a strategic business partner to lead the negotiation process to close deals. 
• Draft and negotiate agreements throughout the Company including strategic partnerships, sales, vendor, marketing, NDA’s, and other commercial agreements.
• Align with R&D teams on the company’s data collection, storage, use, and related privacy matters and how it translates into our privacy policies and templates.
• Partner with the General Counsel on the optimization and further creation of Companywide commercial templates and processes to ensure the Legal Department is set up for scale (i.e sales trainings, creation of a playbook, templates and other collateral 
• Stay on top of the latest developments in laws, regulations, and industry trends applicable to venture backed software companies, including federal, state, and international data privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)

What You’ll Bring:

• You should have 3-6 years of transactional experience, ideally with in house, software licensing and/or financial services background. 
• You should have significant experience drafting and negotiating SaaS agreements and similar complex services and partnership agreements including related privacy and data security provisions. You have an interest and  experience with the SaaS business model and related isues that  routinely arise when negotiating SaaS MSA’s. 
• As Commercial & Product Counsel, you will report to the General Counsel and will be tasked with deeply understanding and influencing sales negotiations and processes. You will need strong attention to detail  and you should be an efficient problem solver who is excited to work in a fast paced tech scale up.