Commercial Counsel
Crunchbase
About Crunchbase
Crunchbase is a predictive solution that provides intelligence on private companies, powered by the unique combination of live private company data, AI, and market activity from over 80 million users. We predict private market movements that matter to help investors, dealmakers, and analysts make the right decisions.
We are committed to fostering a positive, diverse, and inclusive culture by hiring for potential and embracing individuals with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets. We value transparency and openness, believing that an inclusive environment strengthens our teams and enhances our products.
Crunchbase has a remote-first approach, and is open to hiring in residents of these states: California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Maine.
Our inclusive remote-first culture, generous PTO policies, competitive pay, and employee wellness benefits set us apart!
About the Role:
The Commercial Counsel at Crunchbase provides legal support to the company, focusing primarily on reviewing and drafting Sales contracts, but also assisting with compliance matters, claims, corporate matters and supporting the continuous improvement of Crunchbase’s legal processes. This role, involves drafting and negotiating various commercial agreements and advising on legal issues related to Sales, product, data privacy/security (GDPR, CCPA, etc.), marketing/advertising and general compliance matters.
What You'll Do:
- Advise internal clients, primarily Sales, on legal issues, manage and communicate risks and opportunities in commercial transactions.
- Review, draft, and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements, including outbound and inbound Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), partnership, vendor, professional service, cloud service, enterprise, marketing and reseller agreements.
- Help our Sales team respond to information security and data collection questionnaires.
- Provide guidance on product, data privacy/security (GDPR, CCPA, etc.), marketing/advertising, employment and general compliance matters
- Draft and implement policies and procedures to ensure adherence to legal best practices.
- Leverage AI-enabled tools to assist with contract intake, template population, drafting, redline comparisons, research and document organization to improve speed and accuracy.
What We're Looking For:
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school.
- Member of at least one U.S. state bar.
- 1+ years of relevant legal experience.
- Strong business acumen and project management skills.
- Exceptional business negotiation and effective client counseling skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with both Legal (in-house and outside counsel) and business team members.
- Experience with or knowledge of privacy laws and compliance issues facing growth-stage technology companies.
- Experience with contract management tools
- Candidates residing in FL, GA, MA, NJ, NY, NC, PA, SC or VA preferred
What Crunchbase Offers:
- Competitive salary and equity in the form of stock options
- Remote first policy
- Generous Reimbursement policy for learning and development activities
- Monthly Wellness stipend
- 14 weeks of fully-paid time off for various life situations (like welcoming a new born or caring for family)
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 22 Holidays in 2025
- Volunteering Paid Time Off
- Incredible medical, vision and dental benefits for employees and their families (including PPO, HDHP, and INO plans)
- 401(k) and Roth plans, and free annual financial adviser check-in
- Monthly internet stipend
- Work from home allowance to purchase furniture for your work from home space
- Matching charity contributions for our Townhall awards
- A team of creative, transparent entrepreneurs driven to accomplish our mission
At Crunchbase, we value team members who are passionate and enthusiastic about what we're building here. We believe there is no "perfect" candidate, and want to encourage applying even if all the requirements listed aren’t met. If you're passionate about Crunchbase and looking to learn and grow, then we look forward to reviewing your application!
Crunchbase does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, veteran status, military obligations, or marital status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Every day our team is honored to work with entrepreneurs and innovators from every corner of the globe, and we aim to build a team that reflects the diversity of our customers. Each individual at Crunchbase brings their own perspectives, work experiences, lifestyles, and cultures with them, and we believe that a more diverse team creates more innovative products, provides a better service to its customers, and helps us all grow and learn as individuals.
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