Director & Associate General Counsel

About the Team

The mission of the legal department at Databricks is to help scale the business overall while ensuring governance and compliance, contributing to customer and corporate security and corporate risk management and mitigation. 

Outcomes

The most dynamic sector in which to build your legal career right now is the global, data-driven, cloud-based provision of artificial intelligence, data analytics, and machine learning services.

Databricks seeks a Director and Associate General Counsel; you will join Databricks' growing commercial & public sector legal team supporting the business activities of Databricks, working on diverse matters including reviewing and negotiating customer and business channel agreements and providing legal support for revenue-generating activities of Databricks. Reporting to our VP Legal, Americas, your responsibilities will include supporting our Americas sales team, managing junior legal team members, overseeing commercial contracts, and supporting and resolving issues relating to security, data and privacy.

Responsibilities

• Establish yourself as a leader of the Americas commercial legal team
• Manage junior legal team members, mentoring, and being a point of escalation
• Negotiate major, complex, non-standard agreements
• Be a Legal business partner to Sales leadership providing general legal advice on forecasting, deal process, and contract management
• Understand product, data security, and privacy process issues to direct Sales leadership during negotiations
• Be a subject matter expert in a related function (e.g., privacy, public sector, or procurement)
• Help with standardization of documentation across multiple jurisdictions
• Quickly assimilate Databricks' internal structures, product offerings, technology, security/data protection systems, policies, and standard commercial contracts to enable effective support across all lines of business

Competencies

Qualifications & Experience

• Relevant tech sector legal experience focused on commercial transactions including complex cloud contracts, with a minimum of 10 years' experience including significant experience in-house (preferably at a high-growth technology company)
• Understanding of cloud services, software technology and professional services contracts
• Strong knowledge of intellectual property, data privacy, and contract law
• Substantial experience drafting and negotiating complex transactions involving security, privacy and IP issues
• Solid experience of business process gained in-house relating to commercial, contract, intellectual property and data privacy law
• Ability to prioritize, manage time, and client expectations in the face of competing demands
• Current state bar membership
• Success leading, mentoring, and guiding junior legal team members
• Experience supporting US public sector and / or procurement legal issues is highly encouraged but not required

Benefits (U.S.)

• Medical, dental, vision
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Catered lunch (everyday), snacks, and drinks
• Gym reimbursement
• Employee referral bonus program
• Awesome coworkers
• Maternity and paternity plans