Senior Commercial Counsel

Job Summary

• Serve as a legal business partner to the US and Canada Sales organizations by drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial technology agreements, including SaaS, hardware, software license and services agreements, and data privacy and information security agreements, with customers and partners to enable sales opportunities while also complying with legal requirements and company policies.

• Become a trusted advisor to your sales clients, as well as cross-functional stakeholders, by conducting thorough legal analyses and risk assessments to identify potential legal issues and providing proactive recommendations and actionable guidance on legal issues and risks.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of standard agreements and legal processes for customer and partner agreements, as well as on projects designed to increase velocity and efficiency, including templates and playbooks.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including finance, information security, privacy, sales operations, business unit and product teams to drive customer deals to execution and design scalable processes for implementation.

• This role reports to the Director, North America Field Legal.

• This role is to be located on one of four locations : San Jose (Bay Area), Denver/Boulder, CO, Raleigh, NC or Washington, DC.

Job Requirements

Minimum 10 years of legal experience practicing law, including at least five years in-house experience at a technology company, with considerable experience drafting and negotiating complex technology contracts with partners and customers.

• In-depth knowledge of software, hardware and SaaS agreements, as well as data privacy and information security agreements, and associated business models, and technology industry regulations and trends.

• Keen business sense, with the ability to distill legal theory into practical advice through excellent verbal and written communication, drafting and negotiation skills.

• Solution-oriented:  You bring empathy and understanding to your conversations with customers, seeking to find a path forward that balances company risk and customer needs, and you think creatively beyond the legal terms to generate possible solutions and options for the business, while clearly articulating risk-based recommendations.

• Ability to thrive in a high performance, fast-paced environment and to multitask, prioritize effectively and execute quickly.

• Team-oriented, with a good sense of humor and high level of integrity, responsibility and professionalism, along with strong interpersonal and people skills.

• Juris Doctor and membership in good standing of at least one state bar.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

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