Senior Corporate Counsel, Commercial

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We are looking for an experienced attorney to join as an early member of Kong’s commercial legal team, responsible for helping support Kong’s strategic sales growth in the Americas. In this role, you will be a trusted partner to the Americas revenue team. You will draft, structure and negotiate customer contracts with some of the world’s biggest brands in financial services, technology, e-commerce and other industries. You will be called on to assess legal and business risks, make sound decisions, and provide advice on a broad range of issues in areas such as privacy, security, open-source software and intellectual property, and assist with other issues as they come up. You will report to Kong’s Sr. Director, Head of Global Commercial Legal. The position is based in San Francisco, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex SaaS and on-premises commercial negotiations

• Serve as a trusted advisor to Kong’s Americas sales team

• Review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of other commercial agreements

• Help ensure compliance with a variety of laws and regulations impacting our SaaS and on-premises offerings, including intellectual property, privacy, security and government contracting

• Partner with Finance, Revenue Operations and Customer Assurance to support the end-to-end contract close process

• Advise internal teams on legal matters and provide general commercial legal advice

What you’ll bring:

• Law degree, and member in good standing of the California state bar, or eligible to be a registered in-house counsel in California

• Minimum 7 years of experience practicing law both in private practice and in-house, preferably with late-stage private and/or early-stage public technology companies

• Demonstrated experience in negotiating and closing complex SaaS and software contracts with large, sophisticated customers

• Collaborative, and willing to build something together as a team

• 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 information security/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

Location:

• San Francisco, CA

About Kong:

Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @thekonginc.

Compensation Range: $200K - $235K