Senior Legal Director, Commercial (in Leipzig)
About Staffbase
In a polarized world, we inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication so they can thrive in the Narrative Age. Our award-winning communications channels – intranet, employee app and email – deliver experiences that drive engagement and inspire hearts and minds.
We’re headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany, with offices in many locations throughout the world, including New York, London, Berlin and Dresden. Our international team counts more than 750 employees from 45+ nationalities and we have a growing base of 2200+ customers that want to transform their employee experience. We are rapidly scaling, post-Series E ($115 million funding), have strong-growing revenue, and our customers love us.
As the Senior Director of Commercial Legal at Staffbase, you will lead a high performing, legal team supporting the global commercial function, as well as the broader legal team as it aims to scale and evolve into a modern, best-in-class legal business unit.
What you’ll be doing
- Oversee the execution of a high volume of revenue generating commercial transactions and procurement activities in DACH, Northern EMEA, USA and APAC
- Lead and develop a team of commercial lawyers and paralegals in a high-velocity environment, across multiple jurisdictions and languages, with a strong focus on individual learning
- Report to the General Counsel and be a strategic partner to Procurement, Sales, Sales Enablement, Deal Desk and Finance
- Collaborate proactively with stakeholders on legal risks, strategy, compliance, and policy in relation to enterprise sales, procurement, operations, and business growth
- Negotiate and execute on complex, high-risk enterprise transactions and take a pragmatic position on risk where necessary
- Develop, manage and deliver legal operations projects to scale the business, using the latest tech tools and modern legal design thinking, e.g. playbooks, contract lifecycle management tools, legal front door, AI chatbots
- With Legal Ops, create metrics for the legal team, collect and analyse data, and regularly report to the wider company with the objective of optimising legal resources.
- Deputise for the GC wherever necessary
What you need to be successful
- High level of business acumen with an appreciation for weighing legal and business risk
- Business proficiency in English and German
- 8+ years of commercial legal experience in an in-house legal department, with at least 5 years in a B2B SaaS company
- Expertise in Technology law, SaaS, Software licensing, IP and, Data Privacy and Legal Ops
- Excellent consultative, advisory and influencing skills
- Demonstrated strategic approach to long-term action planning and execution
- Experience developing and leading distributed teams in a complex environment with a high volume of matters and different cultures
What you could set you apart
- Corporate and M&A experience
- Experience in preparing a company for IPO
What you'll get (for DACH)
- Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including an Employee Stock Option Plan.
- Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560.
- Growth Budget - all employees get a yearly budget for external training of €1000, and one day off for growth per year (increase to two days in 2nd year).
- Wellbeing - in addition to our yearly vacation of 30 days, we’re running a 4-day-work week every year in August with full payment.
- Support - we’re offering a company pension scheme.
- Sports & Health - join our sport courses in the offices or lease a bike with Staffbase. The offices are equipped with fruits, drinks and snacks.
- Team Building - Regular team and office events including the yearly Staffbase Camp.
- Volunteers Day - you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project. We will donate a small amount for that project in addition.
- Employee Referral Program - one of your friends is a fit to one of our full-time openings? Refer them and get a referral bonus paid.