GAQ127R52
Location: This position will be based in Seattle, Denver, Mountain View, San Francisco, or NYC. This will be a hybrid role with in-office expectations.
About the Role:
Databricks is seeking a Senior Contracts Negotiator to support our growing Enterprise (ENT) commercial business. Reporting to the Director, Assistant General Counsel, you will negotiate Master Cloud Services Agreements (MCSA), Data Privacy Agreements, NDAs, SOWs, and other contracts relevant to our business (e.g. AI Terms and Order Forms).
You have 5+ years of relevant commercial legal transactional experience with a focus on complex technology transactions. You have meaningful experience negotiating SaaS commercial transactions and strong knowledge/experience counseling on legal issues related to data privacy, information security, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property, including open source software.
What You Will Do
- Negotiate, draft, and close MCSA with ENT customers, ensuring compliance with company policies, data privacy, information security, and regulatory requirements.
- Provide commercial and contracting support to assigned Attorneys (as needed) on complex deals and strategic negotiations.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (sales, finance, product, compliance) to drive revenue-generating transactions while mitigating risks.
- Streamline contracting processes, workflows and assist in improving templates, legal playbooks focused on continuing to scale our business.
- Advise on legal, commercial and operating risks, by becoming a subject matter expert on the customer commercial transactions across the ENT verticals you support.
- Support the company's OKRs, strategic initiatives, including contract management improvements, and special projects across the legal team.
- Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of contract negotiation experience with relevant commercial transactional experience working for and/or supporting cloud-based software companies.
- Strong attention to detail, excellent critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
- Process-oriented mindset with experience in improving contracting workflows.
- Ability to communicate and work effectively with internal teams, internal clients, and Databricks prospects/customers.
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Benefits
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
Compliance
If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.
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