Commercial Counsel

Posted 2 Days Ago
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Dublin
Mid level
Digital Media • Software • Analytics
The Role
The Commercial Counsel will negotiate, draft, and advise on a variety of customer-facing agreements, particularly in a SaaS context. Responsibilities include collaborating with various teams, providing legal advice, supporting procurement negotiations, training internal teams, and improving commercial policies. Strong negotiation and communication skills are essential for managing complex agreements and fostering relationships.
Summary Generated by Built In

SurveyMonkey is the world’s most popular platform for surveys and forms, built for business—loved by users. We combine powerful capabilities with intuitive design, effectively serving every use case, from customer experience to employee engagement, market research to payment and registration forms. With built-in research expertise and AI-assisted technology, it’s like having a team of expert researchers right at your fingertips.
Trusted by millions—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—SurveyMonkey helps teams gather insights and information that inspire better decisions, create experiences people love, and drive business growth. Discover how at surveymonkey.com.

What we’re looking for

SurveyMonkey is seeking a bright, talented commercial lawyer to join its legal and corporate affairs team.  We are looking for a Counsel - Commercial Transactions with experience in SaaS business issues and transactions.  This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in helping to scale a growing internet business. Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel, this role will require you to primarily focus on enterprise commercial transactions and will involve extensive collaboration with members of various SurveyMonkey teams, including sales, finance, operations, security and procurement teams. We are looking for team members who share our interest in engaging legal issues and who apply a creative, and thoughtful approach when providing legal advice. As a SaaS business, we often operate on the leading edge of the legal sphere, where the law struggles to keep up with technology and the rules get fuzzy. This makes our work very interesting. 

What you’ll be working on

  • Have responsibility for negotiating, drafting, and advising on a broad range of customer facing agreements, including SaaS Enterprise Agreements and ancillary documentation related to sales deals, such as NDAs, order forms, DPAs, partnership agreements, etc.
  • Collaborate closely with internal clients and key stakeholders (including the sales, sales operations, security, finance, and management teams) by providing legal advice on relevant legal topics.
  • Actively support the Procurement team to navigate complex contractual negotiations, including security and privacy related matters.
  • Negotiate and advise on customer and vendor privacy related agreements.
  • Proactively provide training and ongoing support to internal teams on sales and contractual matters, including developing internal playbooks and training.
  • Take the initiative to recommend and implement improvements to commercial policies, procedures, and standard form contracts.
  • Build strong relationships with and support other members of the legal team as required.

We’d love to hear from people with

  • Qualified lawyer admitted to practice in Ireland.
  • At least 3 years of commercial transactions experience, ideally in a business law firm or in-house in a technology company. 
  • Excellent negotiation, drafting and communication skills with the ability to foster relationships and collaborate with internal clients.
  • Experience of IT and SaaS contracts preferred.
  • Experience with and a demonstrated ability to negotiate data-privacy related agreements.  
  • Ability to give succinct, commercially driven legal advice.
  • Familiarity with revenue recognition principles.
  • The ability to manage multiple projects and drive them through to completion within required timeframes.
  • Works well autonomously and in a multidisciplinary team environment.
  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Fluency in English.

This opportunity is hybrid and requires you to work from a SurveyMonkey office 1 day per week.

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Why SurveyMonkey? We’re glad you asked 

SurveyMonkey is a place where the curious come to grow.  We’re building an inclusive workplace where people of every background can excel no matter their time zone. At SurveyMonkey, we weave employee feedback and our core values into everything we do to create forward-looking benefits policies, employee programs, and an award-winning culture, including our annual holiday refresh, our annual week of service, learning and development opportunities like Curiosity Week, and our C.H.O.I.C.E Fund. 

Our commitment to an inclusive workplace

SurveyMonkey is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We celebrate the unique differences of our employees because that is what drives curiosity, innovation, and the success of our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.

The Company
HQ: San Mateo, CA
1,767 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

We deliver intuitive, people-centric solutions that help industry leaders quickly and confidently make important decisions, take action, and achieve tangible results. Our AI-powered platform is built with a purposeful balance of humanity and technology, weaving together over 20 years of experience with data derived from billions of real questions and responses. Today, we offer enterprise solutions for agile experience management and insights by our three product brands: Momentive, GetFeedback, and SurveyMonkey.

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