Senior Corporate Counsel - Dublin

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Senior Corporate Counsel, Commercial Legal (Dublin)

In this role, you will have primary responsibility for advising and supporting the sales and professional services organizations in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Benelux. You will apply your experience when providing strong legal guidance, structuring complex deals, and drafting and negotiating SaaS Subscription Agreements and related commercial documents with some of the biggest names across every industry who trust Okta to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure.

What you’ll be doing 

• Primary responsibility to advise, draft, and negotiate outbound SaaS master subscription agreements, and other types of ancillary commercial documents related to the sales cycle, such as amendments, NDAs and SOWs, with a focus on large, strategic accounts, including customers in highly-regulated industries (e.g., global banking, finance, and healthcare).
• Provide day-to-day legal support and respond promptly and effectively to legal requests from sales and other internal clients. 
• Partner with revenue recognition, deal desk, sales operations, privacy and security, and other internal stakeholder teams to ensure negotiated agreements are consistent with internal Okta policies and processes. 
• Build critical relationships with sales and legal colleagues and key stakeholders to effectively provide practical legal and strategic advice to assist the business in meeting its objectives. 
• Advise on recommended courses of action and legal risks. 
• Ability to judge when to escalate identified issues as may be necessary. 
• Support continuous improvement of standard form legal templates, playbooks, policies and legal processes related to commercial transactions. 
• Support go-to-market tasks and willingness to drive and contribute to other interesting legal projects, as may be required.

What you’ll bring to the role

• 7+ years of relevant transactional legal experience negotiating and drafting enterprise-level technology agreements, including SaaS subscription agreements, cloud services agreements, technology licenses, and professional services agreements, statements of work, ordering documents, NDAs, amendments and related commercial documents. 
• 4+ years of in-house experience with a large technology vendor providing transactional legal support. 
• Significant experience providing commercial legal support to sales teams calling on large, strategic accounts in Europe, including those in highly-regulated industries (e.g., finance, banking, healthcare, etc).