legal
Posted 2 days agoLegal Counsel, Commercial
at Databricks
Singapore, SingaporeHybrid
Responsibilities
- Policy Architect: Help maintain and update our legal templates to ensure compliance with evolving provincial and federal laws while supporting global consistency.
Requirements
- Databricks is looking for an experienced commercial attorney to join our growing commercial legal team focused on supporting our Asia field teams and providing ad hoc support to GTM and bespoke new-market entry support in the region (as needed).
- You will be a key player in reviewing and negotiating customer agreements and providing legal support for Databricks' revenue-generating and commercialization activities across Asia.
- experience with a focus on complex technology transactions within the Asia market. You possess meaningful
- Subject Matter Expert: Serve as a pragmatic business partner, providing legal counsel on Databricks’ technology, product portfolio, and security/compliance architecture, especially as they relate to local compliance standards.
- Experience: Minimum of four (6) years of technology transactions experience, either at a top-tier law firm and/or in an in-house role at a high-growth SaaS company.
- experience with cloud-based software, consumption, and commit-based business models, and the nuances of the quarterly/fiscal year sales cadence.
- Negotiation Skills: Proven ability to successfully navigate, objection handle complex legal issues involving information security, AI, and intellectual property (including open-source software).
- Agility: Ability to prioritize competing demands and remain responsive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
- Qualifications: LL.B. or J.D. from a recognized law school, qualified to practice law in SG. 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
- At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel.
- 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
Experience
- You have 6+ years of relevant commercial legal transactional
Benefits
- benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the
Additional details
- Location: We're looking to hire for this role in our Singapore, SG office. This will be a hybrid role with in-office expectations. About the Role:
- You will report to the Sr. Director & AGC, Commercial Legal.
- Revenue Enabler: Become a vital member of the commercial legal team responsible for negotiating enterprise-level cloud service agreements.
- You will ensure that risk oversight is effectively integrated and balanced with Databricks’ ambitious business objectives, in further enabling continued rapid revenue growth in the region.
- Strategic Partner: Cultivate strong relationships with the field sales team by providing sound, strategic counsel to close complex sales transactions.
- Cross-Functional Collaborator: Partner and work closely with Finance, Information Security, and Product teams to align and enforce global contracting processes and policies within the context of local business norms. What We Look For: •
- Asia Market Expertise: Demonstrated requirements across the region.
- Communication: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; foreign language fluency is considered a significant plus. Education &
- We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards.
- 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.