Sr. Counsel
Remote, US · Senior
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About the role
- Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work.
- Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think.
- You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.
Responsibilities
- Lead legal support for enterprise-level cloud negotiations with AWS and other cloud service providers, including advising on pricing structures, committed spend models, service descriptions, renewal terms, service levels, support, audit rights, termination and exit provisions.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Security and Privacy teams to support cloud needs forecasting, budget alignment and strategic decision-making for major cloud and infrastructure transactions.
- Help operationalize the key commercial, financial and legal terms of cloud infrastructure agreements by partnering with internal stakeholders to implement contracting requirements, track committed spend and renewal milestones, support compliance with reporting and audit provisions, and build practical processes that enable the business to realize the value of negotiated terms.
- Support the business in evaluating alternative technologies, providers and contracting approaches to drive efficiency, flexibility and innovation.
- Partner with internal business partners, attorneys and contracts managers to develop processes, playbooks and systems that help scale Pinterest's cloud and commercial contracting function globally.
Requirements
- JD with minimum 8 years of experience in a legal environment, with significant experience negotiating complex SaaS, cloud services, technology infrastructure and commercial transactions.
- Strong understanding of cloud computing business models, contracting structures and pricing frameworks, including consumption-based models, committed spend arrangements and enterprise technology agreements.
- Experience partnering with Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Finance and Procurement stakeholders on high-value, strategically important technology deals.
- Experience translating negotiated contract terms into scalable internal processes and operational guidance for business teams.
- Strong communication skills, particularly the ability to translate legal jargon and complicated contract concepts into clear, practical guidance for business teams.
Nice to have
- Minimum 2 years of in-house experience at a technology company preferred.
Skills
- It's Possible.
- Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day.
- It's where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most.
Compensation
- In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position.
Company info
- We are looking for a Senior Commercial Counsel with a strong background in negotiating complex SaaS, AI and cloud infrastructure agreements to join our team.
- In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position.
- What we're looking for:
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