SentinelOne
Legal Director, Strategic Deals
United States - Remote · Director
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About the role
- When you join SentinelOne, your work helps protect global enterprises, critical infrastructure, and the technologies shaping tomorrow.
- If you are motivated by meaningful challenges and want your impact to be real, measurable, and global, you will find purpose here.
- By combining real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and a unified data foundation, we reduce noise, simplify complexity, and empower security teams to focus on what truly matters.
Responsibilities
- Experience managing or mentoring attorneys, or a demonstrated readiness to lead in a player-coach role.
Requirements
- A minimum of 12+ years of legal experience with a focus on technology transactions, ideally a combination of top-tier law firm and in-house experience at a technology company.
- M&A experience, particularly commercial diligence and post-close contract integration (a plus, not required).
Skills
- to give the advantage to those who secure our future.
Compensation
- $206,250 - $309,000 USD
Company info
- SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. Our AI-native platform unifies protection across endpoint, cloud, identity, data, and AI systems to deliver autonomous detection and response with clarity and speed. By combining real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and a unified data foundation, we reduce noise, simplify complexity, and empower security teams to focus on what truly matters.
- Our teams are builders, problem-solvers, and innovators committed to shaping the future of security. If you are excited to solve hard problems alongside talented, mission-driven people, we invite you to help us build a safer future for humanity.
- What Are We Looking For?
- We're looking for people who are relentlessly curious and committed to continuous learning. AI is reshaping every function across our business, and we enable every team member, regardless of role or level, to build fluency in AI tools and concepts. Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions, experiment thoughtfully, and apply what they learn to drive better, faster, smarter outcomes.
- As a Legal Director, Strategic Deals, you own three areas:
- strategic partnerships (such as OEM, technology alliance, AI and service-provider partners); commercial support for strategic product initiatives; and commercial support for M&A diligence and integration.
- This is a player-coach role for someone who wants to build something.
- SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity.
- Our AI-native platform unifies protection across endpoint, cloud, identity, data, and AI systems to deliver autonomous detection and response with clarity and speed.
- Our teams are builders, problem-solvers, and innovators committed to shaping the future of security.
- If you are excited to solve hard problems alongside talented, mission-driven people, we invite you to help us build a safer future for humanity.
- We're looking for people who are relentlessly curious and committed to continuous learning.
- AI is reshaping every function across our business, and we enable every team member, regardless of role or level, to build fluency in AI tools and concepts.
- Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions, experiment thoughtfully, and apply what they learn to drive better, faster, smarter outcomes.
- As a Legal Director, Strategic Deals, you own three areas: strategic partnerships (such as OEM, technology alliance, AI and service-provider partners); commercial support for strategic product initiatives; and commercial support for M&A diligence and integration.
- You'll roll up your sleeves and personally run our most significant negotiations, from term sheet to signature.
- You'll also manage and develop a Senior Counsel, while building and developing this new function.
- This role is a rare opportunity to build and shape a team from day one.
- You will work directly with senior leaders and executives across Business Development, Technology Partnerships, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Corporate Development, and partner closely with our commercial, product/IP/AI, privacy, and procurement legal teams.
- We are looking for someone who can structure a deal, not just paper it.
- What Will You Do?
- Primary responsibilities include:
- Strategic Partnerships: Draft, review, and negotiate complex partnership agreements including OEM, technology licensing and alliance.
- IP Licensing & Technology Rights: Negotiate IP ownership, license scope, data rights, and AI terms.
- Strategic Product Initiatives: Partner with Product and GTM leaders on the commercial model for new offerings and translate those into clear customer and partner terms.
- M&A Support: Lead commercial contract diligence on acquisition targets, identify material risks in customer, partner, and IP agreements, and drive post-close contract integration and assignment workstreams in partnership with Corporate Development.
- Deal Strategy & Risk Judgment: Advise executives on deal structure, negotiation strategy, and risk trade-offs. Escalate the right issues at the right altitude, with a clear recommendation.
- Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and develop a Senior Counsel. Set priorities, review work, and build playbooks, templates, and processes that let the function scale.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate with commercial, product/IP/AI, privacy, security, and procurement legal colleagues so that each strategic deal gets consistent, company-wide positions.
Equal opportunity
- SentinelOne is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
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