About the Role
Navan Legal is expanding and seeking a Commercial Counsel to join their high-impact team. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of a rapidly growing, category-defining company that serves global customers. Ideal for those passionate about cutting-edge technology, fast-paced environments, and making a significant impact in the travel and expense industry.
Responsibilities
- Draft and negotiate complex commercial contracts, including sales and services agreements, data processing agreements, and ancillary documents with enterprise customers.
- Lead customer-facing legal negotiations in collaboration with Sales, Privacy, Finance, and Product teams.
- Develop and contribute to templates, forms, and playbooks to enhance collaboration and support Sales team enablement.
- Provide legal advice and guidance on procurement contracts to internal stakeholders.
- Manage additional matters such as supply and channel partnerships, feature licensing, and inbound license agreements.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to strengthen the connection between the legal team and the business, managing multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
- Contribute positively to the culture of the Navan Legal team and the company.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer in your practice jurisdiction.
- 5+ years of experience as a practicing attorney.
- Significant experience negotiating complex commercial agreements with Fortune 500 companies, preferably in a SaaS or other technology company.
- Experience negotiating global commercial contracts, particularly for customers in Australia.
- Understanding of GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and other privacy laws relevant to SaaS is strongly preferred.
- Ability to provide pragmatic, business-minded guidance on customer and contract-related issues.
- Familiarity with financial regulations and fintech contracting is strongly preferred.
- Excellent communication skills: comfortable, confident, friendly, and capable of explaining complex issues appropriately for the audience.
- Strong understanding of software, cloud services, generative AI, associated business models, and technology industry trends.
- Commitment to client service, with high emotional intelligence and the ability to perform well under pressure.
Skills
- Commercial contract negotiation
- SaaS contracting
- Technology industry trends
- GDPR
- CCPA/CPRA
- Financial regulations
- Fintech contracting
- Client service
- Communication
- Emotional intelligence
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Education Level
- Qualified lawyer
About the Company
- Navan Legal is expanding and is a category-defining company in the travel and expense industry.
- The company is growing rapidly and serves the largest global customers worldwide.
- The company is redefining travel and expense through cutting-edge technology.
