Senior Commercial Counsel - Flex Coverage EMEA

About the role

Atlassian is looking for a Senior Commercial Counsel to join its Legal team and support its commercial business across EMEA, with flexibility to cover different GEOs in the region. The role is remote, part of a distributed team, and expects a candidate based in the UK. You will work with the sales team, internal business partners and other Legal colleagues to review and respond to requests from current and prospective customers, building on your existing hands-on experience drafting and negotiating customer and partner agreements.

Key responsibilities

• Negotiate enterprise cloud and license agreements, including master services agreements.
• Review contracts and give pragmatic, business-minded guidance on contract-related issues.
• Collaborate with sales, deal desk, partner and alliances, privacy, risk and compliance, security, finance, accounting and product teams to speed up contract reviews and improve internal processes.
• Develop support materials and run training for direct sales and channel teams on contract terms and legal issues.
• Build trusted relationships with regional sales colleagues and advise business and corporate functions in the region, working with specialists in the US and EMEA.
• Contribute to projects improving contract processes and sales enablement.

Required profile

• Degree in Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian or UK law (LLB/LLM) and ideally a formal bar qualification or equivalent professional registry with 8+ years PQE.
• Strong experience of B2B contract negotiation and good commercial, tech and business acumen, especially in SaaS and tech.
• Fluent English; other languages are a plus.
• Good knowledge of privacy matters, including GDPR.
• Experience in the cloud space and tech contracting.
• Team player who builds relationships with sales teams, takes ownership, works well remotely and enjoys negotiating in a collaborative spirit.

Required skills

• B2B contract negotiation and drafting.
• GDPR and privacy.
• Cloud and tech contracting.

Additional qualifications in other EMEA jurisdictions, knowledge of other legal areas, and experience with public sector or financial institution customers are a plus. The role may be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions and equity.