Senior Commercial Counsel - Procurement Lead

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior Commercial Counsel to be a key member of Dropbox’s global commercial legal team with a primary focus on procurement related deals, processes, and relationships. Reporting directly to the Head of Global Commercial Legal, this leadership role offers an exciting opportunity to have company-wide impact primarily supporting Dropbox’s global procurement strategy and other cross functional teams and strategies. 

This role is for an experienced in-house attorney in the commercial legal space with a client-first mindset and experience working closely with procurement teams to innovate and leverage technology to create and drive efficiencies in a world class commercial legal function in support of Dropbox’s business goals. You’ll be part of a team of attorneys and professionals responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a high volume of complex commercial contracts with Dropbox business partners, vendors, and customers around the world. Willing to act as both a team player and a mentor, you'll be primarily responsible for partnering with our procurement, finance, product, and other business teams to deliver efficient, scalable approaches to commercial matters, with a focus on procurement deals, processes, and relationships.

The ideal candidate is an experienced commercial attorney who has partnered closely with in-house business teams, and procurement teams, in particular, and is passionate about supporting the business and who thrives in solving legal, technology and business issues. The ideal candidate must be empathetic and a team player who is effective in collaborating with others and enjoys having a bit of fun (and hopefully many laughs!) along the way.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely and create strong working relationships with Dropbox’s business teams, with a primary focus on procurement, finance, product, and other business teams


• Engage personally in complex deals and work collaboratively with various company teams to implement company initiatives


• Develop and collaboratively implement an innovative strategy to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of delivering commercial legal support to Dropbox’s business


• Partner with our LegalOps team to increase process automation, legal technology, and other efficiencies


• Be an active and trusted leader, problem solver, and innovator to key stakeholders across the company

Requirements

• Minimum of 8+ years as a practicing commercial attorney, including substantive experience in drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements, including SaaS, licensing, technology, equipment, and marketing agreements


• Experience partnering with globally distributed in-house business teams, particularly procurement teams, at a SaaS company to handle a high volume of complex commercial transactions


• Process and tool focused innovator who drives performance and efficiencies while building trusted relationships and empowering business partners


• Ability to translate complex legal issues into clear and simple guidance, and to partner effectively across all levels of the company


• Passion for client service and efficiency


• Familiarity with procurement legal systems and tools and experience developing and / or enhancing legal procurement processes and procedures


• High integrity, strong ethics, and an unflappable demeanor


• J.D. with strong academic credentials and demonstrated record of success as a lawyer


• Member in good standing of bar and (if applicable) in-house counsel registration

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong record of close partnership and being embedded with procurement teams in day-to-day procurement deal work and operations


• Direct experience implementing new procurement tooling and processes to drive efficiencies and empower self service with procurement teams


• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple types of cross-functional commercial matters, including customer facing agreements, M&A integration and support, and commercial disputes