Director & Assistant General Counsel, Commercial

2 hours, 54 minutes ago
Full-time
Executive
Legal
Pinterest

Pinterest

Pinterest is the world's first visual discovery engine, offering a vast dataset of ideas with over 200 billion recipes, home hacks, and style inspiration. With a mission to inspire everyone to create a life they love, Pinterest empowers its employees t...

Internet Software & Services
5K-10K
Founded 2010

Description

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team supporting complex commercial and technology transactions.
  • Manage hiring, onboarding, performance, development, and team resourcing.
  • Set priorities and operating processes to improve productivity, quality, and stakeholder support.
  • Serve as an escalation point for complex, contentious, or time-sensitive legal issues.
  • Guide negotiation strategy and risk assessment for SaaS, AI, cloud, infrastructure, data processing, and supplier agreements.
  • Partner with Engineering, Security, Privacy, Finance, Procurement, and IT on strategic initiatives.
  • Build scalable playbooks, templates, workflows, guidance, and decision frameworks.
  • Use metrics and feedback loops to improve execution and stakeholder experience.
  • Develop team capability through coaching, succession planning, and stretch opportunities.
  • Monitor cloud contracting trends, licensing models, and industry practices.

Requirements

  • Juris Doctor degree and at least 10 years of legal experience.
  • Significant experience negotiating complex SaaS, cloud services, technology infrastructure, and commercial transactions.
  • At least 2 years of in-house experience at a technology company preferred.
  • Strong people management experience, including coaching, performance management, development, and workforce planning.
  • Deep experience with cloud compute, SaaS, hosting, data processing, professional services, and technology supplier agreements.
  • Ability to advise on data privacy, data security, AI, and general commercial risk.
  • Strong judgment and ability to make risk-based decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with a business-oriented approach.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage escalations, drive results through others, and improve team operations.
  • Track record of building capable, inclusive, and accountable teams.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $210,161–$432,684 USD for US-based applicants.
  • Eligible for equity.
  • Flexible remote work model; the role may be based anywhere in the country.
  • In-office collaboration required only 1–2 times every six months.
  • Pinterest benefits and culture programs are available to eligible employees.

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