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Who We Are:
Socure is redefining identity verification with groundbreaking technology, supporting myriad organizations with the most accurate authentication tools in the industry.
What we build helps businesses scale faster, stop fraud, and ultimately allows millions of people who are excluded from the digital economy (due to outdated fraud detection models) to take part in it like everyone else.
Our culture is about innovation, winning, and customer obsession. We are full of top performers that prioritize excellence and results, as well as support for one another, on the path to achieving our mission: to verify 100% of good identities in real time and completely eliminate identity fraud for every applicant on the internet.
What the Role Is:
Socure's legal team is adding a Senior Commercial Counsel position. Reporting to the Lead Commercial Counsel, you will have a chance to help shape the company’s legal function, build processes and policies, partner with sales, finance, product, and development teams, and mentor and lead other attorneys. We offer an exciting, fast paced company environment, with a shared mission to eliminate identify fraud and take over the identity verification market.
This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about their work, enjoys taking ownership of projects and identifying pragmatic solutions.
This is a full time position based remotely in the US.
What you’ll do:
- Advise on a broad range of commercial matters and support our sales teams on deal structure and contract negotiations
- Learn Socure’s technology product/service offerings
- Review, draft, negotiate, and interpret a wide range of technology and commercial contracts including SaaS agreements, Partner/Reseller, NDAs, Evaluations, vendor contracts
- Use and build upon your knowledge of legal issues relating to IP, Licensing, Data Use, Privacy, Regulatory compliance
- Become an expert on Socure's products and business models, help us bring new offerings to market
- Be responsible for identifying and advising on risk and offer creative risk mitigation solutions
- Prepare, maintain and improve template agreements, playbooks, operational guidance
- Provide guidance and mentorship to more junior team members.
What you’ll bring:
- JD from an accredited law school and active Bar membership
- 4-8 years of post JD experience negotiating sales-side SaaS agreements
- Law Firm, Data Use/Licensing and fintech experience preferred; public sector a plus
- You understand the commitment and hard work involved in working at a successful, fast growing start-up.
- Voice your opinion and a drive for continuous improvement
- Ability to independently manage and own multiple projects with varying deadlines; the ability to make decisions under ambiguous circumstances.
- A focus on closing deals and finding pragmatic solutions to any issue you encounter
- Adapt to change in a fast paced, dynamic environment
- Collaborative partnership and diplomatic communication with multiple constituencies
Perks & Benefits:
- Competitive base salary
- Equity - every employee is a stakeholder in our upside
- Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
- Parental leave and fertility support
- Flexible PTO
- 401K with company match
- Stipend to supply your home office
- Annual professional development stipend
A Message on COVID-19:
Socure's number one priority is to safeguard the health and well-being of our team members, our families and our communities. During this unprecedented time, we are closely monitoring COVID-19 developments and updating our response plan quarterly. We are regularly soliciting feedback from our employees to help inform our return-to-office strategy. For our team members who loved going into the office, we are looking forward to meeting once again! But until then, we are striving to ensure that Socureans have the resources and support they need to excel from home. This includes a work-from-home stipend so you can build your home office and fun, virtual events so you can continue to feel connected to your coworkers.
