Job Description

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About the Company

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your lifes work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and emailwith AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

About the Role

As Commercial Counsel, you will have the opportunity to help build and support Notions rapidly emerging Enterprise customer motions. In this role you will be expected to serve as a deal expert helping to not only negotiate complex AI SaaS agreements with key customers, but also act as advisor and coach to our account teams and other crossfunctional partners. If you enjoy using your deep industry experience and technology transaction expertise to support revenuegenerating functions, this role is for you.

What You'll Achieve

• Have broad responsibility for providing practical daytoday commercial legal support in the AMER region for the sales, marketing, and customer success teams with a focus on supporting the Enterprise segment
• Collaborate with Product Legal team on product and operational items that impact customer agreements and gotomarket initiatives
• Negotiate and independently identify creative legal solutions for inbound commercial transactions, including customer subscription agreements and data processing agreements
• Identify and independently pursue process improvements for buyside supporting motions
• Develop and revise contract templates and playbooks as necessary, based on changes in our product offerings, organization, and law

Skills You'll Need to Bring

• Admitted to the California State Bar, New York State Bar, or Registered InHouse Counsel and in good standing
• 10+ years of combined experience practicing as a commercial attorney within a law firm or software technology company
• 2+ years inhouse experience at a SaaS and/or AI technology company
• Privacy and artificial intelligence subjectmatter expertise, including privacy regulations (GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, CCPA, etc.) and AI regulations (EU AI Act) with the ability to incorporate evolving requirements into customerfacing agreements
• Experience driving commercial transactions, SaaS, and enterprise B2B transactions
• Strong negotiation skills, including ability to explain nuanced legal concepts to internal and external parties and tailor approach to the audience
• Excellent drafting, written and verbal communication skills and ability to adapt legal requirements in balanced, creative and pragmatic ways to facilitate communication at all levels of the organization
• Ability to directly interact and build meaningful relationships and trust with internal and external clients and leaders
• Demonstrated interest in artificial intelligence solutions in a work setting
• Resilience, resourcefulness, and the ability to make recommendations and decisions with imperfect facts
• Independent and strategic thought combined with excellent teamplayer qualities and a willingness to take on additional responsibilities
Nice To Haves
• Certified Information Privacy Professional or equivalent
• Prior experience with a fastgrowing technology company
• Experience supporting channel and reseller partnerships
• Experience supporting customers in the financial services industry
• Familiarity using Notion

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If youre excited about a role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If youre a builder at heart, share our company values, and are enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Equal Opportunity Employment

Notion is proud to be an equalopportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Compensation and Benefits

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the roles scope and complexity, and the candidates experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $280,000340,000 per year.

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Seniority level

MidSenior level

Employment type

Fulltime

Job function

Legal

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Software Development

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