Senior Commercial Counsel

About Alpha Sense:

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on Alpha Sense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, Alpha Sense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by Alpha Sense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, Alpha Sense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, Alpha Sense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

About the Team:

Alpha Sense has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Commercial Counsel to join our legal team. Legal is a critical function in supporting the company’s fast-paced, high-growth environment and acts as a true business partner to all of our leaders across the organization. We work hand-in-hand with cross-functional teams to provide solutions to enable and empower the company to achieve substantial targets while managing risk and protecting our business.

About the Role:

This role can either be based in our New York, New York headquarters or remote in the USA, with a preference for the Eastern Time zone. Regardless of location, Eastern Time working hours are a minimum requirement.

The Senior Commercial Counsel is primarily responsible for leading the drafting, reviewing, and negotiating revenue-generating contracts with our customers. The Senior Commercial Counsel will partner with all levels and functions of the business, including Sales, Information Security, Product, and Content, among others, to help Alpha Sense achieve its goals. This role is essential to our growth and will have an immediate impact in our dynamic, fast-paced culture.

What You’ll Do:

• Take ownership of drafting, reviewing, and negotiating the company’s commercial contracts supporting the sales organization.
• Help create and enhance playbooks to establish company parameters and scale the legal function as the company grows.
• Provide legal and strategic business advice to ensure agreements are consistent with playbooks, internal policies, and processes.
• Remain informed of the shifting legal landscape relating to applicable laws, regulations, and industry guidance that impact commercial agreements.

Who You Are:

• J.D. from a top law school and admitted to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial software and technology subscription agreements.
• Ability to manage a high volume of commercial contracts, including Master Services Agreements, SOWs, Order Forms, DPAs, and AI Addenda.
• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to support difficult positions in a firm and patient manner and to drive deals to close by devising creative solutions that protect Alpha Sense’s interests.
• Business-friendly and pragmatic mindset that maintains a commensurate balance of legal risk.
• Effective communicator and relationship builder who enjoys working directly with stakeholders on the front line of negotiations.
• A mix of law firm and in-house experience is preferred; prior experience at a technology company, with AI, data privacy, information security, intellectual property, or financial services is a plus.

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.

You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.

Base Compensation Range:

$170,000—$200,000 USD

Alpha Sense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling Alpha Sense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. Alpha Sense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at Alpha Sense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of Alpha Sense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

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