# Associate Commercial Counsel

**Company**: Dropbox
**Location**: Remote - Canada: Select locations
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $138,600-$187,500 CAD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dropbox/jobs/7723556
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## Description

We're looking for an Associate Commercial Counsel to join our global commercial legal team. As a key member of the team, you'll focus on general commercial deal work, including sales and procurement related deals, processes, and procedures. You'll report to the Senior Commercial Counsel - North America Lead and have the opportunity to make a company-wide impact by supporting Dropbox's global sales and procurement strategies and other cross-functional teams.

This role is for an attorney in the commercial legal space with a client-first mindset and experience working closely with sales and procurement teams 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 vendors, customers, and other business partners around the world.

Responsibilities:

- Engage personally in complex sales and procurement deals and work collaboratively with various company teams to implement company initiatives.

- Work with cross-functional business teams to implement innovative strategies to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of delivering commercial legal support to Dropbox's business.

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

- Develop and refine team playbooks, fallback guides, cross-functional resource documents, and training materials.

Requirements:

- Minimum of 2+ years as a practicing commercial attorney, including substantive experience in drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements, including SaaS, licensing, technology, equipment, and marketing agreements.

- Has experience managing and interacting directly with clients and opposing counsel, has robust experience drafting and negotiating contracts themselves.

- 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.

- High integrity, strong ethics, and an unflappable demeanor.

- Self-starter, eagerness to learn both substantive law, negotiation skills and team policies and procedures.

- 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.

- Desire or experience to work in a virtual first environment, demonstrated initiative qualities.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience as a commercial attorney in a law firm setting, with at least 1+ year of experience as an in-house attorney at a technology company.

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

- Expertise in data privacy law (e.g., CIPP certification), AI rules and regulations, and intellectual property.

- Experience with developing and refining team playbooks, fallback guides, cross-functional resource documents, and training materials.

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

## Skills

### Required
- Commercial law
- Contract negotiation
- Drafting
- Client service
- Efficiency
- Strong ethics
- J.D.
- Bar membership

### Nice to have
- Data privacy law
- AI rules and regulations
- Intellectual property
- Team playbooks
- Fallback guides
- Cross-functional resource documents
- Training materials