# Senior Corporate Counsel

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: Vancouver
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: CAD 184,600 to CAD 267,700
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Corporate Counsel at Salesforce, you will play a key role in supporting Salesforce’s Sales organization in the Americas, structuring commercial transactions and drafting and negotiating commercial agreements primarily for direct sales to customers.

**Core Responsibilities & Scope**

- Commercial Contracting Expertise Under Pressure: Lead, negotiate, and close customer contracts under tight deadlines with customers in all industries and sectors other than Public Sector.

- Lead & Deliver at Speed: Provide rapid, business-savvy legal advice while effectively managing legal risk and ensuring compliance across private sector transactions.

- Cross-Functional Partnership: Work closely with sales, privacy, risk, operations and security teams to ensure smooth and efficient deal execution, and that agreements are consistent with internal corporate policies and processes.

- Process Efficiency & Innovation: Identify and implement legal process improvements to support rapid deal closure. Assist in developing training materials and provide training to the business on relevant legal topics and best practices.

- Have Fun While Doing It: Work hard, move fast, and bring a positive, solutions-driven approach to challenging situations. Look after yourself, your colleagues, and the company’s interests. Act with kindness and good humor.

**Minimum Requirements**

- Undergraduate degree and law degree from accredited schools

- Admission to the bar in one or more states

- Minimum 10 years of legal experience, with strong focus on commercial contracting

- Strong negotiation and drafting skills, particularly in technology transactions

- Excellent verbal and written English language communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

- Ability to coordinate, prioritize, and manage deadlines in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving, and demanding industry.

- Team-oriented and collaborative mindset.

- Proven track record ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with demanding internal clients.

- Familiar with and interested in technical concepts

- Highly adaptable and service-oriented attitude. Ability to handle pressure and provide thoughtful recommendations.

- A can-do attitude,proactive, autonomous, resilient, adaptable, eager to continually learn and develop professionally, and a team-first mindset.

- Kind and empathetic

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience as a people leader on an in-house Legal team

- Passion for Artificial Intelligence and transformational mindset

- Substantive expertise in software-as-a-service and professional services transactions

- Substantial experience in supporting sales as an internal client

**Benefits**

- Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best.

For British Columbia-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is CAD 184,600 to CAD 267,700.

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## Skills

### Required
- commercial contracting
- legal advice
- compliance
- negotiation
- drafting
- English language communication
- technical concepts
- process efficiency
- innovation

### Nice to have
- Artificial Intelligence
- software-as-a-service
- professional services transactions
- people leadership

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