# Vice President, Legal Commercial

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote, US
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Vice President, Legal Commercial to own the vision, strategy, and execution of its global commercial legal function.

As a key member of the Legal leadership team, you will report to the Chief Legal Officer and be a trusted executive partner to the CRO, CFO, and broader GTM organization.

Responsibilities:

- Define and execute the long-term strategy for GitLab's global commercial legal function

- Serve as the primary legal executive partner to the CRO, CFO, and GTM leadership

- Build, lead, and develop a world-class team of commercial attorneys, contract managers, and legal ops professionals

- Set enterprise-wide standards for commercial contracting

- Benchmark AI-specific contractual terms across the enterprise SaaS market

- Work in sync with the CLO Chief of Staff on the continuous improvement and optimization of GitLab's CLM system

- Lead GitLab's most significant strategic partnerships

- Oversee AI governance contracting across customer, partner, and supplier agreements

- Lead legal support for GitLab's facility clearance requirements and public sector commercial contracting

- Lead the procurement legal function covering global vendor contracting

- Serve as a senior voice on cross-functional initiatives involving Legal, Finance, Product, Revenue Operations, and Procurement

Requirements:

- 15+ years of combined law firm and in-house experience

- J.D. or U.S. law degree equivalent with bar admission in good standing in at least one U.S. state

- 5+ years leading and scaling teams of attorneys and contract managers

- Hands-on experience owning or leading a CLM implementation or expansion

- Demonstrated fluency in AI governance and product legal issues

- Deep expertise in enterprise SaaS contracting, strategic partnerships, data privacy, and complex partner, channel, and public sector agreements

- Visionary but execution-oriented leadership style

- Exceptional executive presence and communication skills

Benefits:

- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being

- Flexible Paid Time Off

- Team Member Resource Groups

- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

- Growth and Development Fund

- Parental leave

- Home office support

## Skills

### Required
- commercial contracting
- strategic partnerships
- AI governance
- CLM implementation
- enterprise SaaS contracting
- data privacy
- public sector agreements

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