# Corporate Counsel - East Coast/UK

**Company:** [Drata](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/drata)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Legal
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Contract Drafting, Contract Negotiation, Saas Agreements, Data Processing Agreements, Privacy Law, GDPR, CCPA, Corporate Governance, Legal Compliance, B2B SaaS
**Posted:** 2026-05-22

> In-house Commercial Counsel supporting sales, procurement, and privacy matters at a fast-growing SaaS company. Draft/negotiate commercial agreements and drive legal operations for a remote East Coast or UK-based attorney.

## Job Description

## What you'll do
- Draft, review and negotiate a variety of agreements including commercial transactions, SAs, DPAs, NDAs, and other commercial matters with domestic and international parties including clients, partners, and vendors
- Assist in management and maintenance of company’s standard contract templates and playbooks that streamline the contracting process, reduce friction with customers, while mitigating risk for the company
- Ensure compliance with security and privacy regulations and standards, securities regulations, corporate governance requirements and other relevant legal and statutory requirements
- Proactively address evolving regulatory and governance compliance environment, including changes in laws, regulations, regulatory focus areas and industry best practices
- Provide oversight and leadership for all legal needs of the business, advising across business functions

## What you'll bring
- A lawyer who is committed and embodies our core values and mission; demonstrates them each day
- Ability to identify and manage risk and to provide practical, results-oriented legal advice that helps the company achieve its business objectives
- A pragmatic execution-oriented transactional lawyer who can promptly solve day-to-day commercial contracting issues and highlight any key or novel risks that arise
- Clear communicator who can simplify, organize, and deliver information and advise in a way others can understand and act upon
- Strategic thinking with exceptional organizational skills and desire to create and grow the Company’s legal function
- Client focused and sensible approach to handling complex legal issues
- Self-Starter who is ready to work in a fast-paced start-up environment
- Excellent negotiating skills, keen analytical abilities, a pragmatic approach to problem solving, as well as a track record of success in handling complex business and legal issues in a fast-paced, agile and evolving technology-driven business environment

## Experience and Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience (in house or law firm), 3+ years of relevant SaaS commercial experience
- Proven success working effectively across business units and internal functions to efficiently resolve complex business and risk management issues while considering many non-legal variables, such as culture, brand, communications, government relations, tax, revenue recognition, insurance, finance and other functional areas
- Experience negotiating B2B SaaS, specifically in software security and compliance
- Experience working in a start-up atmosphere is highly desirable
- Prior Experience building out and leading in-house legal teams that are committed to strategic differentiation and high quality execution
- Proficient with G-Suite (Gmail, Google Docs, etc), DocuSign, Slack
- Working knowledge of scalable a contract database solution, and general working knowledge of finance invoicing systems, and project management software
- High technical proficiency and critical thinking skills to ensure we're thoughtfully challenging ourselves in the design of our internal systems
- Product counseling, privacy, and cybersecurity experience or interest is a plus

## How we support you
- Shared Success: stock equity / RSUs
- Health & Wellness: Up to 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents, along with comprehensive wellness benefits and healthcare concierge services
- Financial Well-being: 401(k) plan, company-paid life and disability insurance, tax-advantaged spending accounts, and a range of discounted voluntary offerings
- Family Support: paid Parental Leave policy (after six months), access to Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits
- Growth & Development: Generous annual stipends for both professional and personal development, access to a wide range of internal learning opportunities
- Time Off & Flexibility: flexible vacation policy, paid holidays

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