# Senior Corporate Counsel, Commercial Transaction

**Company:** [PagerDuty](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pagerduty)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $164k – $276k/yr
**Experience:** 9+ years
**Skills:** SaaS, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Contract Lifecycle Management, Legal Ai, Data Privacy, Data Security, Eu Ai Act, Nist Ai Risk Management Framework, Reseller Agreements, Licensing Agreements, Statements Of Work
**Posted:** 2026-08-17

> Advises go-to-market teams by drafting and negotiating SaaS, partnership, licensing, and other commercial transactions, including AI-related agreements. Requires a JD, bar admission, and at least nine years of technology transactional experience, with global, public-sector, privacy, or contract-automation experience preferred.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements end-to-end with customers and partners for SaaS offerings, including products with machine learning and generative AI features.
- Develop contract templates, standard methodologies, playbooks, and contract-lifecycle automation, including use of Legal AI tools.
- Advise go-to-market sales, services, and channel partner teams on customer and deal-related matters.
- Communicate complex matters clearly and provide practical solutions.
- Collaborate with finance, sales operations, security, product, support, and privacy teams on contractual terms.

## Requirements
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
- Admission to and good standing with the California or another State Bar Association.
- At least 9 years of broad-based technology transactional experience across multiple business lines and jurisdictions.
- Understanding of domestic and international regulatory requirements in SaaS and AI.
- Extensive experience with SaaS sales, reseller, strategic partnership, consulting partnership, licensing, and statement-of-work transactions.
- Experience supporting Sales and cross-functional teams, communicating business risks, and translating stakeholder feedback into contract language.
- Highly responsive, service-oriented, collaborative, independent, and results-driven.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience supporting global sales organizations and international transactions across time zones.
- Public-sector contracting experience with U.S. Federal and SLED customers and system integrators.
- Experience with regulated industries and data privacy and security frameworks relevant to AI deployment, including the EU AI Act and NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
- Experience with contract lifecycle management implementation, generative AI contract-review tools, templates, and sales training.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $164,000–$276,100 USD.
- Potential eligibility for bonus, commission, equity, and benefits.
- Comprehensive benefits, flexible work arrangements, company equity, ESPP, retirement or pension plan, paid vacation, paid holidays and sick leave, wellness days, paid parental leave, paid volunteer time, hack weeks, and mental wellness programs.
- Hybrid role requiring two days per week in the San Francisco office.

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