Senior Legal Counsel, (Commercial) - Kong

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About Kong:
Kong offers the leading API and service lifecycle management platform for modern software architectures. We power trillions of transactions daily for leading organizations through our end-to-end API platform. Our growing team of engineers and tech professionals work passionately to drive the future of API innovation and service control platforms to help our community and our customers stay at the forefront of technology and innovation. Kong is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by leading investors like Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures and Tiger Global.

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced commercial and generalist lawyer to join as an early member of Kong’s legal team, responsible for helping support Kong’s sales growth. In this role, you will be a trusted partner to the EMEA revenue teams. You will also have the opportunity to provide support  to our APAC sales team until we have a legal team member in that region. You will draft, structure and negotiate customer contracts with some of the world’s biggest brands in financial services, technology, e-commerce and other industries. You will be called on to assess legal and business risks, make sound decisions, and provide advice on a broad range of issues in areas such as SaaS, privacy, security,  alliances, open-source software and intellectual property, and assist with other issues as they come up. You will also partner with the wider Kong Legal team to address other corporate, compliance and other legal issues, and help develop scalable, global processes.
 
You will report to Kong’s Senior Director, Legal, EMEA and APAC, based in London, UK.

We can hire in London, Paris, Germany or UK Remote

Last updated: 12 days ago

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