Vice President, Commercial Legal Affairs

Responsibilities

• Serve as a representative of the Legal Leadership Team among the company's senior leadership to drive the Company strategy, goals and culture into the organization.
• Juris doctorate degree from an accredited U.S. law school and active state bar membership in good standing
• At least 15 years of relevant legal experience with an in-house position at technology companies directly supporting a sales organization, preferably during the growth-to-great phase of its lifecycle.
• Demonstrated experience in providing both tactical and strategic legal leadership to contribute to overall business initiatives in a collabo

Benefits

Additional Information

Freshworks is looking for an experienced legal professional with a strong understanding of AI powered SaaS business models to help lead our world-class commercial legal team. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, this role requires a collaborative and pragmatic team player who can proactively lead the global commercial legal team, navigate escalations, design legal operations and drive and manage multiple complex customer negotiations and commercial projects through to completion. This role requires a balance of strategic judgment and operational excellence, along with the ability to lead through complexity and utilize technology to drive execution at global scale. Superb project management, transactional, analytical, written and verbal communication skills are critical, particularly in conveying issues and topics with various cross-functional leaders and executives. We are looking for someone with demonstrated leadership skills who is an excellent people manager that enjoys mentoring and training of a global team. You will be a core member of the Legal leadership team, partnering closely with peer leaders, including Deals Desk and Field Sales, as well as executives across Product, Engineering, and Finance. This role is based in our San Mateo (California) office. This role is hybrid, Tuesday - Thursday in office.

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