Senior Legal Counsel, Team Lead

Senior Legal Counsel, Team Lead

Rapid7’s legal team is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel, Team Lead whose focus will be all things commercial including drafting, negotiations and management of existing contractual relationships and will work on real projects that will help us grow and scale. The Senior Legal Counsel will also serve as a team lead and mentor more junior members of the team with a path to becoming a manager on the team.

About the Team

The Legal Team at Rapid7 is in charge of contract practices, privacy and data protection, intellectual property, export law, corporate governance, litigation, international legal issues, employment laws, regulatory matters and compliance.

About the Role

The Senior Legal Counsel will work closely with internal stakeholders (Go-To Customer) and all of our external stakeholders, namely our customers, partners and suppliers. The Senior Legal Counsel will be involved in working with sales, the channel/partner teams, direct sales, customer success/renewals, and the procurement side. They will be working on software license agreements, non-disclosure agreements, services agreements, statements of work, contract questions, etc.

Rapid7 is a fast-paced work environment and we look for team members who crave learning new skills and aren't afraid to tackle big projects. Our ideal candidate is someone who is not only eager to help, and achieve success as a team, but also thoughtful about the work they are doing and able to think critically about the best way to accomplish goals and develop teammates.

In this role, you will:

1. support a large organization’s commercial goals with day to day partnership in a high volume, high velocity setting;
2. serve as a mentor to more junior team members;
3. Negotiate with customers (from mid-market & SMB to Fortune 500 enterprises) and manage the various legal relationships that exist primarily with the company’s customers, partners and vendors;
4. translate complex legal requirements and advice into plain English, day-to-day practical guidance for non-lawyer business stakeholders including sales leadership;
5. create and deliver trainings to global sales and other stakeholders on a regular and ad-hoc basis;
6. independently negotiate and manage the relationship lifecycle of large technology partnerships;
7. identify, lead and collaborate on a number of related projects such as contract updates, leading legal review in cross-functional collaborations, and improving internal processes.

The skills you’ll bring include:

1. admission to and in good standing with the Massachusetts bar (or equivalent with in house waiver/registration);
2. 7+ years of experience with commercial negotiations, including saas and services agreements;
3. Experience negotiating with enterprise customers;
4. A strong work ethic with a healthy sense of humor.

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. Teams reflecting a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don’t be shy - apply today.

About Rapid7

Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD) helps organizations across the globe protect what matters most so innovation can thrive in an increasingly connected world. Our comprehensive technology, services, and community-focused research simplify the complex for security teams, helping them reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, be in 10 places at once, and shut down attacks. We’re on a mission to make security solutions easier to use and access so we can bring safety and resilience to more people. With more than 10,000 customers across 140+ countries, Rapid7 is a leader in cybersecurity that has earned numerous industry accolades and recognition for our technology and culture.