Counsel II, Procurement at Cloudflare
What you'll do
In this role, you will work closely with global teams across Cloudflare to support worldwide operations and provide strategic, business-focused advice on a broad range of vendor-related contractual issues. You will be responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of complex contracts including colocation services, internet infrastructure, inbound SaaS and software licenses, logistics, sourcing, office lease, and marketing and media agreements. Your daily responsibilities will range from cross-border negotiations and drafting complex commercial terms to representing commercial legal at staff meetings and training sessions. You will help develop policies, processes, tools, and templates to streamline and improve commercial legal service delivery as part of Cloudflare’s evolving and growing commercial legal team. In this role, you will handle a high-volume of projects, meet short deadlines, and enjoy working in a dynamic environment.
Who you are
The ideal candidate for this role is:
- An unapologetic contract nerd with great attention to detail;
- Open-minded, fearless, approachable, and adaptable;
- A calculated risk-taker who is comfortable with ambiguity and competing demands; and
- A creative problem-solver and team player who has a thirst for knowledge and a desire for continued growth.
Desirable skills, knowledge, and experience
- 5-7 years of legal experience with at least 3 years working as in-house commercial counsel for a leading technology company
- Admitted to practice law in the US
- Highly skilled in contract drafting and negotiation with an advanced understanding of standard commercial contract terms
- Excellent interpersonal skills for facilitating collaboration by cultivating relationships and communicating with legal and cross-functional partners
- Substantive experience as the lead drafter and negotiator of complex, global agreements
- Strong IP licensing experience
- Experience negotiating against Fortune 500 and top tier law firms
- Strong communication and analytical skills with the ability to assess and articulate complex and nuanced legal issues clearly and concisely
- Solid understanding of state, federal, and international data privacy and data protection laws
- Experience drafting and negotiating data security standards and controls and familiarity with requirements (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27000, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP)
- Ability to consider and articulate legal risk against the financial and operational risks presented by the particular engagement
- Excellent time-management and organizational skills
Bonus Points:
- Experience with colocation and/or wholesale internet infrastructure agreements
- Ability to start work at Cloudflare within 2-4 weeks of your hire is highly preferred
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.
Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
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