Senior Commercial Counsel

Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden relationships and patterns across billions of data connections deeply, easily and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.

At Neo4j, we’re proud to be building the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers, helping them cure diseases, fight fraud, crush pandemics, and accomplish their most ambitious missions—even if it’s getting humans to Mars. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us @Neo4j.

At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.

As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Commercial Counsel to join our legal team, providing comprehensive commercial and transactional legal counsel and support. This role plays a critical part in safeguarding the company's legal interests, ensuring contract compliance, and contributing to the strategic decision-making process.

Responsibilities:

Legal Strategy and Advice:

• Provide legal counsel, guidance, and strategic advice to the organization's leadership and business units on commercial matters.
• Evaluate and mitigate legal risks associated with business operations and decision-making.
• Collaborate with executive management to develop and implement legal strategies that align with the company's mission and objectives.

Contract Management:

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts and agreements, including sales agreements, distribution agreements, licensing agreements, and procurement contracts.
• Ensure that contracts are compliant with applicable laws, regulations, and company policies.
• Manage contract templates and standard clauses.
• Experience using a contract lifecycle management tool.

Compliance and Regulatory Affairs:

• Monitor and ensure the organization's compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.
• Keep abreast of legal developments and their impact on the organization's commercial operations.

Vendor and Supplier Agreements:

• Review and negotiate vendor and supplier agreements to ensure favorable terms and compliance with legal and business requirements.
• Collaborate with procurement and supply chain teams on vendor relationships.

Intellectual Property:

• Protect and manage the organization's intellectual property, including trademarks, patents, and copyrights, in commercial contracts.
• Assist in licensing and IP-related agreements.

Corporate Governance:

• Ensure compliance with corporate governance requirements and practices in commercial transactions.
• Manage corporate filings and regulatory requirements related to commercial operations.

Team Leadership:

• Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment within the legal department.
• Provide guidance, mentoring, and training to team members.

Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school.
• Active license to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction.
• 4+ years of experience practicing law, with a focus on commercial and transactional matters.
• In-house legal experience is preferred.
• Strong understanding of legal principles, commercial law, and regulatory compliance.
• Excellent analytical, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

The annual base salary range for this position based in the United States is listed below. This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on Neo4j’s compensation practices, job related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and trainings, in addition to geographic location. Based on the factors above, Neo4j utilizes the full width of the range.

In addition to the range below, US employees are eligible for a stock option grant and certain roles are eligible for an annual bonus. Employees in this position are also eligible to participate in the Company’s standard benefit programs, which currently include the following: medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k), paid time off, and certain leaves of absence.

Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database in the world. We have customers in every industry across the globe, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j.

• Neo4j is one of the fastest scaling technology companies in this industry. Well over $100M ARR and still rapidly growing.
• Raised biggest round of funding in all of database history ($325M Series F).
• Backed by world class investors like Google Ventures (GV), Neo4j has raised over $582M in funding and is currently valued at $2Bn. This puts them among the most well-funded database companies in history.
• 75% of Fortune 100 use Neo4j with more than 800 enterprise customers including Comcast, eBay, Adobe, Lyft, UBS, IBM, Volvo Cars and many more.
• Emil Eifrem (CEO) has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation and customer success.
• Countless awards in the industry. Massive Enterprises and individual developers/ data scientists love Neo4j. Strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
• A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact Study pegged Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.

Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all of the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.

One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.

Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:

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