Associate Commercial Counsel at Dropbox

Ideal for a commercial attorney with a J.D. and at least two years of experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements, including SaaS and lice

Work type: remote

Location: Remote - US: Select locations

Salary: $166,800 – $225,600/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

Ideal for a commercial attorney with a J.D. and at least two years of experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements, including SaaS and licensing. You should be a proactive problem-solver passionate about supporting business goals. Dropbox is offering a fully remote position with a generous salary range of $166,800 to $225,600 USD per year, depending on your US location (Zone 2). This role provides broad exposure to various commercial transactions, supporting global sales and procurement strategies. * Minimum of 2 years practicing commercial law, focusing on drafting and negotiating SaaS, licensing, technology, equipment, and marketing agreements. * Experience managing client interactions and negotiating contracts directly. * Ability to simplify complex legal concepts for business teams. * Admission to the bar and in good standing.

Job Description

## Role Description

We’re looking for an Associate Commercial Counsel to be a key member of Dropbox’s global commercial legal team focusing on general commercial deal work, including both sales and procurement related deals, processes, and procedures. Reporting to the Senior Commercial Counsel - North America Lead, this role offers an exciting opportunity to have company-wide impact primarily supporting Dropbox’s global sales and procurement strategies and other cross functional teams.

This role is for an attorney in the commercial legal space with a client-first mindset and experience working closely with sales and procurement teams in a world class commercial legal function in support of Dropbox’s business goals. You’ll be part of a team of attorneys and professionals responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a high volume of complex commercial contracts with Dropbox vendors, customers, and other business partners around the world. You'll get an opportunity to gain experience handling a wide variety commercial transactions and partnering with our business teams to deliver efficient, scalable approaches to commercial matters.

The ideal candidate is a commercial attorney who has experience partnering with in-house business teams and is passionate about supporting the business and who thrives in solving legal, technology and business issues. The ideal candidate must be empathetic and a team player who is effective in collaborating with others, while being a proactive partner to internal business teams (and will hopefully get to enjoy a little fun and a few laughs along the way!).

## Responsibilities

• Engage personally in complex sales and procurement deals and work collaboratively with various company teams to implement company initiatives. Our team works on every kind of contract that Dropbox signs: sales, vendor procurement, marketing, M&A, real estate, infrastructure, etc. A lot of opportunity to learn different types of agreements and negotiation settings.

• Work with cross-functional business teams to implement innovative strategies to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of delivering commercial legal support to Dropbox’s business.

• Be an active and trusted leader, problem solver, and innovator to key stakeholders across the company.

• Develop and refine team playbooks, fallback guides, cross-functional resource documents, and training materials

• Minimum of 2+ years as a practicing commercial attorney, including substantive experience in drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements, including SaaS, licensing, technology, equipment, and marketing agreements

• Has experience managing and interacting directly with clients and opposing counsel, has robust experience drafting and negotiating contracts themselves

• Ability to translate complex legal issues into clear and simple guidance, and to partner effectively across all levels of the company

• Passion for client service and efficiency

• High integrity, strong ethics, and an unflappable demeanor

• Self-starter, eagerness to learn both substantive law, negotiation skills and team policies and procedures

• J.D. with strong academic credentials and demonstrated record of success as a lawyer

• Member in good standing of bar and (if applicable) in-house counsel registration

• Desire or experience to work in a virtual first environment, demonstrated initiative qualities

• Experience as a commercial attorney in a law firm setting, with at least 1+ year of experience as an in-house attorney at a technology company

• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple types of cross-functional commercial matters, including customer facing agreements, M&A integration and support, and commercial disputes

• Expertise in data privacy law (e.g., CIPP certification), AI rules and regulations, and intellectual property

• Experience with developing and refining team playbooks, fallback guides, cross-functional resource documents, and training materials

• Experience partnering with globally distributed in-house business teams, particularly at SaaS companies to handle a high volume of complex commercial transactions

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2
$166,800—$225,600 USD

US Zone 3
$148,200—$200,600 USD

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