Kong

Senior Corporate Counsel, Commercial (US East)

Chicago, United States. Posted a month ago

The role

This attorney will support strategic sales growth in the Americas East region. You will draft, structure, and negotiate customer contracts and support US federal government customers.

What you will do

  • Lead complex SaaS and on-premises commercial negotiations
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to Kong’s Americas sales team
  • Review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of other commercial agreements
  • Help ensure compliance with laws and regulations regarding AI, IP, privacy, security and government contracting
  • Partner with Finance, Revenue Operations and Customer Assurance to support the end-to-end contract close process
  • Advise internal teams on legal matters and provide general commercial legal advice
  • Assist with the development of positions regarding artificial intelligence and products

Required qualifications

  • Law degree
  • Member in good standing of the applicable state bar or eligible to be a registered in-house counsel
  • Minimum 7-10 years of experience practicing law both in private practice and in-house
  • Demonstrated experience in negotiating and closing complex SaaS and software contracts with large, sophisticated customers
  • Collaborative, and willing to build something together as a team
  • Experience with federal government procurement and customers
  • Great judgment, and an ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships
  • Working knowledge of intellectual property, data governance and information security/privacy matters
  • High professional and personal standards, and a commitment to inclusiveness
  • Attention to detail and an ability to view legal issues within the context of business objectives

Nice to have

  • preferably with late-stage private and/or early-stage public technology companies

About the company

Kong Inc. is the AI Connectivity Company building the connectivity layer of AI. Their unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic.