Sr. Counsel, Commercial (Healthcare & Life Sciences)

The role

This person will lead complex commercial transactions and negotiate healthcare-specific agreements for the Healthcare and Life Sciences sales teams. They will advise on data privacy, security, and AI-related contract terms while using AI-powered tools for legal workflows.

What you will do

• Lead complex commercial transactions from first engagement through signature
• Draft and negotiate SaaS MSAs, security and privacy terms, order forms, and statements of work
• Negotiate healthcare-specific agreements including business associate agreements and regulatory compliance requirements
• Partner with Sales, Deal Desk, Finance, Security, Privacy, and Product to resolve deal execution issues
• Advise on data privacy, information security, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, and open source software
• Improve templates, playbooks, fallback positions, guidance, and contracting processes
• Leverage AI tools to contribute to the team's adoption of AI-assisted legal workflows
• Provide concise, practical legal advice that balances legal risk with commercial objectives

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant technology transactions experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department
• Significant experience drafting, negotiating, and closing complex sell-side software, SaaS, and cloud transactions with enterprise customers
• Experience supporting customers in healthcare, life sciences, or other heavily regulated industries
• Working knowledge of HIPAA
• Experience negotiating or advising on business associate agreements and healthcare data privacy requirements
• Strong familiarity with data privacy, information security, intellectual property, and open source software
• Experience advising on AI-related contract terms, data use provisions, and emerging technology issues
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage sophisticated negotiations and exercise sound judgment
• Strong communication and prioritization skills
• Juris Doctor
• Active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction

Nice to have

• Experience supporting cloud, infrastructure, platform, or other technology companies

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity

About the company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.