Lead Counsel, Strategic Alliances

The role

You will provide business-focused legal support for strategic technology partnerships and specialty initiatives. You will lead legal aspects of strategic alliance transactions and develop new processes to scale the partner practice.

What you will do

• Lead and manage all legal aspects of selected Strategic Alliance technology transactions
• Negotiate term sheets and run deal processes
• Review, draft, and negotiate documents
• Coordinate engagement from cross-functional stakeholders
• Facilitate closing of agreements and coordinate Board approvals with Corporate Legal and Finance
• Provide expert legal guidance and business-focused advice to clients and leadership
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and applicable laws
• Address integration and advisory issues post-signing
• Drive legal support for other strategic transactions or projects
• Develop new partnering motions, processes, and templates

Required qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience at a nationally recognized law firm and/or in-house legal department at a high-tech company
• J.D. from a top-tier law school
• Member of a state bar in good standing
• Understand AI/foundation model platform technology and related contract models
• Experience partnering around both open source and proprietary technologies, and cloud or data-platform product partnerships
• Familiarity with open source licensing models and their use with open weight models
• Fluent in various partnering models including OEM, resale, and marketplace-driven transactions
• Ability to convey complex legal concepts clearly and concisely
• Experience managing multi-faceted projects
• Ability to operate independently and interact with senior management

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.