Senior Counsel, Technology & Strategic Partnerships

The role

You will own strategic partnerships, commercial support for strategic initiatives, and commercial support for M&A diligence and integration. You will draft and negotiate complex partnership agreements and work with cross-functional teams to build playbooks and processes.

What you will do

• Draft, review, and negotiate complex partnership agreements including OEM, technology licensing and alliance.
• Negotiate IP ownership, license scope, data rights, and AI terms.
• Work with Product and GTM teams on new offerings and translate them into clear customer and partner terms.
• Conduct commercial contract diligence on acquisition targets.
• Identify material risks in customer, partner, and IP agreements.
• Support post-close contract integration and assignment workstreams.
• Give practical, business-focused advice to deal teams.
• Help build the templates, playbooks, and processes that let the function scale.
• Coordinate with commercial, product/IP/AI, privacy, security, and procurement legal colleagues.

Required qualifications

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited U.S. law school or equivalent
• Active license to practice law in a U.S. state
• 8 or more years of legal experience with a focus on technology transactions
• Strong working knowledge of IP licensing and complex technology agreements, including OEM, strategic alliance and SaaS
• Fluency with AI tools and a track record of using them to work faster and smarter
• Proven ability to independently negotiate complex agreements with sophisticated counterparties
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Combination of top-tier law firm and in-house experience at a technology company
• Cybersecurity and/or enterprise SaaS industry experience
• Channel, OEM, and MSSP/service-provider program experience
• Experience with terms for agentic or autonomous AI products, including training data, output rights and liability allocation
• M&A experience, particularly commercial diligence and post-close contract integration

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flexible time off
• Paid company holidays and paid sick time
• Gender-neutral parental leave
• Grandparent leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Life and disability insurance
• Health and dependent care FSA
• Voluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

About the company

SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. Their AI-native platform unifies protection across endpoint, cloud, identity, data, and AI systems.