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Posted March 14, 2024

Commercial Counsel

ShipBob, Inc.
Chicago, IL Full Time
Reference: ShipBobInc4385077005

As a member of the ShipBob Team, you will benefit from an environment where everything is achievable. We aim to be a place where you can: Write...

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As a member of the ShipBob Team, you will benefit from an environment where everything is achievable. We aim to be a place where you can:

  • Write Your Career Story. Because we are solving some of the most difficult problems in global commerce, you have the opportunity to write the story that will make your career.
  • Experience Global Impact and Global Connection. At ShipBob we benefit from diverse cultures and perspectives in service of the global community.
  • Grow With An Ownership Mindset. We believe that great innovation comes from great transparency. We are more resilient and more creative when we have an inclusive and transparent culture where everyone knows our strengths and opportunities.

Title: Commercial Counsel, Supply Chain

Location: Remote in these states: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, KS, KY, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI

Role Description:

As Commercial Counsel, you will play an integral role to support our rapidly growing and evolving tech enabled e-commerce platform that enables third party logistics, warehousing, fulfillment, and supply chain operations. You will work directly with the business, serving as lead counsel on strategic commercial initiatives, providing day-to-day advice, resolving issues that arise in existing commercial relationships, and handling pre-litigation disputes and inquiries. You will develop strategies for handling legal issues in creative, business-centric ways and you will build processes that address risk and allow the business flexibility and freedom to move quickly.

What youll do:

  • Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts in the US and internationally, including terms of service, warehousing and fulfillment agreements, carrier and transportation agreements, IP license agreements, partnership agreements, marketing agreements, procurement agreements, data processing agreements, etc.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with various teams such as Product, Engineering, Sales, 3PL Operations, and Procurement to collect input, ensuring our agreements appropriately reflect business needs.
  • Stay up to date on relevant industry, commercial, intellectual property, privacy and compliance issues.
  • Develop internal processes to drive growth and capture new learnings.
  • Efficiently manage outside legal resources.
  • Additional duties and responsibilities as necessary.

What youll bring to the table:

  • 5+ years of relevant commercial transactional experience, in-house and/or at a law firm.
  • Significant experience negotiating, drafting, and solving issues for various types of commercial contracts, including those relating to warehousing, logistics, and privacy.
  • Demonstrated entrepreneurial initiative - ability to self-manage, find creative ways to work through barriers, incident handling, actively learn necessary skills, and manage projects to completion with minimal supervision.
  • Privacy experience, both US and Internationally
  • Excellent written, oral, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Common sense, great judgment, and a good sense of humor.
  • J.D. from an accredited law school and membership in at least one state bar.

Classification: Exempt

Reports to: Associate General Counsel

Perks & Benefits:

  • Medical, Dental, Vision & Basic Life Insurance
  • Paid Maternity/Parental Leave Program
  • Flexible Time Off Program
  • Paid Sick Leave and Paid Emergency Leave
  • Floating Holidays (2 days/year)
  • Wellness Days (1 day/quarter)
  • 401K Match
  • Competitive Salary, Performance Bonus & Equity
  • Variety of voluntary benefits, such as, short term disability
  • Referral Bonus Program
  • Fun Culture >>> Check us out on Instagram (@lifeatshipbob)

ShipBob believes in transparency while providing a competitive total compensation package with a pay for performance approach. The expected base pay range for this position is $157,080 - $261,800.

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.

About You:

At ShipBob, were looking to bring on board people who embody our core values:

  • Be Mission-Driven. We want team members that are passionate about helping entrepreneurs improve their business, and bring that passion every day.
  • Be Humble. We have ambitious goals, and our team members understand that success or failure depends on us working together and leaving egos at the door.
  • Be Resilient. Logistics is a complicated business. So is software. We value team members that never give up and keep iterating until a problem is solved.
  • Be a Creative Problem Solver. As a startup, we value smart, innovative solutions to complex problems. We fall in love with the problem, not our favorite solution.
  • Be Safety Minded. Its not just talk; its the way you work.

About Us:

ShipBob is a cloud-based logistics platform that partners with thousands of e-commerce businesses to help make their entrepreneurial dreams a reality. We offer a full suite of fulfillment solutions for our merchants, including the ability to improve their transit times, shipping costs and deliver a best in class experience to their customers.

As one of the fastest growing tech companies in Chicago backed by blue-chip investors like Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, our goal is to continue to be the best fulfillment technology in the industry.

ShipBob provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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