Commercial Contracts Attorney

What We Do...

PSPDFKit is the leading document processing and manipulation platform for developers and enterprise businesses. Our customers use our offering to create, edit, sign, and collaborate on documents in their applications across mobile, web, and all other major platforms. Were on a mission to empower developers with the tools needed to innovate beyond paper.

Nearly a billion end users in more than 150 countries rely on PSPDFKit every day, including industry leaders like Dropbox, DocuSign, SAP, IBM, Volkswagen, Fabasoft, Wolters Kluwer Deutschland, and the European Patent Office. Our software development kits enable companies to work smarter and faster, saving time and expenses along the way, while effectively replacing the need for paper processes.

What You Will Do...

The Commercial Contracts Attorney is responsible for drafting, negotiating, and reviewing legal contracts related to PSPDFKits commercial contracts. This role plays a crucial role in ensuring all contracts adhere to the law while safeguarding the companys interests. Your main internal customer will be the sales team, so your main counterparties will be customers legal and procurement departments. PSPDFKits Legal team is organized within the Operations group, and the position also involves opportunities to improve, streamline, and manage internal business processes, help to execute strategic experiments and new initiatives, and provide assistance and guidance across a wide spectrum of our companys teams and projects.

Negotiating and Drafting Agreements

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to negotiate, draft, and review customer and vendor agreements.
• Ensure contracts are legally sound and align with the companys objectives.
• Balance risk mitigation with aggressive sales goals in a collaborative, collegial manner.

Process Streamlining

• Establish scalable contracting processes and templates to enhance efficiency.
• Help set up systems that streamline the contracting process and lead to faster contract turnaround times.

Advisory Role:

• Act as an advisor to the General Counsel and leadership team, providing legal guidance on contractual matters so that they have the legal information necessary to make informed decisions and grant approvals for business risks.
• Advise on customer disputes, contract enforcement, and compliance with our contractual obligations.
• Contribute to corporate initiatives such as mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships.

About You...

Education and Licensing

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school.
• Active attorneys license, preferably in North Carolina.

Experience

• 2+ years of relevant legal experience. Relevant non-legal business experience can also be counted towards this requirement.
• Exposure to international legal/commercial terms, particularly those relevant to SaaS contracts.
• Experience with Contract Management Software is a plus.

Skills and Attributes

• Capable of drafting and negotiating routine contract provisions autonomously and complex contract provisions with minimal oversight.
• Negotiation Skills: Ability to negotiate and draft agreements that align with the companys objectives.
• Attention to Detail: Proficiency in documenting complex contractual arrangements with meticulous attention to detail.
• Collaboration: Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work with internal stakeholders and external experts.
• Legal Advisory: Ability to provide legal guidance on contractual matters. Must be able to identify risk and evaluate fact patterns to advise on the application of the law (may require some oversight). Ability to identify legal risks and develop strategic and tactical ways to minimize such risks.
• Process Streamlining: Experience in establishing efficient contracting processes and templates.
• A persistent desire to learn and improve, both individually and with your teammates.
• An enduring belief that your commitment, effort, and teamwork can impact the world around you for the better.

If you are a junior-level attorney seeking an exciting, fast-paced environment and have a knack for detail and proactive collaboration, consider joining our team!

About Us...

In 2021, PSPDFKit announced its first strategic growth investment led by Insight Partners, a New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm focused on growth-stage software and technology companies. Insights investment, which totals more than $115 million, is being used to accelerate product growth, sales & marketing efforts, and fund strategic acquisitions, further expanding the capabilities of PSPDFKits highly adopted document processing platform.

PSPDFKit hires people who are curious, creative, communicative, and collaborative. Were a highly cross-functional organization, and were committed to tackling challenging problems so our customers can focus on building great products.

We are a globally distributed company with a mostly remote engineering team. Some roles work a hybrid schedule in one of our offices in US, UK, France, and Austria. To ensure overlap with most of the team across the US, Europe and Asia, this position must work from the Eastern US time zone and be located in Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, or Virginia for payroll processing. Preference will be given to candidates within a commuting distance of our Raleigh, North Carolina office.

We Value...

• Continuous improvement
• Feedback
• Transparency
• People
• Creativity
• Character

For a deeper understanding of our core values, please visit our website.

PSPDFKit is an equal opportunity employer with people from many different cultures and countries. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, skill sets, perspectives, as well as providing our employees with a work environment free of harassment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, marital status, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other non-merit factor. Wed especially love to receive applications from individuals who are underrepresented in the tech industry.