Commercial Counsel, Americas Details

Commercial Counsel, Americas

Zscaler - San Jose, CA

Employment Type : Full-Time

Company Description

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

Zscaler is seeking a talented, experienced, and business-oriented attorney to join its growing Legal team. In this position, you will partner with internal clients in the in managing, negotiating and executing commercial transactions for our commercial business in the US, supporting the South, Central, and East sales groups.

This is an outstanding opportunity to make a high impact contribution to a growing company on the cutting edge of cloud internet security. This role will require a high degree of self-sufficiency, organizational skills, proactivity and ability to enjoy a quick-paced and busy environment. This lawyer will be a part of small, supportive, fun, and friendly team.

Job Description

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements, including but not limited to Proof of Value/Evaluation Agreements, SaaS Subscription Agreements, Master Agreements, Reseller & Managed Service Agreements, and Technology Partnership Agreements.
• Negotiating data processing agreements (DPAs), business associate agreements (BAAs), and other similar agreements directly with customers, partners and vendors to support Zscaler’s sales, operations and compliance obligations.
• Proactively working with internal clients to improve and scale all aspects of the contract negotiation process.
• Advising internal teams to minimize risk while balancing business interests.
• Remaining current on applicable laws and regulations surrounding IP, privacy, security, and government contracting.
• Conducting periodic employee trainings on any or all of the above.
• Managing outside counsel as necessary.

• 5-8 years legal contracts experience at a leading law firm, in-house, or preferably a combination thereof.
• Law degree from an accredited U.S. law school and license to practice law in the U.S.
• Extensive commercial transactions background in technology and SaaS, especially dealing with Sales transactions.
• Experience working with large multi-national customers and partners.
• Experience with Data Privacy and Security issues in the technology space (CCPA, GDPR, etc.).
• Flexibility and eagerness to work hard in fast-paced environment and meet tight deadlines (especially at quarter end).
• Highly organized, process-driven and client-focused team player.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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What You Can Expect From Us:

• An environment where you will be working on cutting edge technologies and architectures
• A fun, passionate and collaborative workplace
• Competitive salary and benefits, including equity

Why Zscaler?

People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.

Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at https://www.zscaler.com.

Zscaler is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.