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Commercial Counsel

Join Fivetran as a Commercial Counsel to negotiate contracts and support EMEA sales with a focus on data and privacy.

Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
mid
Type
full time · Remote

Posted by employer 1 day ago

First seen on Joblaze 16 hours ago

Last verified on the company career page 16 hours ago

Skills & Technologies

What you'll build

  • Review, revise and negotiate commercial contracts
  • Serve as legal contact for EMEA sales team
  • Provide strategic guidance on contracting
  • Maintain and update commercial legal team playbooks
  • Contribute to best practices for contract lifecycle management

Must have

  • Approximately 5 years of experience in negotiating commercial contracts
  • Professional fluency in both English and French
  • Qualified solicitor/lawyer admitted to practice in Ireland, England & Wales, or another European jurisdiction

Nice to have

  • Experience using AI tools to enhance legal workflow efficiency
  • EU AI Act knowledge
  • Experience negotiating partner contracts

AI in the day-to-day

Experience using AI tools (such as Claude or similar) to enhance legal workflow efficiency.

Requirements

Experience
5 years

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.

Benefits

Paid Time Off Professional Development Health Insurance Mental Health Support Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

The Commercial Counsel at Fivetran focuses on drafting and negotiating customer agreements, primarily for the EMEA region, while collaborating with various internal teams to ensure alignment on legal matters. This role requires approximately five years of experience in commercial law, particularly in high-growth tech environments, and fluency in both English and French is essential for effective communication. Ideal candidates are detail-oriented legal professionals with a strong grasp of global commercial transactions and a proactive approach to process optimization. Fivetran is currently integrating with dbt Labs, creating a unique environment for legal professionals to contribute to a rap

Joblaze insights

Quick facts

Is the Commercial Counsel role remote?
Yes — Fivetran lists this as a fully remote position.
How much experience is required?
5–5 years of relevant experience for this Commercial Counsel role.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI tool, Ironclad, SFDC.
What seniority level is this role?
Fivetran targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Commercial Counsel role at Fivetran.

From the original posting

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About Us

Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.

Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on.

Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.

As we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.

During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.

About the Role

We’re looking for a business-minded Commercial Legal Counsel, with approximately 5 years of experience drafting and negotiating customer agreements with leading global and domestic organizations. This legal team member will be a key partner and liaison to other impacted Fivetran departments and stakeholders across the EMEA region. The ideal candidate is a high impact individual contributor who brings strong legal expertise, sound business judgment, and the ability to operate independently on commercial matters while working closely with senior members of the Commercial Legal Team.

This is a full-time, remote position based out of our London, UK office.

Professional fluency in both English and French is required, as this role will support customers and internal stakeholders across EMEA, including French-speaking markets.

Technologies You’ll Use

  • Ironclad, SFDC, AI tool

What You’ll Do

  • Review, revise and negotiate commercial contracts with customers and prospects, including customer paper agreements, for the EMEA region
  • Serve as one of the designated legal contacts on the EMEA commercial legal team to Fivetran’s EMEA enterprise sales team, including sales team education, training and communications related to any changes to customer agreements
  • Serve as one of the primary legal contacts on the commercial legal team, providing strategic guidance and oversight on contracting, enablement, and process improvement initiatives
  • Help maintain and update commercial legal team playbooks to help drive alignment with internal stakeholders
  • Support key template documents, including periodic revisions and improvements, and help operationalize templates into the contracts management and automation tool
  • Liaise with Fivetran’s product team to understand how product updates may impact existing or new customer agreements
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of best practices for commercial contract lifecycle management, ensuring efficient review, negotiation, and approval processes
  • Stay abreast of evolving legal trends and industry best practices in the SaaS and data privacy space, including EU/UK requirements
  • Complete other special projects given your interest areas and the needs of a rapidly scaling company and team

Skills We’re Looking For

  • A commercial attorney with approximately 5 years of experience in negotiating commercial contracts at high-growth technology companies, with interest in data and privacy.
  • A negotiator with a solid understanding of global commercial transactions, including experience in drafting, reviewing, and finalizing agreements, such as sales agreements, SaaS and enterprise B2B transactions, and data processing agreements (compliance with GDPR and other data protection laws), including on customer paper.
  • A process-oriented lawyer with an interest in building and optimizing processes and procedures in partnership with legal operations
  • A track record of achieving high-volume, quick turn on execution of agreements constructed to mitigate risk and support revenue growth, including customer paper review
  • A strong communicator with excellent written and verbal skills, able to clearly articulate complex legal concepts to both a technical and non-technical audience
  • High attention to detail, with demonstrated self-initiative that drives a desire for impact and achievement
  • Qualified solicitor/lawyer (or equivalent) admitted to practice in Ireland, England & Wales, or another European jurisdiction
  • Professional fluency in both English and French is required, including the ability to independently review, draft, and negotiate commercial agreements in both languages.

Bonus Skills​

  • Experience using AI tools (such as Claude or similar) to enhance legal workflow efficiency, including contract review, drafting, and research
  • EU AI Act knowledge
  • Experience negotiating partner contracts

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Perks and Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
  • Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays (including a year end Global Week of Rest), and volunteer days off
  • RSU stock grants*
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.

*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information

Click here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.


We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.

Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.

To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.

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