Mixpanel - Procurement Counsel
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Requirements
• JD degree or equivalent degree from an accredited school, along with the necessary professional licensing to practice law • 3-5 years of relevant experience, with specific experience negotiating SaaS agreements. • Direct experience with a variety of legal matters, including strategic business agreements, information security and compliance, intellectual property rights, and privacy related matters including negotiating data protection agreements and advising on data privacy questions and concerns. • Familiarity with legal and commercial issues arising from AI and machine learning technologies, including experience reviewing and negotiating AI-related contract terms such as data usage rights, model training limitations, and liability allocation for AI outputs. • Strong negotiating skills with both legal and commercial issues, and a demonstrated ability to create legal, defensive, or proactive strategies. • Excellent knowledge and understanding of contract law and basic corporate law. • A champion of change with a proven ability to build operationally excellent processes and practices. • Strong interpersonal and presentation skills, with the ability to develop a strong rapport and working relationship with business counterparts across the enterprise to help drive the delivery of effective legal services. • Outstanding communication skills, both verbal and written, and a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships. • Strategic thinker with a focus on practical solutions that are geared towards reducing company risk while being fair and balanced. • Demonstrated ability to work flexibly and efficiently, prioritize work and meet demanding deadlines in a fast-paced environment, especially during quarter-end. • Willingness to roll up sleeves and take on tasks both big and small with an eagerness to learn; a collaborative approach with a low ego in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment across a range of time zones. • Strong sense of ownership and responsiveness with the ability to juggle multiple assignments and prioritize appropriately to support cross-functional projects.
Responsibilities
• Strategically partner with internal business stakeholders to draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements including vendor agreements for software, professional services, corporate services, equipment, data licenses, NDAs, independent contractor engagements, and event sponsorships to ensure that Mixpanel, its customers, personnel, and partners are protected. • Evaluate risk factors impacting business decisions and anticipate unique legal issues that could affect the company, providing timely and practical legal advice on agreement structure, approval processes, and company policies. • Assess and advise on risks associated with vendors' use of artificial intelligence (AI), including evaluating AI-related contractual provisions, model training, and data usage rights, output ownership, indemnification implications, accuracy and liability disclaimers, and compliance with applicable AI regulations. • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including Marketing, Finance, Engineering, Procurement and People Operations, Privacy, and Security, to develop processes and enforce applicable policies as they relate to global commercial contracting. • Supplement and create processes, templates, and playbooks and support the deployment of software and systems for efficient and scalable contracting to better serve business needs. • Enable and train internal stakeholders by providing direct guidance on processes, structure, and commonly requested revisions, non-standard terms, and respond to general process questions timely and accurately. • Stay informed of emerging laws, regulations, and judicial decisions relevant to our business; conduct thorough research to understand the implications of these developments, and communicate or make necessary changes to controls, policies, and procedures to appropriate parties. • Ability to prioritize and triage high volume of requests balancing risk, criticality, and resource constraints. • Manage escalations and collaborate across other teams to provide counsel regarding the business environment and objectives. • Support and manage a variety of ad hoc projects with the Legal team as they arise; be extremely versatile, highly responsive, and pitch in for anything needed in the Legal department, even if it’s unfamiliar or not in your lane.
Benefits
• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care • Mental Wellness Benefit • Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays • Enhanced Parental Leave • Volunteer Time Off • Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break • please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary* • Culture Values • Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress. • Make Bold Bets: • Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes. • Innovate with Insight: • One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone. • One Team: • Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations. • Candor with Connection: • Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star. • Champion the Customer: • Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible. • Powerful Simplicity: • We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.
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