Black Duck Software, Inc. - Senior Legal Counsel
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Requirements
• An experienced in-house cybersecurity or SaaS commercial counsel who understands security not just legally, but operationally. • Strong familiarity with how security programs, compliance frameworks, and customer due diligence influence contracting. • Confidence advising senior leaders on tradeoffs between speed, security, and risk. • A practical, business forward mindset — focused on enabling deals while protecting long term trust. • Ability to work independently, manage complex deal flow, and exercise sound judgment without excessive escalation. • Strong leadership and management skills and experience. • Proven ability to build efficient processes for streamlined contracting in a fast-moving global contracts department, including use of AI tools and experience building process and playbook in collaboration with the team.
Responsibilities
• Draft, review, and negotiate sophisticated commercial agreements, including on premise license agreements, SaaS agreements, services agreements and SOWs, channel partner agreements, vendor agreements, and other strategic contracts in a security driven environment. • Serve as a trusted advisor to NAM sales executives and internal stakeholders on security representations, contractual risk, audit rights, data protection terms, and liability frameworks. • Translate cybersecurity risk into clear, business actionable legal guidance—particularly in enterprise and regulated customer negotiations. • Partner cross functionally with Sales, Revenue Operations, Finance, Procurement, Security, Product, and Customer Success to ensure contractual commitments align with Black Duck’s security practices and risk posture. • Support procurement matters as needed, bringing consistency to vendor risk and contractual protections.
Benefits
• At Black Duck, legal plays an integral role in how the company engages customers, manages risk, and sustains credibility in the cybersecurity ecosystem. This is not a role where security is abstract—it is central to every conversation. • What makes this role compelling for cybersecurity native counsel: • Security first environment: You’ll work on contracts where security representations, audits, and risk allocation truly matter. • Security first environment: • Embedded partnership: Legal works closely with Security, Product, and Sales—not after the fact, but as part of the decision making process. • Embedded partnership: • Real influence: Your judgment will directly shape how the business navigates enterprise and regulated customer expectations. • Real influence: • Autonomy and trust: Senior counsel are empowered to make decisions, not just flag issues. • Autonomy and trust: • Sophisticated work: Licensing transactions that demand nuance, context, and an understanding of how cybersecurity operates in practice—not just on paper. • Sophisticated work: • If you’re a cybersecurity savvy inhouse counsel who enjoys being close to the business, advising meaningful risk decisions, and helping teams move fast and safely, this is a role where your expertise will be valued and visible. • Ideal location is US East Coast, but we are open to all other US-based locations for Remote or Hybrid work. • $183,000—$247,700 USD
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