Corporate Counsel

About the role

Spectro Cloud is seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel to support commercial transactions, corporate matters, privacy, employment, IP, and other legal needs as the company scales. This is a high-impact role where you will partner with various departments and be expected to own matters end-to-end.

Job Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad mix of commercial agreements, including customer subscription agreements, partner and reseller agreements, vendor and procurement contracts, NDAs, and DPAs.
• Support corporate matters including entity management, board and stockholder governance, equity administration, and financings, working closely with the Head of Legal and outside counsel.
• Advise on privacy and data protection matters under US state privacy laws, GDPR, and UK GDPR, including DPA negotiation, vendor risk review, and customer privacy inquiries.
• Support employment matters in coordination with the People team, including offer letters, separations, contractor engagements, equity and compensation questions, and international hiring.
• Help build and maintain the company’s contract playbooks, templates, and self-serve tools so that the business can move quickly without sacrificing risk discipline.
• Support IP matters, including trademark portfolio management, open-source license review, and IP clauses in commercial and employment agreements.
• Manage outside counsel on discrete matters — scoping, budgeting, and quality-checking work product.
• Respond to legal inquiries, subpoenas, regulatory requests, and disputes as they arise.
• Take initiative on the things that don’t have an obvious owner — process improvements, training the business, building new playbooks — and help the legal function scale with the company.
• Research areas of the law that may not be your area of strength.

Minimum Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited US law school and active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar.
• 4–8 years of post-JD legal experience, with a meaningful mix of top-tier law firm and in-house experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience drafting and negotiating SaaS / technology commercial agreements, including MSAs, DPAs, and order forms.
• Working knowledge of US privacy laws (CCPA/CPRA and other state regimes) and EU/UK GDPR as applied to a B2B SaaS business.
• Strong commercial instincts — able to translate legal risk into practical business advice and move a deal forward.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain legal concepts to non-lawyers in plain English.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity, competing priorities, and shifting deadlines — and the judgment to prioritize when not everything can get done.
• Self-starter who is willing to take initiative beyond the strict bounds of the role to help the company move forward.
• Strong organizational skills and a track record of managing a high-volume workload without dropping balls.
• The ability to operate effectively with remote teams and manage your time efficiently.
• High integrity, sound judgment, and a sense of humor.

Preferred Qualifications

• In-house experience at a venture-backed B2B SaaS or infrastructure software company.
• Experience supporting an open-source software business, including OSS license review.
• Familiarity with cloud, Kubernetes, AI/ML, or container ecosystems — enough to talk to engineering and product without a translator.
• Experience supporting US federal and public-sector sales motions (e.g., FedRAMP, GSA, DFARS / FAR flow-downs).
• Experience with international commercial transactions and cross-border data transfer frameworks (SCCs, UK IDTA).
• Experience using contract lifecycle management (CLM) tooling and building self-serve legal workflows.
• Experience supporting corporate development activity (M&A, strategic investments, partnerships).