Senior Legal Counsel, Public Sector

Core Responsibilities & Requirements

• End-to-End Deal Execution: Draft, structure, and negotiate high-value public sector and commercial transactions, including SaaS, cloud licensing, professional services, and subcontracting agreements
• Public Sector Compliance: Provide expert guidance on U.S. and international government procurement laws, including FAR/DFARS frameworks, GSA schedules, and FedRamp requirements, and support ongoing development and refinement of public sector compliance program
• Strategic Sales Advisory: Advise cross-functional teams throughout the public sector sales lifecycle, from initial RFP evaluations and proposal risk assessments to handling audits or disputes
• Operational Scalability: Build, refine, and maintain legal playbooks, contract templates, and training modules to streamline negotiations and empower sales teams
• Regulatory Monitoring: Stay ahead of evolving technology laws, government contracting regulations, and government and defense related export controls to provide proactive, actionable risk mitigation strategies
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work cross-functionally to launch new programs to support growth of commercial and public sector businesses

Requirements

• 8+ years of US public sector transactions experience, preferably at a law firm and high-growth technology company
• Strong working knowledge of government procurement frameworks and contracting vehicles, FAR, DFARS, and related regulatory requirements
• Active Security Clearance (or eligibility to obtain)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Able to understand complex contractual issues, assess risk while exercising strong business judgment, and provide clear legal advice
• Curious and passionate about technology
• Enjoy working hard and overcoming challenges
• Phenomenal leadership and teamwork skills, and willingness to take on new responsibility

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Qualifications

Phenomenal leadership and teamwork skills, and willingness to take on new responsibility