Associate General Counsel - Product/Commercial

We’re looking for a lawyer with 7 + years of practicing attorney experience to join our small and collaborative legal team. The right candidate will have worked at a technology company, be technically savvy and hard-working, keen to learn our products and business, and willing to dig into a wide variety of projects in a fast-paced environment. On the commercial side, this encompasses complex data in-licenses, as well as customer sales and automotive OEM deals. Most of our commercial deals involve substantial work with our product and engineering colleagues, so there is a product-counseling aspect to this position as well.

This is a senior individual contributor role where you will come up with practical and creative solutions to get complex deals done and advance our business. Drafting and communication skills are extremely important. We believe that it is the role of in-house counsel to own the deal. You will develop the ability to both mitigate and accept risk. We almost never say to our colleagues “that’s a business issue for you to decide.”

Mapbox’s customers use our SDKs and APIs to build their own location-aware applications. Our products are building blocks that our customers can use in various different ways, so our sales agreements are technically more complex than in an enterprise software or SaaS software company. We don’t believe that lawyers can give good legal advice in a vacuum, so you must be able to become very conversant with and draft agreements based on our specific customers’ use case and technical implementations. We are not processing hundreds of small sales deals with tweaks to the governing law clause. Instead, our data in-licenses and sales/OEM deals are complex and require a thoughtful approach by a senior lawyer. While we work closely together and thus teach and learn from each other every day, you will not have direct reports.

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