Senior Legal Business Partner / Commercial Counsel – North America
Ready to be part of the Legal Tech revolution?
DiliTrust is a global SaaS company dedicated to transforming legal and governance departments through innovative technology. Our integrated suite supports legal teams in managing contracts, entities, board activities, and other critical legal operations more efficiently.
DiliTrust combines a strong international presence with an entrepreneurial culture, helping customers across multiple markets digitize and simplify their legal processes.
Your role
As Senior Legal Business Partner, you will act as a trusted legal advisor to DiliTrust’s commercial organization in the United States and Canada. Based in Philadelphia, you will support business growth by leading and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements, while helping internal stakeholders identify practical and proportionate solutions to legal and business risks.
You will partner closely with Sales, Account Management, Customer Success, Professional Services, Security, Finance, and other business functions. Your role will be both strategic and hands-on: you will manage negotiations directly, improve contracting processes, and help the business close opportunities efficiently while protecting DiliTrust’s interests.
Responsibilities
- Lead the drafting, review, negotiation, and execution of commercial agreements for DiliTrust’s US and Canadian markets.
- Advise Sales, Account Management, Customer Success, Professional Services, Finance, and other stakeholders throughout the contract lifecycle.
- Negotiate key contractual provisions, including liability, indemnification, data protection, intellectual property, confidentiality, warranties, service levels, and termination rights.
- Develop and maintain contract templates, negotiation playbooks, fallback positions, and approval guidelines to streamline deal execution.
- Provide practical legal training and guidance to commercial teams while identifying opportunities to improve contracting processes and risk management.
Your Profile
- US-qualified attorney with several years of experience in commercial, technology, SaaS, or in-house legal roles.
- Demonstrated ability to independently manage and negotiate complex B2B and enterprise customer agreements.
- Experience supporting sales teams and advising business stakeholders in a fast-paced, international environment.
- Strong understanding of SaaS contracts, technology transactions, data protection, intellectual property, and commercial risk.
- Pragmatic, commercially minded, highly organized, and comfortable working autonomously while collaborating across functions and geographies.
Required Skills – Hard Skills
- Strong experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating B2B commercial agreements, particularly SaaS and technology contracts.
- Solid knowledge of key contractual provisions, including liability, indemnification, warranties, intellectual property, confidentiality, data protection, service levels, and termination.
- Practical understanding of US commercial law and familiarity with Canadian commercial contracting practices.
- Experience supporting enterprise sales transactions, procurement processes, and complex customer negotiations.
- Ability to develop and use contract templates, negotiation playbooks, clause libraries, and contract lifecycle management tools.
What we offer
- The opportunity to join a fast-growing Legal Tech company with an international and entrepreneurial environment.
- The opportunity to work on strategic commercial transactions with customers and partners across North America.
- Exposure to a broad range of legal, business, technology, and operational topics.
- A collaborative environment where Legal works closely with the business to support growth and customer success.
- A flexible working approach, balancing remote work and collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders.
Recruitment process
- Interview with a member of the Talent Acquisition team.
- Interview with the hiring manager / Legal leadership.
- Interview with key business stakeholders.
- Final interview and reference check.
More info
Job title: Senior Legal Business Partner / Commercial Counsel – North America
Department: Legal
Location: Philadelphia, United States
Market scope: United States and Canada
Seniority: Senior
Type of contract: Full-time, hybrid
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