Counsel, Commercial

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running.

Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.

About The Role

We are seeking a commercially minded Legal Counsel to join our growing legal team and support the company’s global sales organisation. This is a collaborative role working closely with Sales and other business stakeholders to provide clear, pragmatic legal advice, support customer negotiations and help ensure that legal, regulatory, privacy and commercial risks are appropriately identified, communicated and managed. The successful candidate will act as a trusted legal partner to the business, helping stakeholders navigate customer and channel transactions with sound judgement and a practical, solutions-oriented approach.

They will be confident in assessing risk, escalating issues where appropriate and working with more senior members of the legal team on complex or strategic matters. This role is ideal for an adaptable lawyer who enjoys commercial contracting, thrives in a fast-paced software environment and wants to develop broader in-house experience while helping the business achieve its objectives in a legally robust and practical way.

What You’Ll Do

Build effective working relationships with Sales, Deal Desk, Revenue Operations and other business stakeholders to support customer and channel transactions. Review, draft and negotiate a range of commercial agreements, including SaaS, BaaS, software, professional services, channel agreements and NDAs, escalating complex or high-risk issues where appropriate.

Requirements

Support the development of practical solutions to contractual and commercial issues, balancing business objectives with appropriate risk mitigation and escalation where required. Identify potential contractual, legal or operational issues during negotiations and work proactively with internal stakeholders to resolve them efficiently and reduce the risk of disputes or delays. Assist with the development and continuous improvement of contract templates, negotiation playbooks and legal processes.

Support the creation and delivery of training and awareness materials to help business stakeholders understand legal risks, contracting principles and company approval processes. Collaborate effectively with colleagues across the Legal department and contribute to a positive, supportive and high-performing team culture.

and related contractual obligations, working closely with specialist privacy colleagues and more senior legal team members to ensure risks are properly understood and managed. What You’ll Bring Qualified lawyer with approximately 3–8+ years post-qualification experience, gained in a leading law firm and/or in-house legal department. Commercial contracts experience, ideally within a software, SaaS, cloud technology or broader technology company.

Strong drafting, contract review and negotiation skills, with experience supporting customer and/or partner transactions. Ability to provide practical, succinct and commercially aware legal advice to business stakeholders.