Ready to become a Wriker?
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Counsel to join our legal team. This role requires comprehensive experience negotiating technology transactions with a strong background in privacy and data protection. You are a proficient negotiator but enjoy delving into other aspects of the business. You will work cross functionally with various business units, including sales, security, product, and engineering teams.
How You’ll make an Impact
- Lead and manage complex commercial transactions, including B2B SaaS and other commercial agreements (Master Services, Data Processing, Professional Services, Reseller, NDA) with Wrike’s customers and vendors, direct and channel partnerships and strategic transactions.
- Provide legal support for Wrike business partners (Sales, Marketing, Security, HR, Engineering, and Product teams) to further their business objectives. Possess a keen understanding of global commercial negotiation practices and provide sound business judgment and risk analysis.
- Experience advising on data privacy, data protection and the legal and regulatory aspects of product development in the technology space (experience at a B2B SaaS company preferred).
- Assist in improving Wrike’s privacy compliance program to ensure compliance with US, European, and other international privacy laws.
- Oversee process for receiving and responding to data subjects’ requests to exercise their rights under privacy laws.
- Enhance templates, playbooks, forms, policies, and processes to simplify and expedite deals and product/service terms.
- Provide strategic, creative and practical legal advice and continuously build a trusted relationship with business partners.
- Drive constant cross functional improvement, scalability, and operational excellence in contract negotiations, contract management and continued implementation of a privacy program.
You will achieve your best if you have
- 6+ years of relevant legal experience with prior in-house experience at a SaaS company preferred.
- Strong knowledge of US (CCPA, CPRA, HIPAA), European (GDPR), and international privacy and data protection laws that pertain to Wrike’s business.
- Expertise in commercial technology transactions, including B2B SaaS, direct, channel partnerships, and strategic transactions.
- Strong understanding of the enterprise SaaS space, experience working with international sales teams, and global commercial negotiation practices.
- Ability to understand product development at a technology company in conjunction with data protection regulations, including assisting in the creation of Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and similar risk assessments to identify potential privacy and security risks associated with commercial activities
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong drafting skills with high attention to detail.
- Proactive in driving enhancements of templates, forms, policies, and processes.
- Committed to continuous improvement, scalability, and operational excellence.
You will stand out with
- CIPP/E, CIPP/US, or other relevant privacy certifications
- Prior experience with a fast growing, private technology company
Perks of working with Wrike
- 25 days of paid vacation
- Pension scheme
- Life Insurance plan
- Health Insurance
- Income Protection
- Parental leave (26 weeks paid for birth mothers, 4 weeks for non-birth parents)
- Bike to Work scheme
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Who Is Wrike and Our Culture
Our persona
Our culture and Values
🤩 Customer-Focused
We care about our customers. We understand the customer journey, experience, and value derived from Wrike. Decision-making and action-taking are done with the customer in mind.
🤝 Collaborative
We work as one and win together, each bringing unique strengths that contribute to diversity of thought for better outcomes. Leveraging our own work management platform, we foster an environment of creative collaboration and shared achievement.
🎨 Creative
We strive to succeed through continuous innovation. It’s our pursuit of novel concepts that helped us create a market category. We continue to cultivate a workplace that fosters creative thinking as a means of transcending conventional boundaries and empowers us to break new ground to deliver extraordinary work management solutions.
💪 Committed
We believe in ownership at all levels of the organization, by owning workflows from start to finish. Each member of our team is an integral part of this commitment, establishing work as a platform for personal growth and transformation, as well as collective success and growth.
