[Remote] Director, Legal Counsel - Contracts

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Indeed is a leading job site dedicated to helping people find employment. They are seeking a Director, Legal Counsel - Contracts to oversee the commercial contracting function, ensuring alignment with the company's revenue initiatives and managing a high-performing team responsible for complex commercial negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic direction, governance, and continuous evolution of Indeed’s global commercial contracting function, aligning legal support with broader business and revenue objectives, including meeting directly with strategic leaders within Client organizations to understand their needs
• Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of legal professionals responsible for negotiating and advising on a broad range of complex commercial agreements
• Partner directly and meet frequently with the tiger teams responsible for driving adoption of AI-driven products within top-tier US major corporations, serving as the primary legal architect for enterprise client engagements
• Serve as the senior escalation point for highly complex, novel, strategic, or high-risk commercial negotiations and provide pragmatic guidance on legal, regulatory, and business risks
• Develop and implement sophisticated contracting frameworks, negotiation strategies, and playbooks
• Drive operational excellence and transformation across the end-to-end contract lifecycle, including process optimization, workflow design, and automation opportunities, in partnership with Legal Operations and technology teams
• Establish and oversee key metrics, reporting, and performance indicators to measure team effectiveness, contract cycle times, risk trends, and operational improvements while ensuring contracting practices remain compliant and commercially competitive

Skills

• Requires a JD, and a minimum of 10 years of related experience, including 7 in commercial contracts working with top-tier corporations
• Extensive experience overseeing and scaling commercial contracting functions within complex, fast-paced, and high-growth organizations, preferably in technology or SaaS environments
• Deep expertise in US commercial law, revenue transactions, risk assessment, and negotiation strategy, with the ability to navigate highly complex and high-impact agreements
• Demonstrated ability to balance legal, regulatory, financial, and operational considerations while enabling business growth and driving client adoption of Indeed's offerings
• Proven people leadership and organizational management experience, including developing high-performing teams, mentoring senior legal professionals, and driving accountability across functions
• Exceptional executive communication, business partner management, and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted partnerships across senior leadership and cross-functional teams
• Business-focused operational and strategic mindset with experience driving process improvement, contracting scalability, technology adoption, and data-driven decision making within legal organizations

Benefits

• Quarterly bonuses
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• A Paid Time Off policy
• Many region-specific benefits
• Indeed provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process

Company Overview