Corporate Counsel, AlphaSense
Commercial Contracts
$120-132k
East Coast, US
Market intelligence and search platform
Open for applications
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$120-132k
East Coast, US
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organize the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- J.D. from a top law school and admitted to practice law in at least one jurisdiction
- 2+ years’ experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial software and technology subscription agreements in-house or with a nationally recognized law firm
- Ability to manage a high volume of commercial contracts including Master Services Agreements, Services Agreements, SOWs, Service Level Agreements, Orders Forms, NDAs; etc.
- Superior business acumen with an unrivaled commitment and deep-seated need to provide responsive client service to our teams and get things done; approaches responsibilities with a business friendly and pragmatic mindset while maintaining a commensurate balance of legal risk
- Energetic, authentic, and friendly with a great sense of humor; capable of displaying strong negotiation skills and the ability to support difficult positions in a firm and patient manner
- Effective communicator with the ability to interact with both internal and external professionals of all types and backgrounds
- Proficient with contracts management software; and
- Experience with information security, data privacy, intellectual property, and/or financial services a plus
What the job involves
- The Corporate Counsel of Commercial Contracts is primarily responsible for independently drafting, reviewing and negotiating a variety of commercial contracts, with a heavy emphasis on revenue-generating contracts with our customers
- The Corporate Counsel will partner with all levels and functions of the business, including Sales, Marketing, Information Security, Product, and Content, among others, to help AlphaSense achieve its high-growth goals
- You will take ownership of drafting, reviewing, and reviewing the company’s commercial contracts and provide general transactional support cross the organization with a heavy emphasis on sales
- Help create and enhance playbooks to establish company parameters to scale the legal function as the company grows
- Establish the proper processes and procedures to ensure commercial contracts are always provided prompt attention
- Provide legal and strategic business advice to ensure agreements are consistent with playbooks, internal policies, and processes
- Remain informed of the shifting legal landscape relating to applicable laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact commercial agreements
Our take
Manual research can be a serious pain : financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it is now setting its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
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Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Customer obsession - We measure ourselves against a simple yardstick: do our clients rave about us?
- Passion for product - Building a powerful yet simple and beautiful product is in our DNA
- Results - We value execution and outcomes over appearance and office politics. It’s that simple
- Diversity of perspective - Great ideas come from everywhere and anywhere
- Think big - We believe AlphaSense can change the game, and possibly the world
- Ownership - As owners of AlphaSense, it’s everyone’s job to ensure we do great work - and to always look for opportunities to do better
- Acceleration - We’re a fast-growing and fast-moving company. Do it, iterate, and try again
- Trust - We trust our colleagues to do what’s right and what’s best for the company
- Teamwork - Helping our colleagues succeed always comes first. We are serious about our work - and have fun too
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
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Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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