Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Corporate Counsel role is notable in SaaS because it sits where product-led contracting, vendor ecosystems, and global operations meet. Qualtrics operates a large, multi-entity footprint and sells software at scale, which typically brings a steady mix of supplier negotiations, corporate governance, and expansion work that is specific to subscription businesses and their partner networks.
For a SaaS legal career, the value is the breadth of recurring, high-volume commercial work paired with corporate infrastructure responsibilities. Managing inbound SaaS licenses and technology partnership agreements builds pattern recognition around common SaaS risk areas like data handling, implementation obligations, and third-party dependencies, while entity and real estate matters develop an operator’s understanding of how software companies structure and support growth across regions.
This position fits a lawyer who prefers being embedded with Finance, Tax, Procurement, and Real Estate as a practical business partner rather than operating purely as a reviewer. It also suits someone who enjoys ownership across multiple workstreams, is comfortable making judgment calls in ambiguous situations, and wants a role that blends transactional execution with process improvement and informal mentorship.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
Why We Have This Role
Qualtrics is hiring a Corporate Counsel focused on managing all legal aspects of our global corporate entities and real estate matters, negotiating a wide-range of supplier agreements, and being a strategic partner to our Finance, Tax, Procurement, and Real Estate teams as we continue to scale. This role exists to ensure we maintain our global corporate footprint, enable expansion, and operate as a key partner to the business. We need a trusted legal partner who can manage complexity, move quickly in ambiguous situations, provide practical solutions, and help the company balance legal risk with business velocity. Ultimately, this role ensures we protect the business without slowing it down and enable Qualtrics to deliver exceptional experiences.
How You’ll Find Success
Success in this role is about more than just legal acumen; it's about becoming a trusted, pragmatic business partner who drives results across a wide range of critical legal functions. We are looking for a skilled lawyer who thrives on complexity and ownership. You will succeed by demonstrating excellence in the following areas:
- Ownership: You don't just identify issues; you build the solutions. You will take full responsibility for maintaining our global entities and supporting our real estate team’s initiatives, and will be a critical partner to the business on a wide-range of supplier agreements.
- High-Stakes Navigation: You thrive in ambiguity. You provide clear, actionable paths forward that balance legal risk with business velocity.
- Becoming a Go-To Expert: You will quickly become a highly proficient and go-to resource for the company.
- Pragmatic and Trusted Partnership: You will build deep trust across the organization by being a responsive, helpful, and solutions-oriented partner. With a high EQ, you will translate complex legal requirements into actionable business guidance. Success means you are consistently sought out by internal clients who value your pragmatic advice and enjoy working with you.
- Strategic Business Acumen: You will move beyond purely legal advice by developing a sophisticated understanding of our company's products, organization, and risk tolerance. Your counsel will be not just legally sound but commercially astute, helping the business navigate challenges and achieve its goals in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.
- Mentorship and Team Collaboration: As a key member of the team, you will contribute to a positive and inclusive environment. You will become a helpful mentor to more junior members of the Legal team and a respected advisor to colleagues across the business.
How You’ll Grow
You’ll know you’re doing a phenomenal job when:
- You are the company’s go-to expert, autonomously managing complex transactional and entity-related matters.
- You translate complex legal matters into clear, actionable advice that empowers confident business decisions.
- You are a trusted, pragmatic partner, proactively sought out by teams across the business to help them navigate challenges.
Things You’ll Do
As a key member of our legal team, you will be responsible for managing a diverse portfolio of complex legal matters. Your core responsibilities will include:
- Primary responsibility for international expansion efforts, including maintenance of global corporate entities and related corporate governance matters, working closely with finance and tax teams.
- Primary responsibility for real estate matters, working closely with the real estate team.
- Draft and negotiate a range of supplier agreements, including inbound SaaS licenses, and technology and implementation partnership agreements, working closely with procurement and business owners from all departments.
- Own other general corporate matters, intercompany agreements, and strategic reorgs.
- Acting as a partner and informal mentor to team paralegals.
- Identify and implement methods for improving and streamlining existing processes.
What We’re Looking For On Your Resume
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree.
- Licensed to practice in at least one U.S. state.
- 4-9 years of experience in a similar or relevant role at a top law firm or company.
- Significant transactional legal experience and/or corporate governance experience (prior public company / securities experience a plus).
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and attention to detail.
- Solution-oriented mindset able to work with cross-functional teams to ensure they are able to accomplish their objectives while still meeting standards.
- Ownership, ownership, ownership.
What You Should Know About This Team
- The Legal team at Qualtrics is a hard-working, fun-loving, and dynamic group. We focus on solving problems and empowering our business teams to run, not walk.
- We are always pragmatic—protecting the company from risks that really matter and never slowing it down over issues that are only theoretical.
- We get the opportunity to work with every department in the company as well as outside counsel, vendors, partners, and (most importantly) customers.
- We strive to avoid pretentiousness and instead focus on working hard, having fun, and delivering results.
Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Team cohesion is deeply important to us - we have frequent office events and regular team activities
- Qualtrics Experience Program - $1,800 for an experience of your choosing (eligible after a year)
- We take pride in our office design aimed at fostering creativity, in an open and collaborative workspace
- 30 paid days off - 15 Vacation Days + 5 Personal Days + 10 Holiday Closures (additional after a year)
- On top of standard benefits package (medical employees and their families, dental, vision, life insurance, etc), we provide free lunches every work day, snacks, and drinks
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life. #hybrid
Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.
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