Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Commercial legal roles in SaaS sit directly on the boundary between product delivery and revenue, and this Associate Commercial Counsel position reflects that reality. The remit spans customer, partner, and vendor agreements typical of subscription businesses, with regular touchpoints across Sales, Finance, Privacy, Security, and Customer Success. The emphasis on improving contracting workflows also signals a legal function that is being operationalised, not treated as a purely reactive review desk.
For a SaaS-focused legal career, the standout value is exposure to repeatable deal patterns and the governance that supports them, including privacy clauses and security-driven customer requests. The role’s involvement in playbooks and AI-assisted review adds experience in legal ops style work: turning judgment into scalable systems, shortening cycle times, and enabling self-serve for standard deals. Those capabilities translate across SaaS companies where contract velocity and consistency affect bookings and retention.
This role suits a commercial lawyer who prefers partnering closely with business teams and translating risk into practical options. It will fit someone comfortable handling varied requests, escalating higher-risk issues appropriately, and contributing to process design alongside day-to-day negotiations. It also aligns with candidates interested in applying new tooling thoughtfully within an in-house SaaS legal workflow.
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
Your role
As an Associate Commercial Counsel, you’ll support the end-to-end contract process for a variety of commercial agreements, helping balance business priorities with compliance and risk in a fast-paced, sales-driven environment. You’ll work closely with more senior counsel and cross-functional teams across Sales, Finance, Privacy, Security, and Customer Success to review and negotiate agreements, respond to various requests, and help scale our commercial legal workflows. You’ll also help create scalable, AI-assisted contracting workflows that shorten review cycles and make it easier for business teams to self-serve on standard deals. In addition, you’ll help bring a practical “AI-first” mindset to Commercial Legal by piloting new tools, documenting playbooks, and turning individual legal judgment into repeatable systems that improve speed, consistency, and risk management.
This position reports to our Deputy General Counsel. We are looking for candidates based in Buenos Aires.
What you’ll do
- Work closely with other in-house legal team members to manage the contract review process for a variety of customer, partner, and vendor contracts, including SaaS agreements, services agreements, statements of work, vendor agreements, and NDAs, from intake through negotiation and completion.
- Draft, revise, and negotiate contracts, and provide clear, business-oriented recommendations to internal stakeholders that balance risk and the company’s needs.
- Review contract modification requests and coordinate with internal business partners to negotiate terms and obtain necessary approvals for non-standard positions.
- Guide cross-functional teams on commonly requested edits, non-standard terms, and general contractual questions.
- Partner with key stakeholders, including Finance, Privacy, and Security, to address contract issues, including privacy/GDPR/CCPA-related clauses.
- Support the business on legal review for RFPs and a variety of other customer-driven requests.
- Provide legal support to the Customer Success team on customer relationship management and escalations, helping resolve issues in a constructive, solution-oriented way.
- Assist with efforts to improve and coordinate continuing education, online resources, and training programs for business partners.
- Apply original, innovative thinking and continuous improvement to our processes, products, systems, and services to better serve internal customer needs, and be a champion for a better, faster, and simpler way of doing things.
- Leverage AI-powered legal tools (for example, for first-pass contract review, clause extraction, and legal research) to accelerate your work, while exercising sound legal judgment and escalating complex or high-risk issues to senior counsel as needed.
Skills you’ll bring
- At least 2-5 years of experience as a commercial attorney.
- Prior experience working in a sales-driven or fast-paced technology environment (SaaS preferred).
- Demonstrated experience working cross-functionally and preferably with sales, finance, and procurement teams.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to communicate issues straightforwardly and understandably.
- Comfort using and learning AI-powered tools to assist with contract review, legal research, and knowledge management, and a willingness to experiment, provide feedback, and help improve how our legal team works with AI.
- Fluent in spoken and written English.
