Vice President (Legal Commercial)

Join GitLab as the Vice President of Legal Commercial, where you'll lead the global commercial legal function and be a key member of the Legal leadership team. You'll set the strategy for commercial legal operations, oversee a team of 15-20 legal professionals, and serve as the primary legal partner to the CRO, CFO, and GTM leadership. This role requires extensive experience in commercial legal leadership, AI governance, and enterprise SaaS contracting.

• Definir y ejecutar la estrategia a largo plazo para la función legal comercial global de GitLab, alineando las prioridades legales con el crecimiento de ingresos de la empresa.
• Construir, liderar y desarrollar un equipo de abogados comerciales, gerentes de contratos y profesionales de operaciones legales de clase mundial en múltiples regiones.
• Establecer estándares empresariales para la contratación comercial, incluyendo la clasificación de riesgos, los marcos de escalación, la gobernanza de plantillas y la estrategia de manuales.
• 15+ years of combined law firm and in-house experience, with substantial tenure in a senior commercial legal leadership role at a global SaaS or enterprise technology company
• J.D. or U.S. law degree equivalent with bar admission in good standing in at least one U.S. state
• Visionary but execution-oriented: someone who operates effectively at the strategy level without losing sight of the operational details that make a legal function run
• 5+ years leading and scaling teams of attorneys and contract managers, with a track record of developing legal talent and building high-functioning commercial legal organizations with managers as direct reports
• A genuine champion for AI-enabled legal work, with hands-on experience driving adoption of tools and workflows that make teams faster and smarter
• Demonstrated fluency in AI governance and product legal issues, including drafting or negotiating AI-specific contractual terms and advising on AI regulatory requirements; proven track record deploying AI-powered legal workflows at the team level, not just awareness of the tools
• Exceptional executive presence and communication skills, with a proven ability to influence at the C-suite level and represent legal as a business growth partner
• Deep expertise in enterprise SaaS contracting, strategic partnerships, data privacy, and complex partner, channel, and public sector agreements, including familiarity with FedRAMP, FAR/DFARS, or equivalent frameworks
• Hands-on experience owning or leading a CLM implementation or expansion, with working knowledge of Quote-to-Cash process integration across Sales, Finance, and Revenue Operations
• Demonstrated ability to lead geographically distributed teams in a fully remote, asynchronous environment