Snowflake
Senior Counsel 2, Strategic Product Partnerships
US-CA-Menlo Park, Remote. Posted 19 days ago
The role
You will structure, negotiate, and close high-impact AI, cloud, and SaaS partnership agreements. You will partner with Business Development, Product, and Engineering leaders to provide practical advice and manage the deal pipeline.
What you will do
- Structure, negotiate, and close high-impact AI, cloud, and SaaS partnership agreements.
- Work with complex deal terms such as revenue share, licensing, fee structures, IP, and data use.
- Partner directly with Business Development, Product, and Engineering leaders.
- Own the deal pipeline for the product partnerships portfolio.
- Build and improve templates, playbooks, and processes.
- Work with privacy, security, finance, tax, and compliance teams to manage risk.
- Track the fast-changing AI and cloud regulatory landscape.
- Mentor colleagues and help set standards for the team.
Required qualifications
- JD and active California bar membership, or eligibility to register as California Registered In-House Counsel.
- 7+ years of practice as an attorney in technology transactions, at a law firm, in-house, or both.
- Hands-on experience negotiating complex technology, SaaS, cloud, or data partnership agreements.
- Strong working knowledge of IP, data privacy, security, and subprocessor issues in SaaS deals.
- Sound business judgment, with the ability to weigh risk and land practical, market-aligned positions.
- Clear, confident communication with senior stakeholders.
- Comfort running several deals at once under tight timelines.
- Curiosity about AI tools and how they can improve legal work.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI partnership structures, such as API access, model deployment, or data use agreements with model providers, hyperscalers, or neoclouds.
- In-house experience at a high-growth SaaS or technology company.
- Experience building scalable contracting infrastructure, such as playbooks, templates, or deal desk processes.
- Big Law training in technology transactions.
About the company
Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company empowers enterprises and people to achieve their full potential through a culture of impact, innovation, and collaboration.