Legal Counsel

About Port

The developer experience, developer productivity and driving software quality are on top of every engineering leader’s mind.

At Port, we help engineering organizations excel through the use of our open internal developer portal, owned by platform engineering teams and built for developers. Port consolidates everything developers need to know and execute to deliver software autonomously and to comply with organizational standards. Managers use Port to understand engineering metrics and improve them.

We’re growing rapidly, fueled by the industry’s leading product, and by the constant innovation of our customers, big and small, that use our product to change how developers work.

Why we’re looking for you:

As our company continues to expand we are looking for the first in-house legal.

You have to be a superhero commercial legal and the go-to person for any other legal matters in the company.

As Legal Counsel you will:

• Lead and oversee all commercial legal matters at Port Worldwide
• Manage and monitor the entire lifecycle of our contracts, from creation through signing to archiving.
• Draft and maintain the company's commercial legal templates, including MSAs, EULAs, and other essential documents.
• Develop strategies for commercial negotiations to minimize risk, reduce friction with customers, and shorten the time to finalize agreements.
• Structure, draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial and corporate agreements across various legal fields, including procurement, HR and consulting.
• Collaborate with different departments across the company on diverse legal issues.
• Handle ongoing legal matters globally.
• Provide general corporate legal advice as needed.
  
  

• 6+ years of experience as a commercial lawyer, particularly in the B2B tech product space.
• Strong corporate legal background.
• Experience working within or with the high-tech industry.
• Proven track record of working with multinational, global companies.
• Ability to thrive under pressure and work effectively, also within U.S. time zones.
• Fluent in English at a native or near-native level.