[Hiring] Associate General Counsel - Product/Commercial @Mapbox

Role Description

We’re looking for a lawyer with 7+ years of practicing attorney experience to join our small and collaborative legal team. The right candidate will:

• Have worked at a technology company.
• Be technically savvy and hard-working.
• Be keen to learn our products and business.
• Be willing to dig into a wide variety of projects in a fast-paced environment.

On the commercial side, this encompasses:

• Complex data in-licenses.
• Customer sales and automotive OEM deals.

This is a senior individual contributor role where you will:

• Come up with practical and creative solutions to get complex deals done and advance our business.
• Develop the ability to both mitigate and accept risk.

Mapbox’s customers use our SDKs and APIs to build their own location-aware applications. Our products are building blocks that our customers can use in various different ways, making our sales agreements technically more complex than in an enterprise software or SaaS software company. You must be able to:

• Become conversant with and draft agreements based on our specific customers’ use case and technical implementations.
• Handle complex data in-licenses and sales/OEM deals thoughtfully.

We think it’s important to continually improve operational processes and update forms to scale a small legal organization. You need to:

• Share and participate in efforts to scale our department and improve our services.
• Be willing to roll up your sleeves and dive into a variety of legal issues.
• Enjoy collaboration and take feedback.

The breadth, variety, and complexity of projects that you will handle at Mapbox is great training for cross-functional generalists who want to better understand and practically address business problems and risk.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of practicing attorney experience, with 2+ years at a top-tier law firm in any area and 5+ years in-house at a technology company in sales-side commercial transactions.
• At least one of the following is required:
  • Computer engineering, computer science or other similar technical degree.
  • At least 2, but not more than 4, years experience in software patent litigation or patent prosecution at a top-tier firm.
  • Extensive experience working with APIs and SDKs.
  • Experience working on complex sales deals.
• Excellent communication skills, both writing and verbal.
• A practical and customer-centric orientation and negotiation style.
• A sense of humor.
• JD degree from a top-tier law school and active membership in at least one US state bar.

Requirements

• Resume must clearly demonstrate qualifications; if not, include a cover note explaining interest and fit.
• Remote candidates considered, preferably in the Pacific time zone.

Benefits

• Supportive health care.
• Parental leave.
• Flexibility for personal matters.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Company Description

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox for its flexibility, security, and privacy compliance.