MongoDB · 1 day ago
Legal Counsel
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$118K/yr - $231K/yr
5+ years expMongoDB is a rapidly growing company that empowers customers and employees to innovate at market speed. The role involves handling contract negotiations and providing legal advice on commercial issues to support the sales organization and other teams.
Cloud ComputingDatabaseOpen SourceSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Draft and negotiate cloud and licensing agreements, professional services agreements, OEM agreements, data processing agreements, and other technology contracts
Provide strategic legal and business advice to a rapidly-growing and high-performing sales organization and other teams within the sales ecosystem
Identify and implement process improvements to streamline negotiations and scale legal resources
Develop training resources to enable our sales team to navigate the contracting process effectively
Tackle other interesting legal projects and assist team members on others as needed
Qualification
Required
5+ years of commercial transaction experience, preferably including technology licensing and cloud agreements
Proven record of success at a top law firm, in-house experience is a plus
Knowledge of intellectual property, data privacy and security, software licensing, cloud computing, and contract issues
Smart, passionate and driven with strong attention to detail and excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to understand complex contractual issues, assess risk while exercising strong business judgment, and provide clear legal advice
Curious and enthusiastic about technology
Enjoy working hard and overcoming challenges
Great leadership and teamwork skills, and willingness to take on new responsibility
Experience advancing projects in a multi-stakeholder environment and handling and prioritizing multiple projects
Licensed in an appropriate jurisdiction
Benefits
Equity
Participation in the employee stock purchase program
Flexible paid time off
20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
Fertility and adoption assistance
401(k) plan
Mental health counseling
Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
Health benefits offerings
Company
MongoDB
MongoDB is a next-generation database that helps businesses transform their industries by harnessing the power of data.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
MongoDB has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (159)
2024 (150)
2023 (133)
2022 (79)
2021 (51)
2020 (30)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$311MKey Investors
SalesforceEquityZenT. Rowe Price
2024-11-14Post Ipo Equity
2024-10-16Post Ipo Debt
2018-03-06Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Jim Scharf
Chief Technology Officer
Ronnen Miller
SVP, Global Technical Services
Recent News
2025-12-15
2025-12-10
Company data provided by crunchbase