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Base pay range

$200,000.00/yr - $280,000.00/yr

About Hex

Hex is changing the way people work with data. Our platform makes analytics workflows more powerful, collaborative, and shareable. Hex solves key pain points with today's data and analytics tooling, and is loved by thousands of users all over the world for the beautiful UI, new superpowers, and boundless flexibility.

We are a tight-knit crew of engineers, designers, and data aficionados. Our roadmap is full of big ideas and little details, and we would love your help bringing them to life. Hex has raised over $100m from great VCs and angels, giving us many years of runway and the ability to pay competitive salaries, offer great benefits, and provide meaningful equity.

Watch a demo of Hex on our homepage, read more on our blog, or check out our handbook for a better sense of what it's like to work here.

About the Role

Hex is looking for a great first in-house lawyer to help us scale our business, while making sure risk and complexity dont scale with it. We are open to different levels and experience, assuming candidates have a strong grounding in high-growth tech, exposure to commercial law, and innate curiosity.

We sit at the nexus of data, AI, and collaboration meaning we have to think about where data lives, who has access to it, which models can see or train on it, and how to help our customers be comfortable with all of that. It's an interesting time, in a fast-moving space, and youd be on point to help us sort through all of it.

In this role, youd focus on all aspects of our business and technology, including contracts with our customers, partnerships with technology platforms, and how were approaching data security (our most important job!) This is a builder role, with an opportunity to get your hands dirty ahead of scaling a function.

The first and primary focus will be on our commercial foundations. We're doing a lot of customer deals (yay!) but theyre increasingly complex, especially in the fast-moving world of AI and data. This is costing time and causing friction and youd be on point to set our strategy on navigating this. You'd have an opportunity to build a foundation, helping standardize, streamline, and simplify the way we structure our agreements.

Beyond commercial work, as our first in-house lawyer you'll have opportunities to engage in other areas of the company including employment, IP, and corporate matters. There's a lot to dig into, from international expansion to trademarks to fundraising, and depending on your experience and seniority, wed love to talk about an overall legal counsel role.

To be successful, you'll need to be a bit of a nerd, and be knowledgeable and excited about the tech industry, and following along with the latest on cloud, AI, and regulation. You should love learning and explaining new concepts, and be excited to engage as a true business partner, and not see legal as simply risk mitigation or the no people.

What you will do

• Focus on all aspects of our business and technology, including contracts with our customers and partnerships with technology platforms.
• Approach data security as a primary responsibility.
• Set strategy on navigating complex customer deals.
• Standardize, streamline, and simplify the way we structure our agreements.
• Engage in other areas of the company, including employment, IP, and corporate matters.

About you

• JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one US state bar.
• 7+ years of legal experience, either In-house experience at a high-growth startup, public tech company and/or top tier law firm with extensive exposure to customer/vendor contract negotiations.
• Deep working experience negotiating SaaS contracts (on both vendor and customer paper), including subscription and consumption pricing models, order forms, SLAs, DPAs, and vendor assessments as well as professional services agreements, statements-of-work, confidentiality agreements, and third-party partner agreements.
• Willingness to engage cross-functionally with Hex's products, business practices, operating processes and policies and departments to support all areas of the business.
• Solid understanding of cloud security and global privacy frameworks.
• Willingness to write a cover letter explaining why youre a great fit and what in our Hex Handbook resonates with you or not.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with international commercial agreements and cross-border data transfer.
• CIPP or equivalent certification.
• Deep familiarity with open-source licensing and emerging legal trends in AI.
• Experience with bird law.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Legal
• Industries: Software Development

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