Legal Counsel - Contracts - Palantir

Job Title: Legal Counsel - Contracts
Job Location: Palo Alto, CA
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/26d2329e-cf38-4955-858e-9f84e11f9792
Job Description: A World-Changing Company

Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

The Role

Palantir’s dynamic in-house legal team works to proactively address legal issues so that Palantir can continue to drive and deliver positive impact in the world. As Legal Counsel, you will provide critical support across the company by owning the drafting and negotiating process of a variety of in-bound third-party contracts, including vendor agreements, partnership agreements, and non-disclosure agreements. In this role, you will have the unique and exciting opportunity to develop, implement, and run Palantir’s contracting negotiation workflow that will exist across multiple internal teams and stakeholders. You’ll maintain focus on thoughtfully reducing risk across our in-bound contract requests while also holding the larger vision needed to bring a large and multi-stepped procurement workflow to completion.

Our ideal candidate proactively and effectively issue spots to streamline the contracting and negotiating process while maintaining meticulously organization to handle a large volume of agreements in a fast-paced environment. We seek a service-oriented individual who enjoys working collaboratively across an organization to solve problems and will strive to utilize technology and workflows in order to increase efficiency.
Core Responsibilities
Draft, review, negotiate, and close various agreements across Palantir - with a focus on vendor agreements, partnership agreements, confidentiality agreements, and infrastructure agreements.
Develop, implement, and own a contract management workflow that will exist across multiple internal teams and stakeholders.
Manage and maintain Palantir’s form contract repositories.
Collaborate with teams across Palantir and work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders, including Sales, Business Development, Finance, Security, Procurement and other relevant teams.
What We Value
Proven ability drafting, negotiating, and managing a variety of contractual agreements, including SaaS, subcontractor, goods, and services agreements.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills; aptitude for building strong cross-functional working relationships across a global organization.
Experience with data privacy and information security agreements.
Ability to multitask, problem solve, and balance competing priorities in a rapidly changing environment.
Proactive self-starter and willingness to tackle tasks and situations to ensure efficiency in high-pressure, high-volume environments.
Technical acumen to effectively use contract management tools, streamline processes, and creatively enhance procurement efficiency.
What We Require
Attorney in good standing with 3+ years experience in commercial contract negotiations.
Experience with contract life-cycle management systems, including procure-to-pay systems.