Company Description

Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of more than 2,000 bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the flexibility of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself— Dropbox is ready for you.

Team Description

The Dropbox Legal, Policy, Trust & Privacy Team safeguards our company to enable innovation while protecting our users, platform, and business. Our team navigates complex challenges at the intersection of technology and law, embracing agility to tackle the changing landscape while ensuring compliance and integrity. From governance to risk, compliance to public policy, we combine creative problem-solving with legal expertise to help our employees and users work securely, drive responsible growth, and shape the future of policy around technology. If you're excited about protecting trust in the digital age, join our Legal team. Areas of work include Governance, Risk, Compliance, Public Policy, Privacy, Intellectual Property, Commercial Contracts, Employment Law, and Regulatory Affairs.

Role Description

We’re looking for a Global Head of Commercial Legal to lead Dropbox’s commercial legal team. Reporting directly to the General Counsel, this leadership role offers an exciting opportunity to set commercial legal strategy for Dropbox and have direct, company-wide impact.

This role is for an experienced leader in the commercial legal space with a client-first mindset, and a passion for creativity, innovation and leveraging technology to run a world class commercial legal function in support of Dropbox’s business goals. You’ll lead a team of attorneys and professionals responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial contracts with Dropbox customers, business partners, and vendors around the world. Willing to act as both player and coach as needed, you'll be responsible for partnering with our sales, product, procurement, finance and other business teams to deliver efficient, scalable approaches to commercial matters.

The ideal candidate is a people-first, results-driven leader who is passionate about supporting the business and who thrives in solving legal, technology and business issues; and is a team player who is effective in collaborating with others.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a global team of attorneys and legal analysts supporting Dropbox’s sales, product, procurement, finance, and other business teams.
• Engage personally in complex deals and work collaboratively with various company teams to implement company initiatives.
• Develop and collaboratively implement an innovative strategy to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of delivering commercial legal support to Dropbox’s business.
• Partner with our LegalOps team to increase process automation, legal technology, and other efficiencies.
• Be an active and trusted legal leader to key stakeholders across the company.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10+ years as a practicing commercial attorney, including substantive experience in drafting and negotiating highly complex commercial agreements, including SaaS, licensing, channel partnerships and reseller/distributor agreements
• Experience leading a globally distributed team at a SaaS company
• Excellent manager who drives performance while building trusted relationships and empowering team members
• Ability to translate complex legal issues into clear and simple guidance, and to partner effectively across all levels of the company
• Passion for client service and efficiency
• Familiarity with Ironclad and other legal systems and tools
• High integrity, strong ethics, and an unflappable demeanor
• J.D. with strong academic credentials and demonstrated record of success as a lawyer
• Member in good standing of bar and (if applicable) in-house counsel registration

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.