Senior Commercial Counsel

Who is Sonar?

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies.

Today, Sonar is trusted by +7M developers worldwide, including teams Microsoft, NASA, Master Card, and T‑Mobile.

We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.

We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.

And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.

At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.

We are looking for an exceptional and dynamic legal professional who can balance protecting our company with supercharging our growing global business. As a key member on the commercial squad of our legal team, you will drive initiatives and manage critical matters relating to commercial contracting. This may include managing contract reviews and negotiations in support of our global procurement needs, our Asia‑Pacific‑Japan sales region, our Europe‑Middle East‑Africa sales region, and channel partner network, depending on your interest and experience.

We are seeking a proactive, solution‑oriented thinker who is ready to take ownership and elevate the team’s performance. Reporting line and title will depend on the candidate, as we are open to a range of seniority levels.

• Lead critical commercial matters by independently negotiating a diverse range of complex commercial transactions, including sales agreements, vendor contracts, and channel partnership deals.
• Drive strategic alignment across the business by collaborating with legal, sales, procurement, finance, IT security, and executive teams to find creative, compliant, and business‑enabling solutions.
• Manage risk by advising internal stakeholders regarding key issues and risks in our contracts and ensure that our agreements reflect the most effective internal negotiating strategies.
• Pioneer efficiency improvements by leading the development and maintenance of a streamlined, efficient, and scalable contracting process, leveraging technology like contract management systems and AI drafting tools to clear blockers and find solutions.
• Embrace new challenges and manage a dynamic workload of emergent legal issues, supporting high‑growth company initiatives relating to product development, privacy compliance, and other matters.

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