Senior Corporate Counsel, Commercial and Data Protection

About Us

At Sitecore, our mission is to simplify how brands reach, engage, and serve people by delivering intelligent, personalized digital experiences that connect the world. We empower the world’s most iconic brands to build lifelong relationships with their customers—seamlessly, smartly, and  the leading provider of agentic digital experience software, Sitecore brings together content, commerce, and data into one composable platform that enables brands to deliver millions of meaningful, adaptive experiences every day.

Trusted by global leaders such as American Express, Porsche, Starbucks, and L’Oréal, Sitecore helps brands transform engagement through experiences that are not only personalized, but predictive and dynamic. Our foundation is our people—a diverse, passionate, and collaborative global team spanning over 25 countries. We believe that every experience matters, and that belief starts with how we work together. From engineering to customer experience, AI capabilities are becoming integral to how we design, build, and deliver the next generation of digital experiences.

As Senior Corporate Counsel, Commercial and Data Protection, you will support Sitecore’s commercial legal needs across the Americas, with a focus on customer‑facing SaaS, cloud, software licensing, and services agreements. You will also advise on data protection, privacy, AI, and product‑related legal issues that arise in the sales cycle and across Sitecore’s technology offerings. This role is primarily a commercial contracting role, with meaningful responsibility for data protection and privacy terms, customer privacy escalations, and product and AI‑related legal support.

You should be comfortable advising senior stakeholders, managing competing priorities, and helping the business close deals while protecting Sitecore’s legal, operational, and commercial position.

• Draft, review, and negotiate customer‑facing SaaS, cloud, software licensing, services, partner, and other commercial agreements.
• Serve as a primary legal partner for the Americas Sales organization, providing practical legal guidance on commercial transactions, customer negotiations, approvals, and escalations.
• Advise on contract structure, risk allocation, liability, indemnities, service levels, security terms, data protection terms, AI terms, and product commitments.
• Negotiate Data Processing Agreements, Standard Contractual Clauses, privacy addenda, subprocessors provisions, data transfer terms, and related privacy and data protection provisions.
• Provide first‑line legal guidance on privacy and data protection questions from Sales, Customer Success, Product, Security, Procurement, and Finance.
• Work closely with Sitecore’s Privacy and Security teams on customer privacy escalations, customer due diligence, data protection risk assessments, vendor privacy issues, and product privacy reviews.
• Support Product, Engineering, Security, and Privacy teams on product updates, feature releases, AI‑enabled functionality, integrations, beta programs, proofs of concept, and customer‑facing product commitments.
• Advise on legal issues connected to data usage, personalization, product telemetry, AI outputs, automated processing, customer disclosures, and emerging technology.
• Maintain and evolve contract templates, playbooks, clause libraries, fallback positions, approval processes, and internal guidance.
• Deliver internal training on commercial contracting, privacy, data protection, AI terms, and legal processes.
• Collaborate with Finance, Privacy, Security, Product, Procurement, Compliance, and other teams on legal and business initiatives.
• Support general corporate matters and special projects as needed.

• JD from an accredited U.S. law school and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Minimum five years of relevant legal experience in an in‑house legal department.
• Strong experience negotiating SaaS, cloud, software licensing, data protection, and technology agreements.
• Proven ability to support Sales teams in a legal capacity, preferably at a software, SaaS, cloud, data, AI, martech, or enterprise…