VP, Legal Commercial

** Our Company*
* At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform activates enterprise intelligence by unifying data, knowledge and business context to achieve tangible outcomes. With Teradata, organizations can provide agents with full context for impact when it matters. Our solution lets businesses connect and scale on premises, in the cloud, or through a hybrid approach.

Teradata delivers real business value with AI.

** What You'll Do*
* The Commercial Legal team is a strategic partner to Teradata's global go-to-market organization, enabling the company to transact with speed, confidence, and integrity across every market we operate in. We work closely with Sales, Finance, Revenue, and cross-functional stakeholders to review, draft, and negotiate complex commercial and technology agreements-from enterprise SaaS and cloud platform deals to strategic alliances and public sector contracting.

Our globally distributed team operates asynchronously and partners with internal clients, customers, and outside counsel to improve templates and playbooks, scale consistent contracting processes across regions, and provide practical legal guidance that keeps pace with an evolving landscape-including data privacy requirements, AI-specific terms, and the regulatory developments shaping how enterprise AI is bought and sold. As Teradata advances its Trusted AI strategy and expands its data analytics stack across the enterprise, Commercial Legal plays a central role in translating those capabilities into deal structures that protect and enable the business.

+ Define and execute the long-term strategy for Teradata's global commercial legal function, aligning legal priorities with company-wide revenue growth, market expansion, and the evolution of our data analytics platform.

+ Serve as the primary legal executive partner to the CRO, CFO, CPO, CTO, and GTM leadership, advising on commercial strategy, enterprise deal structures, pricing and packaging risks and Trusted AI contracting at the highest levels of complexity and materiality.

+ Build, lead, and develop a world-class team of commercial attorneys and contract managers across multiple regions-fostering a high-performance, async-first culture.

+ Set enterprise-wide standards for commercial contracting, including risk tiering, escalation frameworks, template governance, and playbook strategy that scale consistently across regions and deal types.

+ Benchmark AI-specific contractual terms across the enterprise market to ensure Teradata's standard positions reflect current practice. Lead Teradata's negotiating posture on Trusted AI deal issues, including data usage, model training, output ownership, liability allocation, and transparency obligations.

+ Partner with the CAO Operations team on continuous improvement and optimization of Teradata's CLM system, with full integration across the Quote-to-Cash process. Champion AI-powered legal tools and legal operations capabilities that drive contracting efficiency, pipeline visibility, and data-informed decision-making.

+ Lead Teradata's most significant strategic partnerships, structuring and negotiating complex co-sell, reseller, and marketplace agreements in coordination with the GTM and Product teams.

+ Oversee Trusted AI governance contracting across customer, partner, and supplier agreements. Translate evolving global AI regulations-including the EU AI Act and emerging U.S. frameworks-into practical contracting positions and contribute to policy guidance.

+ Partner with the Procurement function covering global vendor contracting, inbound SaaS, professional services, and infrastructure agreements-partnering with Finance, Security, and Privacy on vendor risk frameworks.

+ Serve as a senior voice on cross-functional initiatives spanning Legal, Finance, Product, Revenue, and Procurement-influencing decisions that shape how Teradata goes to market globally.

** Who You'll Work With*
* As Vice President, Legal Commercial, you will own the vision, strategy, and execution of Teradata's global commercial legal function at the most senior level, reporting to…