Commercial Counsel Legal & Compliance San Francisco, CA

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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Rippling is looking for a thoughtful, highly-motivated, business-minded attorney to join our Legal & Compliance Team as Commercial Counsel. In this role, you will partner closely with teams across the company, including Sales, Business Development, Client Services, Product, Procurement, Finance, Accounting, and Security, to support Rippling’s commercial operations and help the company scale responsibly. You’ll report to our Assistant General Counsel, Commercial.

This role is ideal for a lawyer with a few years of experience who enjoys partnering with business teams, solving practical problems, and helping move deals forward. You’ll sit at the center of many of Rippling’s most important business relationships and help to negotiate and structure agreements, advise teams on risk and strategy, and contribute to the tools and processes that allow the business to move quickly.

We are looking for someone who is proactive, collaborative, and comfortable balancing speed with sound judgement in a rapidly-evolving environment. You are ready to learn fast, act fast, and make a measurable impact from Day 1. This role is a great fit for someone who also thinks operationally about legal work. We love fresh perspectives and welcome your innovative thoughts on achieving that intersection of efficiency and practical risk mitigation.

• Partner with Sales, Business Development, Procurement, and Client Services teams to support commercial negotiations and help move deals forward.
• Draft, review and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements, including customer, vendor and partnership contracts.
• Provide practical legal and compliance guidance to business teams both in commercial relationships and internal operations.
• Help develop and improve contract templates, playbooks, and other tools that support faster and more consistent contract cycles.
• Work cross-functionally with Privacy, Security, Product, Engineering, Finance, as well as the other Legal and Compliance functions to support new products, services, and operational initiatives from the commercial perspective.
• Help to build scalable approaches to regulatory and compliance challenges as Rippling continues to grow globally.
• Support broader legal initiatives as part of the Legal and Compliance team.

• 3+ years of combined legal experience at a law firm, in-house, or in another relevant role
• Experience with commercial contracting, ideally including technology or SaaS agreements.
• Strong judgement and a practical approach to balancing legal risk with business goals.
• Passion for efficient processes.
• Strong project management, organizational and analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent drafting and written and verbal communication skills with the ability to break down complex legal jargon into easy-to-understand and actionable advice.
• Ability to manage a high volume of matters and shifting priorities with efficiency, precision, and a sense of urgency.
• Sense of humor.
• Law degree (e.g., JD or equivalent).

• Experience working with data integrations and other technology transactions; strategic alliances; procurement processes and vendor negotiations; channel, reseller and referral sales, marketplaces and other distribution models; and AI, privacy…