Corporate Counsel, Commercial Transactions

At GoDaddy, the company that empowers everyday entrepreneurs, we are seeking an experienced commercial transactions attorney to join our team! This attorney will support a high volume of commercial agreements while serving as the primary legal partner for key distribution and go-to-market initiatives. This role will focus on drafting, reviewing, analyzing, and negotiating a wide variety of agreements, with an emphasis on scalability, efficiency, and strong business partnership. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the company’s Contracts team as it scales to meet the demands of our growing business. This role will report to the Director - Legal managing the enterprise focused team within commercial legal.

• →Independently manage a substantial number of commercial transactions. This includes drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements using established templates and playbooks. Use good judgment to decide when to raise concerns.
• →Support strategic and distribution-related partnerships, including drafting and negotiating reseller, partner, and program agreements, and contributing to more complex transactions in cooperation with experienced attorneys
• →Serve as the lead legal advisor for distribution and market entry efforts, including reseller programs, agency offerings, and community-based products, advising on contract structure and risk considerations
• →Handle a significant portion of day-to-day contract volume, including vendor agreements, amendments, statements of work, and order forms, ensuring timely and consistent execution
• →Proactively partner with business collaborators by working closely together, and taking the time to understand the business strategy
• →Provide feedback on standard form agreements, templates, and processes to improve efficiency and consistency, in partnership with senior attorneys and legal operations
• →Understand, identify, raise and address legal and business issues related to new and existing products and contracts
• →Advise business clients on legal issues and risks, complex agreement structures, approval processes, and company policies and procedures
• →Develop and refine contract templates, clauses, and processes to improve efficiency and velocity

• 8+ years of prior and relevant legal experience
• Independently managing a high volume of commercial transactions, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating vendor agreements, amendments, SOWs, order forms, and other contracts using established templates and playbooks
• Leading legal support for distribution, reseller, partner, market-entry, and go-to-market initiatives, advising on contract structure, risk, approval processes, and company policies
• Applying sound business and legal judgment to identify, address, and escalate issues across commercial, technology, SaaS/licensing, privacy, information security, procurement, sales, and related matters
• Serving as a trusted advisor to cross-functional business partners, including Procurement, Tax, Treasury, Accounting, Compliance, Marketing, Commerce, and distribution teams, by understanding business strategy and navigating competing priorities
• Improving contract velocity, consistency, and efficiency by developing, refining, and providing feedback on templates, clauses, playbooks, and legal processes in collaboration with senior attorneys and legal operations
• J.D. from an accredited law school and membership in good standing in at least one state bar