Rapid7’s Legal team is seeking a Legal Counsel with a primary focus on supporting our go-to-customer organization as a commercial legal counsel. In this role, you will deliver proactive, practical, and business-focused legal advice across the entire customer lifecycle while partnering closely with internal stakeholders and external customers, partners, and suppliers.

About the Team

The Commercial Legal Team at Rapid7 oversees all customer- and vendor-facing legal contracting. The team partners closely with Sales, Renewals, Channel & Partner teams, Procurement, and other go-to-customer stakeholders, while also collaborating with the broader Rapid7 Legal organization, which covers privacy and data protection, intellectual property, export law, corporate governance, litigation, international legal matters, employment law, regulatory matters, and compliance.

The Legal team is recognized across Rapid7 as a trusted and impactful business partner, delivering practical, solution-oriented legal advice that supports Rapid7’s commercial and strategic objectives.

About the Role

As a Legal Counsel - Commercial, you will work closely with internal go-to-customer stakeholders and external customers and partners across a wide range of commercial engagements. This is a highly collaborative role that requires strong business judgment, technical aptitude, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, global environment. Specifically, your focus will be to: 

• Negotiate a wide variety of commercial transactions on your own, or with the support of senior legal counsel

• Partner and collaborate with others such as, the Channel & Partner team and Procurement 

• Be part of a high performing, collaborative, proactive and practical legal team that will embrace your existing skills, while deepening your expertise as inhouse counsel
   

The skills and qualities you’ll bring include:

• Law degree and license to practice law in your jurisdiction.

• 2+ years of experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements, preferably within the technology or SaaS sector

• Strong knowledge of or interest in EU and UK data privacy and security regulations, including GDPR.

• Experience supporting go-to-market teams on software licensing, SaaS agreements, NDAs, services agreements, SOWs, and order forms.

• Demonstrated history of partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, Privacy, and Information Security teams.

• Ability to support stakeholders across EMEA and collaborate effectively with the U.S. based colleagues.

• Strong ability to translate complex legal requirements into clear, practical guidance for non-legal audiences.

• Interest in leveraging AI-enabled tools to improve legal processes and efficiency.

• Fluency in English; additional European languages (e.g., German) are a plus.

• Positive attitude, strong work ethic, and collaborative mindset.

• Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success. 

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That’s because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don’t be shy - apply today.

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About Rapid7

At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact. We’re building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.

Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we’re continuing to push the envelope just like we’ ve been doing for the past 20 years. If you ’re ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we’re ready to help you take command of your career. Join us.