Legal Counsel

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.

This is a hybrid role based in Boston, MA, with an expectation of working from the office three days per week.

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.  

In this role you will:

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

• Work with legal leadership on legal projects such as M&A, intellectual property, and data protection

• 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 You’ll Bring Include

• Admission to and good standing with the Massachusetts bar (or eligibility for an in-house counsel waiver).

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

• 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.

• Experience or interest in public sector procurement and familiarity with FedRAMP-related requirements.

• 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.

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

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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.

Rapid7, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. A candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, and certifications. We evaluate compensation decisions on a case-by-case basis, and it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the very top of the salary range.

The salary range for this role in the US is:

Salary ranges may vary based on geographical location. This range does not include variable/incentive compensation, equity and benefits (where applicable/eligible). 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law.