Founded in 2018 with co-headquarters in Dublin and Boston, Tines powers some of the world's most important workflows. Our orchestration, automation, and AI platform enables businesses to operate more effectively, mitigate risk, reduce tech debt, and focus on high-impact work.
Tines serves a diverse range of customers, from startups to public companies, including Canva, Databricks, Elastic, Kayak, Intercom, and McKesson. As an integrator across the entire tech stack, Tines connects with any API-enabled service. This flexibility enables our customers to achieve their highest-priority goals faster. And because Tines is secure and private by design, it’s popular with security, IT and other security-focused teams.
At Tines, we're driven by our values of Simplicity, Speed, and Soundness. We're committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences while fostering a company culture that nurtures individual curiosity, growth, and integrity. We’re excited about what’s next, and we’re looking for others to join us on our journey.
This is a remote position ideally based in either Mountain or West Coast time zones.
Job Summary
Tines is looking for an entrepreneurial Legal Counsel / Attorney to join our expanding Legal team in the US. You will report to our Director of Legal ( based in U.S. -central time ) and will be a key cross-functional business partner in particular to the U.S. Sales, Partnerships and Customer Success teams. This is a unique opportunity to be an early member of the Tines legal team and have considerable impact on Tines’ growth and expansion over the coming years.
What you will be doing:
- Lead negotiations of all forms of commercial contracts, such as SaaS agreements, self-hosted software licensing terms, data processing agreements, partner agreements (referral, reseller, tech alliance and integration), MSAs and SOWs, MNDAs and vendor agreements
- Own the maintenance and updating of playbooks, commercial templates, sales enablement materials, etc.
- Apply your expertise in core contractual areas such as indemnification, liability, IP, security and privacy standards to our fast-paced negotiations
- Work closely with North American GTM sales team to provide world class representation
- Support global initiatives such as streamlining legal processes as we develop our product and enter new international markets, and partnering with geographic leads to ensure alignment
- Collaborate with outside counsel on complex or third party paper deals as needed
- As part of a legal operations and data driven team, help follow, enhance and develop scalable processes for all stages of deal lifecycles
What you bring with you:
- Active good standing status membership to a U.S. Bar
- Minimum 5 Years experience with general corporate law (emphasis on commercial transactions)
- Strong negotiator of commercial contracts
- Excellent business judgment - you know when to say no, yes, or it depends
- Customer-focused mentality being mindful that your colleagues are your customers and you are there to serve in that capacity
- Understanding of the value of and embracing cross-functional collaboration in a rapidly scaling environment
- Not afraid to roll up your sleeves and turn your hand to wherever your support is needed
- Embodiment of our core values: speed, soundness and simplicity
Target Annual Compensation: $150-160k salary + equity
Applicants for this opportunity must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
At Tines, we’re all about trying new things and taking the leap. If you’re second-guessing your application, we hope you’ll trust your gut and take the leap too! Applying for a new job isn’t always easy, especially if you’re thinking of a career pivot – but we’re big believers in learning and growth here at Tines, so you’ve nothing to worry about. A variety of experience, perspectives, and voices makes us the company we are. We’d love to hear from you.
Tines provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation.
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