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Senior Counsel, Commercial (pipeline req for EMEA)
LegalRemote — United Kingdom, EMEA
Published on 2026-11-13
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About this role
ClickHouse is seeking a senior commercial lawyer to support its EMEA sales organization and revenue-generating activities. The role focuses on negotiating complex customer agreements and building scalable legal processes for the region.
About the company
ClickHouse is a high-performance columnar database built for real-time analytics on large volumes of data.
The team
Commercial Legal team supporting the EMEA sales team.
What you'll do
- Review and negotiate customer contracts, independently managing complex cross-border transactions through signature.
- Provide pragmatic legal advice and build trusted relationships with EMEA sales and cross-functional teams.
- Monitor legal, regulatory, and compliance developments relevant to the EMEA business.
- Train internal stakeholders, mentor junior legal team members, and maintain agreements, policies, and templates.
- Build EMEA legal playbooks, templates, and scalable workflows.
What we're looking for
- Qualified lawyer in good standing in the UK or another European jurisdiction, with the right to work in the hiring location.
- At least 7 years of combined law firm and in-house experience.
- Experience drafting, negotiating, and closing complex commercial technology transactions and enterprise SaaS agreements across jurisdictions.
- Knowledge of SaaS and software licensing issues, including privacy, security, intellectual property, open source, revenue recognition, and tax.
- Strong business judgment, communication, relationship-building, and organizational skills.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting a high-growth infrastructure SaaS company.
- EU/UK data protection experience and familiarity with regulated customer requirements such as DORA.
- Experience negotiating on customer paper and using playbooks and fallback positions.
- Fluency in additional European languages.
- Local qualification in the hiring jurisdiction or active pursuit of it.
Benefits
- Employer contributions toward healthcare.
- Equity for eligible new team members.
- Flexible time off in the US and generous time off in other countries.
- $500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Company-wide in-person gatherings.