Senior Legal Counsel EMEA, (Commercial)
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Location : London or Paris
Some limited international work travel will be required.
We are looking for an experienced commercial and generalist lawyer to join Kong’s global commercial legal team, responsible for helping support Kong’s sales growth. In this role, you will be a trusted partner to the EMEA revenue teams. You will also have the opportunity to provide support to our APAC and AMER sales teams as the needs arise. This is a unique opportunity to play a central position as a trusted advisor in EMEA’s GTM successes as we grow and scale. You will draft, structure and negotiate customer contracts with some of the world’s biggest brands in financial services, technology, retail and other industries. You will be called on to assess legal and business risks, make sound decisions, and provide advice on a broad range of issues in areas such as SaaS, AI, privacy, security, alliances, open-source software and intellectual property, and assist with other issues as they come up. You will also partner with the wider Kong Legal team to address other corporate, compliance and other legal issues, and help develop scalable, global systems, processes and automations.
You will report to Kong’s Senior Director, Global Commercial, based in London, UK.
Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.
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Unlimited PTO
Sabbatical
Company Shutdown Days
Home Office Stipend
Work From Anywhere
Team Events & Social Budget
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