Commercial Counsel

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life.
Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.
We're on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you'll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
Roblox is looking for a Commercial Counsel to support commercial and technology transactions.
We'll rely on you to help us develop and negotiate partnerships and commercial agreements to deploy the latest AI systems with main partners, build scalable contracting processes, and support business development and internal engineering teams.
While drafting, negotiating and advising on a large volume of strategic commercial agreements, you will consider security, IP licensing, compliance, regulatory and privacy/data protection issues, including negotiating DPAs.
You will be an important team member of a small group of legal professionals and will partner with appropriate teams to improve the contracting process.
Role is based in our San Mateo, CA location.
We work in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
You will: Draft, analyze, negotiate and complete complex commercial transactions with the company's enterprise customers and strategic partners, including AI Service Agreements, IP licensing agreements, and procurement agreements.
Collaborate with the product, partnership, engineering, InfoSec and procurement teams to achieve key business objectives and deliver strategic, solutions-focused counsel.
Support and propose projects to scale operations Maintain laser focus on user experience to develop and deliver organizational change and alternative legal solutions.
As a relatively small legal team supporting big projects, each attorney practices across multiple areas Report to Head of Commercial Contracts You have: JD; active membership in at least one U.
S.
state bar (California preferred).
5+ years of related legal experience (in-house preferred) with at least 3 years of experience developing and negotiating SaaS agreements and/or technology transactions.
Have substantive knowledge of enterprise software and other software licensing and distribution, strategic partnerships, and intellectual property (patent, trade secret, copyright) licensing arrangements.
You understand what's important in the context of a partnership or negotiation, the organization's mission, when to be flexible and when to draw a hard line.
You excel as a member of teams focused on customer service and building relationships and want to develop an understanding of our mission and services.
You are comfortable operating outside your areas of expertise and in uncharted legal territory.
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below.
The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand.
Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range.
This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
Annual Salary Range $201,560—$240,060 USD You'll Love: Industry-leading compensation package Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage A rewarding 401k program Flexible vacation policy Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy Roblox Admin badge for your avatar At Roblox HQ: Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit Annual CalTrain Go Pass Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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