What are the responsibilities and job description for the Commercial Counsel, IP & Supply Chain position at Shipbob Inc?
Title: Commercial Counsel, IP and Supply Chain
Location: Remote in these states: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, KS, KY, ID, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI
As a member of the ShipBob Team, you will benefit from an environment where everything is achievable. We aim to be a place where you can:
Write Your Career Story. Because we are solving some of the most difficult problems in global commerce, you have the opportunity to write the story that will make your career.
Experience Global Impact and Global Connection. At ShipBob we benefit from diverse cultures and perspectives in service of the global community.
Grow With An Ownership Mindset. We believe that great innovation comes from great transparency. We are more resilient and more creative when we have an inclusive and transparent culture where everyone knows our strengths and opportunities.
Role Description:
As Commercial Counsel, you will play an integral role to support our rapidly growing and evolving tech enabled e-commerce platform that enables third party logistics, warehousing, fulfillment, and supply chain operations. You will work directly with the business, serving as counsel on strategic commercial and intellectual property initiatives, providing day-to-day advice, guiding privacy and data protection initiatives, and handling pre-litigation disputes and inquiries.
You will develop strategies for handling legal issues in creative, business-centric ways and you will build processes that address risk and allow the business flexibility and freedom to move quickly.
About You:
At ShipBob, we’re looking to bring on board people who embody our core values:
Be Mission-Driven. We want team members that are passionate about helping entrepreneurs improve their business, and bring that passion every day.
Be Humble. We have ambitious goals, and our team members understand that success or failure depends on us working together and leaving egos at the door.
Be Resilient. Logistics is a complicated business. So is software. We value team members that never give up and keep iterating until a problem is solved.
Be a Creative Problem Solver. As a startup, we value smart, innovative solutions to complex problems. We fall in love with the problem, not our “favorite” solution.
What you’ll do:
Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts in the US and internationally, including terms of service, warehousing and fulfillment agreements, carrier and transportation agreements, broker agreements, partnership agreements, marketing agreements, bailee agreements, and procurement agreements, etc.
Manage the Legal team’s intellectual property and data privacy initiatives, including negotiating technology agreements, developing terms of service, product development, GDPR and CCPA compliance, and IP portfolio strategy.
Collaborate with various teams such as Transportation and Warehousing Operations, Product, Engineering, Revenue, and Procurement to collect input, ensuring our standard agreements appropriately reflect business needs.
Stay up to date on relevant industry, commercial, intellectual property, privacy and compliance issues.
Develop internal processes to inspire growth and capture new learnings.
Efficiently manage outside legal resources.
Other duties/responsibilities as necessary.
What you’ll bring to the table:
5 years of relevant commercial transactional and intellectual property experience, in-house and/or at a law firm.
Significant experience negotiating, drafting, and solving issues for various types of commercial contracts, including those relating to warehousing, logistics and intellectual property.
Demonstrated entrepreneurial initiative - ability to self-manage, find creative ways to work through barriers, actively learn necessary skills, and manage projects to completion with minimal supervision.
Excellent written, oral, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills.
Common sense, great judgment, and a good sense of humor.
J.D. from an accredited law school and membership in at least one state bar.
We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.
About Us:
ShipBob is a cloud-based logistics platform that partners with over 7,000 e-commerce businesses to help make their entrepreneurial dreams a reality. We offer a full suite of fulfillment solutions for our merchants, including the ability to improve their transit times, shipping costs and deliver best in class experience to their customers. With an almost 100% accuracy rate in fulfilling orders and orders shipped on time, our merchants can count on us to deliver excellent service.
As one of the fastest growing tech companies in Chicago with over $300M raised from blue-chip investors like Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, our goal is to continue to be the #1 best fulfillment technology in the industry.
ShipBob believes in transparency while providing a competitive total compensation package with a pay for performance approach. The expected base pay range for this position is $200,000 - $250,000.
Perks & Benefits:
Medical, Dental, Vision & Basic Life Insurance
Paid Maternity/Parental Leave Program
Flexible Time Off Program
Paid Sick Leave and Paid Emergency Leave
Floating Holidays (2 days/year)
Wellness Days (1 day/quarter)
401K Match
Competitive Salary, Performance Bonus & Equity
Variety of voluntary benefits, such as, short term disability
Referral Bonus Program
Fun Culture >>> Check us out on Instagram (@lifeatshipbob)
Classification: Exempt
Reports to: Head of Commercial Legal
ShipBob 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.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
