Job Overview
Location
Chicago
Job Type
Full-time
Category
HR & Recruiting
Date Posted
May 21, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As Commercial Counsel at ActiveCampaign, you will serve as a strategic legal partner to the business, reporting directly to the General Counsel, and play a key role in shaping the legal infrastructure that supports the company’s global SaaS growth.
- • You will lead the review, negotiation, and refinement of commercial contracts with customers, vendors, and strategic partners, transforming complex redlines into streamlined, automated workflows that accelerate deal velocity.
- • You will partner with sales, product, finance, and engineering teams to ensure legal compliance while enabling rapid business execution in a fast-moving technology environment.
- • You will contribute to the development and standardization of legal templates, playbooks, and processes, leveraging legal operations principles to increase efficiency and scalability.
- • You will provide practical, business-focused legal advice on a wide range of commercial matters, including SaaS agreements, data privacy, intellectual property, and partnership structures.
- • You will help safeguard ActiveCampaign’s interests by identifying and mitigating legal risks in high-stakes transactions while supporting innovation and market expansion.
🎯 Requirements
- • Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
- • 5+ years of experience in commercial contracting, preferably within a technology or SaaS company.
- • Proven ability to negotiate and draft complex SaaS, licensing, and partnership agreements.
- • Strong understanding of data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) and their application to commercial contracts.
- • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively across cross-functional teams.
- • Experience leveraging legal technology or contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools to improve legal operations.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive salary and performance-based bonus structure.
- • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans.
- • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
- • Generous paid time off and company holidays.
- • Professional development stipend and support for continuing legal education (CLE).
- • Hybrid work flexibility with access to ActiveCampaign’s Chicago office.
Skills & Technologies
About ActiveCampaign, LLC
ActiveCampaign provides cloud-based customer experience automation software that unifies email marketing, marketing automation, sales automation, and CRM for small to mid-size businesses. Its platform enables personalized campaigns across email, web, SMS, and social channels, leveraging machine learning to segment audiences, trigger workflows, and score leads. Founded in 2003, the company serves over 180,000 customers in 170 countries, integrating with more than 870 third-party applications to consolidate customer data and automate engagement throughout the lifecycle.
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