HomeJobsSnowflake › Legal

Corporate Counsel 2 - Commercial

Snowflake AU-Sydney FullTime Legal Posted 3w+ ago
Apply Now →

What it’s like to work at Snowflake

Data Cloud Platform · Bozeman, MT

3.7
Employee Rating
3.4
Work-Life Balance
414
Open Roles
eng-drivenequitylearningship-fast

What employees love

  • Massive-scale distributed systems work with top-tier compensation and RSUs
  • High technical bar, accessible senior leaders, and real learning opportunities

What could be better

  • Culture shifting under new leadership — holiday cuts and increased performance pressure
  • Quarterly planning overhead and oncall load vary significantly by team
View full Snowflake culture profile →

About the Role

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

We are looking for a creative and pragmatic problem solver to serve on our world-class Commercial Legal team, reporting to the Senior Director, Associate General Counsel, APJ. This role is based in our Sydney or Melbourne office with an in-person requirement of at least 3 days per week.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely and partner with Sales teams on SaaS transactions that drive company revenue.

• Structure, negotiate, and close complex sales transactional agreements.

• Provide sound advice and guidance on legal and business-related issues to senior business leaders.

• Manage risk and ensure business and compliance needs are accurately reflected in agreements.

• Work well in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.

• Respond promptly to the demands of an active technology sales team and their management.

• Develop and deliver training on legal issues and contract processes.

• Support continuous improvements of forms, policies and processes to help streamline, simplify and automate our contracting processes (including through the use of AI tools).

• Keep abreast of the rapidly evolving legal landscape affecting our expanding portfolio of service features.

A successful candidate will be able to forge strong relationships with Snowflake customers, as well as internal clients and cross-functional groups within Snowflake, including sales, professional services, alliances, finance, and deal desk. The right candidate will be flexible, fun, hard-working and have the desire to be impactful, as a key driver to Snowflake’s continued growth and success.

QUALIFICATIONS

• At least 6 years of legal experience including in-house experience with a successful, high-growth enterprise SaaS company.

• Law degree from a reputable university and current Australian practising certificate (or eligibility to hold one)

• Outstanding analytical, drafting, negotiation, collaboration, written and communication skills.

• Strong background with SaaS-centric issues (e.g., revenue recognition, tax, security, data privacy, intellectual property), professional services and various go-to-market programs.

• Exceptional and pragmatic organizational, project management, problem-solving and prioritization skills.

• Flexibility and eagerness to work hard in a fast-paced environment and meet tight deadlines (especially at quarter end).

• The ability to think and execute both strategically and tactically.

• Highly effective interpersonal skills with the ability to work with a wide variety of people at all levels inside and outside the organization.

• Service-oriented, responsive, professional and strong integrity.

• Experience working with highly regulated cloud customers (e.g., FinServ, healthcare, etc.) and/or experience supporting the sale of generative AI offerings (and negotiation of associated terms), is a plus.

• Experience in public sector contracting at state and/or federal level is a plus.

• Familiarity with contract lifecycle management (CLM) solutions and AI-enabled tools is a plus.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

Similar Roles

More at Snowflake
Principal Counsel, Assistant General Counsel, Public Sector
US-VA-McLean
Corporate Counsel 2 - Global Customer Experience
US-CA-Menlo Park
Corporate Counsel 2 - Product
US-CA-Menlo Park
Senior Corporate Counsel 1 - Intellectual Property
US-CA-Menlo Park
Corporate Counsel - Employment & Litigation (Americas)
US-CA-Menlo Park
Similar roles at other companies
AI Compliance Officer
Anthropic · Dublin, IE
Data Annotation Specialist, Safety
Cohere · Canada
Member of Technical Staff (AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco
Commercial Legal Counsel - Singapore
Mistral AI · Singapore
Legal Counsel, EMEA Commercial
Databricks · London, United Kingdom

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the work-life balance like at Snowflake?
Snowflake has a work-life balance score of 3.4/5 based on employee reviews. This is below average, which may indicate a fast-paced, demanding work environment.
What is Snowflake’s culture like?
Snowflake is characterized by these culture values: eng-driven, equity, learning, ship-fast. Based on employee reviews, the company has an overall rating of 3.7/5. Massive-scale distributed systems work with top-tier compensation and RSUs
How many open roles does Snowflake have?
Snowflake currently has 414 open roles across departments including engineering, product, sales, and more. Roles are refreshed daily from their careers page.
Is this role remote-friendly?
This role is located in AU-Sydney. Check the job description above for specific location and remote work details.
Apply for this role at Snowflake →