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Director, Commercial Legal - Enterprise Sales

Atlassian

San Francisco, CAJob$190–300K/yrPosted 2w agoStill listed today

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Compensation
$190–300K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Qualified To Practice Law

Job overview

Atlassian is seeking an experienced commercial counsel to support enterprise customer transactions and partner closely with Sales across the Central and Western U.S., Canada, and LATAM. The role negotiates cloud agreements, advises on customer and contract issues, trains Sales teams, and leads legal and cross-functional projects. The candidate should bring SaaS contracting experience, technology and cloud knowledge, sound business judgment, and the ability to practice law in their local jurisdiction.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Commercial LawsContract NegotiationSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Data SecurityCyber SecurityRevenue RecognitionInterpersonal CommunicationsPublic SpeakingSaaS Contract NegotiationData ProtectionCybersecuritySoftware KnowledgeCloud ServicesGenerative AIBusiness JudgmentCommunicationPresentation SkillsFlexibilityCollaborationRelationship BuildingEmpathyCreative Problem SolvingRisk Assessment

Qualifications

Qualified to Practice LawExtensive SaaS Contract Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Full job description

Overview

We’re looking for an experienced commercial counsel to join our Commercial Legal team! This is a great opportunity to join a growing Commercial Legal team and support Atlassian’s most critical enterprise transformations. You will closely partner with our Sales team to get critical deals done with enterprise customers in the Central/West U.S., Canada, and LATAM. This is a great opportunity to join a growing Commercial Legal team and support key customer transactions for Atlassian. Working at Atlassian Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll get to:

  • Negotiate enterprise cloud agreements for Atlassian’s products and services. In doing so, you’ll partner with Sales and other Atlassians to drive customer deals to execution.

  • Provide pragmatic, business-minded guidance on customer requests and contract-related issues.

  • Develop support materials and provide trainings to educate our Sales teams on contract terms and other legal issues.

  • Lead special projects to scale the Legal and Sales functions, and bring a legal lens to other critical cross-functional projects across the quote-to-cash process.

  • Drive complex, strategic customer deals to execution by partnering with Sales and other Atlassians (including in our Privacy, Trust, Finance and Product teams).

More about you:

  • You take ownership, roll up your sleeves, and get things done, while managing risk.

  • You work collaboratively and develop positive relationships with business stakeholders to strengthen the connection between our team and the business - with a sense of humor and resiliency, under tight deadlines, and while managing multiple priorities.

  • You bring empathy and understanding to your conversations with customers, seeking to find a path forward that balances company risk and customer needs.

  • You effectively navigate a decentralized and complex organization spread around the globe.

  • You have a strong understanding of software, cloud services and generative AI, associated business models, and technology industry trends.

  • You think creatively beyond the “legal” box to generate possible solutions and options for the business, clearly articulating risk-based recommendations.

  • You effectively communicate with the business and customers to help them understand and follow the rules and parameters imposed by laws.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range. Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter. This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Pay Ranges

In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are: Zone A: $229,500 - $299,625 Zone B: $206,550 - $269,663 Zone C: $190,485 - $248,689

Qualifications

On your first day, we’ll expect you to have:

  • Extensive experience negotiating SaaS contracts with enterprise customers is a must.

  • Ability to handle data protection, cybersecurity and revenue recognition issues in connection with commercial contracts.

  • Passion for understanding our customers, products, culture, and business model.

  • Excellent business judgment, strong communication skills, and the ability to work flexibly with a variety of teams.

  • Strong presentation skills, especially with internal business leaders.

  • Willingness to handle new areas of responsibility.

  • Qualified to practice law in your local jurisdiction.

Benefits & Perks Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits. About Atlassian At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together. We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them. To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh. In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

How this job compares

Set against the 428 open Commercial Counsel jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$190–300K/yr
  • California median$200–261K/yr98 salary ranges
  • US median$168–227K/yr350 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $245K, is 8% above the California median midpoint ($228K) — in the middle half of Commercial Counsel salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 105 open Commercial Counsel jobs in California and 428 across the US. 20% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
Commercial Counsel postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 7 years (396 postings).
Education
335 of the 428 open Commercial Counsel jobs (78%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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