About Us
Nitro is a global document productivity company accelerating digital transformation in a world that demands the ability to work from anywhere, anytime, on any device. As a global player in the eSign and workflow productivity market, Nitro enables organisations to drive better business outcomes through 100% digital document processes and fast, efficient workflows. The Nitro Productivity Platform offers comprehensive SaaS business solutions, including highly secure eSigning and e-ID, powerful PDF productivity and industry-leading analytics, all supported by a superior customer success team. Nitro has over 3 million licensed users and 13,000+ Business Customers in more than 150 countries, including over 68% of the Fortune 500 and three of the Fortune 10. Nitro is headquartered in San Francisco with nine global hubs.
How We Work
Our mission is to help create, develop, and support an environment where great people come to do their best work. We believe there is a balance to strike between “work hard, play hard,” and we strive to improve in both areas every day.
It All Comes Back To Our Core Values
We put our customers, employees, and communities at the center of everything we do.
Nitro is a global document productivity company accelerating digital transformation in a world that demands the ability to work from anywhere, anytime, on any device. As a global player in the eSign and workflow productivity market, Nitro enables organisations to drive better business outcomes through 100% digital document processes and fast, efficient workflows. The Nitro Productivity Platform offers comprehensive SaaS business solutions, including highly secure eSigning and e-ID, powerful PDF productivity and industry-leading analytics, all supported by a superior customer success team. Nitro has over 3 million licensed users and 13,000+ Business Customers in more than 150 countries, including over 68% of the Fortune 500 and three of the Fortune 10. Nitro is headquartered in San Francisco with nine global hubs.
How We Work
Our mission is to help create, develop, and support an environment where great people come to do their best work. We believe there is a balance to strike between “work hard, play hard,” and we strive to improve in both areas every day.
It All Comes Back To Our Core Values
We put our customers, employees, and communities at the center of everything we do.
- Be Good - Nitronauts are good humans with big hearts that are respectful and supportive of each other. We celebrate individuality and diversity and strive to foster an environment where people can be themselves and do their best work.
- Performance First - We like to challenge ourselves. We’re passionate about exceeding expectations and stepping outside our comfort zones to get to the next level. It’s our ambition that pushes us to work hard and deliver strong results.
- No B.S. - This one is self-explanatory, but we’re all about transparency, honesty, and authenticity here. We don’t beat around the bush; we tell it like it is.
The Role
This legal function is key to Nitro’s current growth strategy. As a provider of mainly SaaS services in the space of workflow productivity (for example Nitro PDF Pro and Nitro Sign), we handle some of our customer’s most sensitive data. As also our business keeps expanding internationally, our legal department needs reinforcement. That’s why Nitro is looking for a hands-on legal counsel who enables our Sales and Business teams to scale and grow in a compliant and safe environment.
We are building an international legal team and for this particular role we are looking for a true team player who is capable of supporting our team in NAMER and APAC. The main focus in this role will be on commercial contract negotiations and data protection, but also to manage general legal request within the region, if needed with external advisors. You will be the main point of contact within your region for legal requests.
Mission
As a Legal Counsel
You will contribute to Nitro’s strategic growth by being a true partner for our Sales and Business teams and assist them in complex contract negotiations. You will also collaborate with security and compliance teams, ensuring our products and services are being developed in a secure and compliant way. You will be involved in designing legal operations and setting up processes to make workstreams more efficient. In tight collaboration with our Legal Counsel (Europe), you will design the future legal roadmap for Nitro and assist in implementing it. You will have to prioritize and paint the bigger picture behind individual ideas or features.
Examples of topics you’ll be expected to contribute to:
- Draft Terms of Service for SaaS services for NAMER and APAC region;
- Negotiate complex SaaS agreements and data processing agreements;
- Advise on implementing local data protection legislation within your region;
- Execute and implement new legal processes to make our business as efficient as possible;
- Review vendor agreements and advise the business in mitigating risks;
- Advise the product team in how to develop compliant functions and features within the products we offer;
- Do research on compliancy with local legislation;
- Be a true business partner to different teams and manage legal request which might be out of tour comfort zone (HR, corporate, etc.)
You will also assist our DPO Office, currently consisting of our Head of Compliance, VP Product eSign (@Filip Verreth) and Legal Counsel .
You will contribute to building a transparent and business enabling Legal function, in line with Nitro’s focus on empowering the team. We’d also love you to contribute your ideas to improve our legal operations, especially on the contracts and privacy side.
About Nitro’s culture, the team is not hierarchical: We all collaborate, brainstorm and help each other make the best decisions. Work is not delegated at Nitro; you would identify the priorities you think are truly important and the projects on which you think you can create the most value. You will be able to collaborate with any stakeholder that is relevant to the projects you choose to lead. Other members of the Legal team will support you and set you up for success by helping you adapt quickly to Nitro’s culture and work methods.
Hard Skills We'll Be Looking For
You will contribute to building a transparent and business enabling Legal function, in line with Nitro’s focus on empowering the team. We’d also love you to contribute your ideas to improve our legal operations, especially on the contracts and privacy side.
About Nitro’s culture, the team is not hierarchical: We all collaborate, brainstorm and help each other make the best decisions. Work is not delegated at Nitro; you would identify the priorities you think are truly important and the projects on which you think you can create the most value. You will be able to collaborate with any stakeholder that is relevant to the projects you choose to lead. Other members of the Legal team will support you and set you up for success by helping you adapt quickly to Nitro’s culture and work methods.
Hard Skills We'll Be Looking For
- Strong written communication skills and structure, demonstrated through experience leading complex projects with multiple stakeholders
- Great negotiations skills
- Good knowledge on technical aspects of doing business as a SaaS company
- A very good level of written and spoken English.
- Ability to simplify and propose clear trade-offs and solutions, as you’ll need to interact with non-lawyers on a daily basis.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in Privacy, IT and technology advisory at a law firm or in-house at a technology SaaS company, working with product and sales teams.
Soft Skills That Would Make You An Excellent Fit
- Fun to work with, stimulated by sophisticated interactions
- Problem solving mindset and can do/get it done attitude
- Openness to feedback and eagerness to learn and grow
- Most excited when having to think very pragmatically about risks, understand business priorities, and keep members’ interests top of mind.
Why Nitro?
Benefits
Along with our regular benefits and programs (including health, dental, vision, retirement as standard), we are also very proud to offer a few additional initiatives to future Nitronauts
Our goal is to empower our Nitronauts—to make an impact, work better together, and believe any goal is attainable. We take pride in the perks and benefits provided to employees that make their day-to-day lives more enjoyable and secure.
Flex Time Off
Work-life balance is important at Nitro, and we understand that there are events that we cannot plan for. We are proud to offer Flex Time Off to be used for holidays, spending days with your family, or appointments.
Flexible Forever
We will offer a flexible work environment forever. This hybrid approach allows our team the flexibility to work remotely and have access to in-person time for collaboration sessions and team offsites.
90 Days Away
We offer the opportunity for employees to travel and explore while working from anywhere. Employees can extend vacations and spend more time with family, and work from anywhere for up to 90 days.
Nitro Resource Groups
Nitro supports our diverse group of Nitronauts who come together to celebrate their passions, share their unique perspectives, experiences, and contributions to make Nitro a more inclusive place to work.
Families @ Nitro
We have the opportunity and responsibility to ensure the well-being of our employees, which includes offering support when and where it matters most. From generous leave to fertility benefits, Nitro supports team members who may be on or considering a path to parenthood, whatever that looks like.
We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. Nitro provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know.
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