Vice President (Legal Commercial)

Role Overview

Join GitLab as the Vice President (Legal Commercial) to lead the global commercial legal function and partner with senior leadership across the business. You’ll set the strategy for commercial legal operations, lead a multi-regional team, and be the primary legal partner to CRO, CFO, and GTM leadership.

Key Missions

• Define and execute the long-term strategy for GitLab’s global commercial legal function, aligning legal priorities with company revenue growth.
• Build, lead, and develop teams of commercial lawyers, contract managers, and legal operations professionals across multiple regions.
• Establish enterprise standards for commercial contracting, including:
  • Risk classification
  • Escalation frameworks
  • Contract template governance
  • Playbook/manual strategy

Responsibilities

• Lead the commercial legal leadership function and oversee commercial legal operations globally.
• Own leadership partnerships with CRO/CFO/GTM and influence at the C-suite level.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled legal work and implement AI-driven legal workflows.
• Provide expertise on enterprise contracting and complex agreement types.

Requirements

• 15+ years combined law firm and in-house experience, including senior commercial legal leadership in a global SaaS/enterprise technology company.
• J.D. (or equivalent) with bar admission in good standing in at least one U.S. state.
• 5+ years leading and scaling attorneys and contract managers, with a track record of developing talent and building high-performing commercial legal organizations.
• Strong operational and strategic execution: effective at the strategy level without missing operational details.
• Hands-on champion for AI-enabled legal work, including driving adoption of legal tools/workflows.
• Demonstrated fluency in AI governance and product/AI legal issues, including drafting/negotating AI-specific contractual terms and advising on AI regulatory requirements.
• Deep experience in enterprise SaaS contracting, strategic partnerships, data privacy, and complex partner/channel/public sector agreements.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP and FAR/DFARS (or equivalent frameworks).
• Hands-on experience owning or leading a CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management) implementation/expansion, with working knowledge of Quote-to-Cash integration across Sales, Finance, and Revenue Operations.
• Ability to lead geographically distributed teams in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.

Nice-to-Haves

• Proven deployment of AI-powered legal workflows at the team level (beyond awareness).
• Track record of advising on AI governance/product legal in a commercial SaaS context.