Commercial and Product Counsel

Company Description

Givebutter is the most-loved nonprofit fundraising and CRM platform, empowering millions of changemakers to raise more, pay less, and give better. Nonprofits use Givebutter to replace multiple tools so they can launch fundraisers and events, use donation forms and donor management (CRM), send emails and text blasts—all in one place. Use of the Givebutter platform is completely free with a 100% transparent tip-or-fee model.

Givebutter has been certified as a Great Place to Work® every year since 2021, and is the #1 rated nonprofit software company on G2 across multiple categories.

Our mission is to empower the changemaker in all of us. We believe giving should be fun, so you’ll want to do it again, and we also believe that work should be fun, so that you’ll have the greatest impact.

Role Description

Givebutter is hiring a Commercial & Product Counsel to own Givebutter's commercial contracting function and serve as a trusted legal partner to teams across the company. You will be the first lawyer our cross-functional teams turn to on a daily basis, and you will have the autonomy to run the contracting motion end-to-end. Your work directly enables the General Counsel to shift from day-to-day tactical execution to strategic leadership, so your ability to operate independently and at speed is the single most important quality we're looking for.

The Legal team at Givebutter manages a steady flow of vendor agreements, customer contracts, partnership deals, and product questions that need sharp legal judgment, fast.

This is a high-ownership role. You will build and refine the playbooks, templates, and workflows that define how Givebutter contracts. You will counsel product teams on legal risk before features ship. You will negotiate deals that protect our reputation with the nonprofits who trust us. And you will do all of it using modern tools, including AI-powered contract review and agentic workflows, because we believe legal teams should build leverage through technology, not headcount.

We want to hear from people who…

• Have deep commercial contracting experience: you've negotiated hundreds of agreements across SaaS, vendor, customer, and data processing contexts, and you can do it quickly without sacrificing quality
• Have built contracting processes from scratch: templates, playbooks, fallback language, approval workflows, self-serve tools. You've done it before, and you can stand it up overnight if needed
• Have hands-on experience with AI tools for legal work: you've used AI-powered contract review, AI agents, or agentic workflows in practice (not just read about them), and you have opinions about what works
• Have strong product counseling skills: you can spot the legal issue in a product spec, explain the risk in plain language, and propose a path forward that doesn't kill the feature
• Can operate independently at high speed: you don't need to be told what to do next, you manage your own queue, and you exercise sound judgment about when to escalate
• Communicate clearly and directly with non-legal stakeholders: sales, PDE, finance, operations, people, and leadership
• Understand that reputation is everything for a platform that nonprofits trust with their fundraising, and you factor that into every decision

Responsibilities

Commercial Contracting (Primary Focus)

• First-chair all inbound vendor agreements: negotiate, redline, and close contracts with technology vendors, service providers, data processors, and other third parties across the full range of agreement types (SaaS, DPAs, NDAs, professional services, licensing)
• First-chair all outbound customer and sales contracts: own the contracting motion end-to-end