Commercial Counsel - Contract

About the role

As Covera continues to scale, we're looking for a Contract Commercial Counsel to become the primary legal partner supporting our commercial organization during an important period of transition. This is a full-time contract opportunity that will provide dedicated commercial legal support while helping maintain business continuity as our legal team evolves. The timeline for this engagement is to be determined, though we currently estimate it to be approximately six months.

This is a highly cross functional role where you'll partner closely with leaders across Sales, Product, Partnerships, Operations, Procurement, Security, Finance, and People to help the business move quickly while thoughtfully managing legal risk.

You'll own the company's day to day commercial contracting function, negotiating customer and vendor agreements, building scalable legal processes, improving contract operations, and helping establish best practices that enable growth. This role is designed to become the commercial contracting engine of our legal team, allowing the broader Legal team to remain focused on strategic, corporate, employment, regulatory, and other business critical priorities. We're looking for someone who enjoys solving business problems, collaborating across teams, and finding practical solutions rather than creating unnecessary friction.

This role offers broad visibility across the company and an opportunity to make an immediate impact while partnering closely with senior leaders across the organization.

In this role, you will be expected to:

• Own negotiation and drafting of commercial agreements including MSAs, SaaS Agreements, Statements of Work, Business Associate Agreements, Data Processing Agreements, amendments, procurement agreements, vendor contracts, partnership agreements, and NDAs.
• Partner closely with Sales to help accelerate deal velocity while appropriately managing legal and regulatory risk.
• Serve as the primary legal partner for day-to-day commercial legal requests across the business.