Job: Commercial Legal Director

🚀 Shape the future of cloud commerce with Pax8

Director, Commercial & Product Legal — USA — Pax8
 

🌟 Why this role is special

This is a rare opportunity to lead at the intersection of law, AI, product innovation, and commercial scale. As Director, Commercial & Product Legal, you’ll help architect how Pax8 designs, launches, and scales next-generation products in an AI‑native organization — while redefining how modern legal teams operate using intelligent tools.

You won’t just support growth — you’ll actively enable it.
 

🌍 Our culture, our mindset

At Pax8, we’re building more than a marketplace — we’re building a company where curiosity, empathy, and ambition thrive together. We believe in trust, transparency, and learning fast. As we evolve into an AI‑first organization, our people grow alongside the technology, shaping how work gets done rather than reacting to it.
 

⚖️ What you’ll be doing

🧠 Using AI as a force multiplier — embedding AI‑powered legal tools into everyday workflows to unlock scale, speed, and insight.
📈 Designing for growth — building programmatic, repeatable, and flexible legal frameworks that support a rapidly expanding marketplace.
🤝 Partnering deeply — collaborating with product, engineering, marketing, and commercial leaders to deliver pragmatic, business‑aligned legal guidance.
🛠 Driving execution — turning strategy into clear roadmaps aligned to business OKRs and measurable outcomes.
📚 Standardizing and simplifying — creating playbooks, templates, and guidance that empower teams to move faster with confidence.
🌱 Leading with agility — staying ahead of legal, regulatory, and industry developments in cloud, AI, and emerging technologies.
 

🎯 The impact you’ll make

Your work will directly influence how Pax8 brings innovative products to market, manages risk in an AI‑driven environment, and scales responsibly. You’ll enable teams to move faster, negotiate smarter, and build trust with partners — shaping how legal operates as a strategic growth engine.
 

✅ What you bring

• Extensive experience advising on complex commercial and technology agreements, particularly within cloud and software ecosystems.
• Demonstrated success operating both in private practice and in‑house at a technology‑driven organization.
• Proven leadership in building scalable legal processes, templates, and playbooks that support growth.
• Strong commercial judgment with the ability to balance legal risk against business opportunity in an AI‑native context.
• Working knowledge of intellectual property, open‑source licensing, software distribution, and evolving AI, cybersecurity, and data privacy considerations.
• Exceptional communication skills and a collaborative approach that earns trust across senior leadership and cross‑functional teams.
• Hands‑on comfort with AI‑powered tools, modern productivity platforms, and CRM systems.
   

🤝 Trust and how we hire

At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust based relationships — starting with how we hire.

To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we're excited to meet you.

We also use thoughtfully applied AI-enabled tools to support our hiring process. These tools may assist with tasks such as reviewing or prioritizing applications, but hiring decisions are made by our people. More information is available in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. If you have questions about how we hire or would prefer not to have your application supported by these tools, you can opt out at any part of our process.
 

🌈 Inclusivity matters

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet 100% of the criteria. We're committed to diverse perspectives, inclusive hiring and sharing your transferrable skills. To fulfil this role, you must hold valid right to work in the USA.

Qualified candidates can expect a compensation range of:
💰 $185,000 – $195,000 or more, depending on experience.

Competitive and market‑aligned, with additional incentive opportunities.

• Competitive base salary
• Annual performance bonus
• Equity participation
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company contribution
• Generous paid time off and company holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Learning & development budget
• Employee wellbeing initiatives

There's extensive room for a talented individual to grow at pace — whether that's advancing quickly in this role or exploring one of the many opportunities across our global organization. You'll have access to our internal development hub designed to accelerate your skills and stretch your potential. Alongside specialist Learning & Development trainers, you'll also tap into AI powered tools, "born in the cloud" mentors, and cross continent collaboration that broaden your perspective and sharpen your expertise. We'll give you the space, trust, and the right projects to help you thrive — and full visibility of what it takes to reach your next level.
 

🌐 About Pax8

Our mission is to build the managed intelligence marketplace and empower small businesses to do more with smarter technology. We are a fast-growing, dynamic, and high-energy organisation with a start-up feel, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is also important to us, and at Pax8, it's business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative, and unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best! We Elev8 each other. We Advoc8 for our partners. We Innov8 continuously. We Celebr8 life.
 

🔍 Background checks

As part of our hiring process, we are required to undertake pre-employment checks on all candidates that are successful in their application with Pax8. As part of these checks Pax8 will request ID verification, reference requests and qualification checks (additional checks may be completed for certain countries, such as criminal and financial). All checks are completed by our third-party provider, First Advantage. Once checks have been completed all candidates will receive a copy for their records.
 

⚖️ Equal opportunities

Pax8 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the country you have applied for. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with local best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes. Privacy notice: https://www.pax8.com/en-us/terms/job-applicant-privacy-notice/

At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust‑based relationships — starting with how we hire.

To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change.
By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you’re applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we’re excited to meet you. 

Perks:

Why Join Pax8?

Because here, success isn't just about numbers—it’s about impact.
It’s about being part of a team that thinks bigger, empowers each other, and never loses sight of why we do what we do: to make the cloud easier, more accessible, and more meaningful.

At Pax8 we believe that your Total Rewards should include a benefits package that shows how much we value our greatest assets. All FTE Pax8 people enjoy the following benefits:

• Non-Commissioned Bonus Plans or Variable Commission

• 401(k) plan with employer match

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Employee Assistance Program

• Employer Paid Short & Long Term Disability, Life and AD&D Insurance

• Flexible, Open Vacation

• Paid Sick Time Off

• Extended Leave for Life events

• RTD Eco Pass (For local Colorado Employees)

• Career Development Programs

• Stock Option Eligibility

• Employee-led Resource Groups

Please take a moment to review our Proprietary Rights and Non-Competition Agreement — this document outlines important information about your rights and responsibilities if you join our team.

Pax8 is an EEOC Employer.

Equal Opportunities

Pax8 is an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the country the role is based in. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with Data Privacy best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes.

Job Applicant Privacy Notice