Head of Commercial Legal

About this role

• As Head of Commercial Legal, you will lead and scale Notion’s commercial legal function, owning the strategy, team, and execution for all commercial legal matters globally
• You will manage a team of commercial counsel across multiple regions and serve as the senior legal advisor to our go-to-market functions, including Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing
• This role demands a builder and player-coach who can operate at the strategic level while staying close to deals
• You will report to the General Counsel and serve as a key member of the Legal leadership team
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of commercial counsel spanning the Americas, EMEA, and APAC
• Set the standard for how commercial legal work is done: speed, quality, business orientation, and use of AI tools to multiply output
• Recruit and develop attorneys who combine deep transactional expertise with business proximity, learning velocity, and a bias to action
• Foster a team culture of ownership, craft, low-ego collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Be a true player-coach: develop and elevate your team while stepping in personally to execute on deals and projects when the moment calls for it. Everyone on this team rolls up their sleeves
• Serve as the senior commercial legal advisor on Notion’s most complex and strategic customer transactions, including enterprise SaaS and AI agreements, multi-year deals, and global deployments
• Act as a trusted deal partner to Sales leadership, coaching account teams and commercial counsel on negotiation strategy, risk calibration, and creative deal structuring
• Drive procurement and vendor-side legal support, including negotiation of technology, professional services, and marketing vendor agreements
• Lead quarter-end execution with composure and focus, managing high deal volumes without losing sight of strategic priorities
• Support channel, reseller, and strategic partnership programs as part of the core commercial legal portfolio
• Own commercial legal’s ...