Most Loved Workplace® Certified JobSenior Commercial Counsel
Most Loved Workplace® Certified JobAbout the Role
At Sonar, a Most Loved Workplace® certified employer in the Computer Software space, The industry standard for code verification, trusted by 75% of Fortune 100..
Who is Sonar? Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is trusted by +7M developers worldwide, including teams Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, and T-Mobile. We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with Sonar, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily. We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly. And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals. At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations. Why You Should Apply: At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties. We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster. The Impact You Will Have: We are looking for an exceptional and dynamic legal professional who can balance protecting Sonar with supercharging our growing global business. As a key member on the commercial squad of our legal team, you will drive initiatives and manage critical matters relating to commercial contracting. This may include managing contract reviews and negotiations in support of our global procurement needs, our Asia-Pacific-Japan sales region, our Europe-Middle East-Africa sales region, and channel partner network, depending on your interest and experience. We are seeking a proactive, solution-oriented thinker who is ready to take ownership and elevate the team's performance. Reporting line and title will depend on the candidate, as we are open to a range of seniority levels.
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Systemic Collaboration
we have a clear vision and lead with transparency, anchored in our open source roots and commitment to our community. At our core, our mission is to improve the quality and security of all code while delivering an improved developer experience. As we grow, we will continue to drive towards this goal and solve the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code, and will continue to keep part of our solution open source and deliver great value through it.
Positive Vision for the Future
we are a mission-oriented company. At Sonar, we are driven by a deep belief in our people, a commitment to excellence, and an unwavering dedication to delivery. We operate as a united group where our collective success is the sum of each individual's contributions. Sonar culture is driven by the values of CODE: Committed, Obsessed, Deliberate & Effective. This mindset reflects our culture of creativity, collaboration, and pride in the work we do.
Alignment of Values
encouraging a culture that believes in the strength of people collaborating together and being empowered, which fosters happiness and performance at work.
Respect
recognizing that we are not just a team of experts in our own areas, but that we are Smarter Together (core value). We’re comfortable with creating and resolving problems collectively and take ownership of our own words to stimulate collaboration through constructive discussion. Feedback is at the heart of everything we do at Sonar, and it’s rooted in our co-responsibility principle and delivery model.
Killer Outcomes
practicing one of our core values of “Smarter Together”. We believe that no one is as smart as all of us working as one. We embrace the power of collective intelligence and diversity because we see it as a strength. We trust each other, listen first, communicate frankly, and deliver candid feedback. We consider every team member co-responsible for decisions and relations with others. We always try to have high-quality, equal relationships regardless of tenure, age, origin, and position. This collective energy allows us to reach a level of idea generation, problem-solving, and decision-making.
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