Director, Legal - US Commercial
About the Role
At Sonar in the Computer Software space, The industry standard for code verification, trusted by 75% of Fortune 100..
Who is Sonar?
Sonar enables organizations to ship agentic code with confidence. Code creation is abundant, but confidence is scarce. Our core platform, SonarQube, verifies over 750 billion lines of code every day, delivering agentic verification and governance for all code. Trusted by more than 7 million developers and 75% of the Fortune 100, including teams at Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Sonar, Sonar enables organizations to reduce outages, improve security, and lower the cost and risk of agentic software development. Founded in Geneva and now headquartered in Austin, Texas, Sonar has a global team working across offices and hubs, including Silicon Valley, London, Bochum, Barcelona, Singapore, Tokyo, and the Washington, D.C. area. At Sonar, we’re enabling enterprises to build agentic software factories that can move quickly while maintaining the control, consistency and evidence required to ship with confidence. The Impact You Can Have
We are looking for an exceptional, dynamic, and vision-driven legal leader to manage and scale our US Commercial Legal team. As Director of Legal, you will serve as a strategic partner to our business, balancing risk mitigation with high-growth revenue enablement. Reporting directly to the Deputy General Counsel (DGC), you will lead, mentor, and empower a team of commercial legal professionals responsible for driving all US commercial contracting initiatives, including enterprise sales, channel partnerships, and vendor procurement.
We are seeking a proactive, solution-oriented leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, excels at cross-functional leadership, and is passionate about building scalable, technology-driven legal operations.
How You Will Make an Impact
Lead & Mentor the Team: Manage, mentor, and grow the US commercial legal team. Establish team goals, manage workload allocation, and foster a high-performance, collaborative culture focused on career development and operational excellence.
Drive Strategic Commercial Matters: Oversee and independently negotiate high-value, highly complex commercial transactions across enterprise sales, channel partnerships, and strategic vendor agreements.
Partner Cross-Functionally: Drive alignment across key Sonar leaders and key business functions - including Sales leadership, Procurement, Finance, IT/Security and Product, to unlock revenue and build business-enabling processes.
Pioneer Operations & Scale: Lead the strategic development and scaling of our contracting infrastructure. Optimize legal tech tools (including CLM systems and generative AI drafting tools) to streamline workflows, shorten deal cycles, and remove operational blockers.
Risk Management & Executive Advisory: Serve as a trusted legal advisor to executive stakeholders on key contract terms, risk profiles, regulatory shifts, and negotiation strategies.
Support Sonar Growth Initiatives: Address emergent legal issues in a high-growth environment, partnering with specialized legal functions on product legal counsel, data privacy, and global expansion strategies.
The Qualities You Will Bring
Proven Legal Leadership: J.D. and active Bar admission with 10+ years of commercial and technology legal experience (including SaaS and software negotiations). Prior experience directly managing and leading team members is required.
In-House Expertise: Significant in-house experience at a high-growth international technology or software company.
Strategic Influence & Executive Presence: Exceptional communication skills with a track record of building trusted relationships with senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and enterprise customers.
Domain Mastery: Deep domain knowledge of complex SaaS, software licensing, intellectual property, data protection/privacy, and enterprise revenue recognition principles.
Agility & Ownership: Ability to navigate ambiguity, prioritize high-impact initiatives, and manage competing demands in a dynamic environment while maintaining strategic clarity.
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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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