Director & Assistant General Counsel, Commercial

The Commercial Legal Team at Pinterest negotiates Pinterest’s inbound and supplier agreements. This Director & Assistant General Counsel will lead a team of legal professionals supporting high-volume complex commercial and technology transactions, and will manage relationships with cross-functional partners including Engineering, Security, Privacy, Finance, Procurement, and IT. The role supports Pinterest’s cloud strategy across multiple platforms and helps the business scale its technology and infrastructure partnerships.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of legal professionals supporting complex commercial and technology transactions.
• Manage hiring, onboarding, performance, development, and resourcing for the team.
• Set team priorities and operating rhythms to optimize productivity, quality, stakeholder support, and career development.
• Act as an escalation point for complex, contentious, and unforeseen issues, making sound decisions in ambiguous or time-sensitive situations.
• Guide negotiation strategy and legal risk assessment for SaaS, AI, cloud, infrastructure, data processing, professional services, and other supplier agreements.
• Partner with Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Privacy, Finance, Procurement, and IT stakeholders to support strategic initiatives and critical transactions.
• Build scalable playbooks, templates, workflows, guidance, and decision frameworks.
• Use metrics, milestones, and feedback loops to drive accountability and improve execution.
• Build team capability through coaching, succession planning, exposure, and stretch opportunities.
• Stay current with cloud contracting trends, emerging licensing and consumption models, and industry best practices.

• JD with minimum 10 years of experience in a legal environment, with significant experience negotiating complex SaaS, cloud services, technology infrastructure, and commercial transactions.
• Minimum 2 years of in-house experience at a technology company preferred.
• Strong people management experience, including coaching, performance management, development, and workforce planning.
• Deep experience negotiating cloud compute, SaaS, hosting, data processing, professional services, and other technology supplier agreements.
• Comfort advising on data privacy, data security, AI, and general commercial risk.
• Strong judgment and comfort making risk-based decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to drive results through others, manage escalations, and improve team operations.
• Track record of building team capability, holding high standards, and creating an inclusive, accountable environment.

Base salary range: $210,161—$432,684 USD. The position is also eligible for equity.

This role is remote within the US, with an in-office requirement for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6 months. The role can be situated anywhere in the country. This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

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