Commercial Counsel

🏢 Yext · 📍 New York, NY 💰 $111,600 - $111,600 / yr

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the enterprise agentic marketing platform. Built on the world's most comprehensive structured data platform for local businesses, Yext gives brands and their partners the visibility intelligence to win every moment of discovery – across AI and traditional search. Yext's API-first architecture connects structured data to APIs, MCP servers, and generative interfaces, so partners and developers can build purpose-built experiences on the same infrastructure powering Yext's own products. Thousands of brands and digital marketing partners in financial services, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and food rely on Yext to manage, measure, and optimize visibility at scale. For more information, visit yext.com.

Yext is seeking a dedicated and business-oriented Commercial Counsel to join its Legal team! In this position, you will partner with our Enterprise, Mid-Market and Partner (indirect) sales teams in handling, negotiating and implementing customer deals and work with various business lines in reviewing and negotiating vendor/procurement transactions. This position can be based in the New York (preferred) or Washington D.C. areas with a flexible/hybrid work arrangement.

What You'll Do

Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements – primarily SaaS subscription agreements – across our Enterprise, Mid-Market and Partner (indirect) businesses
Improving and maintaining our standard commercial agreements, contract negotiation playbooks and legal processes to help us scale globally
Proactively working with internal clients to improve and scale all aspects of the sales contract negotiation process
Conducting periodic employee trainings on all of the above

What You Have

3-5 years corporate and/or commercial experience at a leading law firm, in-house, or a combination of the two
Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills; prior experience with commercial agreements required, experience with SaaS, content distribution and general commercial agreements within the technology industry strongly preferred
Experience working through data privacy (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, etc.) and security issues in SaaS/commercial transactions
Flexibility and eagerness to work hard in fast-pace

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Yext Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Search technology depth, knowledge graph architecture, and enterprise SaaS scalability across global digital footprints.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Shallow understanding of modern search, indexing, or semantic graph relationships.
2. Poor cross-functional alignment between engineering, product, and enterprise go-to-market teams.
3. Inability to handle massive scale or multi-region data consistency challenges.

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I scale enterprise search and knowledge graph systems that turn fragmented data into precise, authoritative digital answers.

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