Posted 17 June, 2026
Lead Counsel - Commercial
HubSpot
Dublin, Ireland
Full Time
Reference: 102_699504_8009619
POS-32582
HubSpot is looking for a Lead Counsel to join the Commercial Legal Team to provide a key support role to our EMEA Sales Teams.
In this role, you'll get to:
- Provide first-line client-centric legal support to our Sales teams on privacy, commercial and legal issues.
- Review and negotiate commercial agreements, which may include SaaS agreements, data processing agreements, consulting agreements, non-disclosure agreements, master services agreements, and statements of work.
- Work with other various business teams on a variety of legal processes as needed.
- Partner closely with Sales stakeholders, particularly in DACH, to understand the business objectives and hurdles, and drive strategic improvements.
- Collaborate with other legal and compliance practice groups to accelerate and unlock growth for HubSpot with a customer-centric mindset.
We are looking for people who:
- Are qualified to practice law in Ireland and are fluent German speaker.
- Have a minimum of 5+ years of relevant in-house legal experience.
- Have significant experience reviewing commercial contracts and running an independent negotiation process (Enterprise SaaS experience a plus) in DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland).
- Have excellent legal drafting skills.
- Have a strong foundation in data protection and EU privacy law.
- Are enthusiastic about partnering cross functionally with business stakeholders to to understand strategic goals, and make informed recommendations to achieve business objectives (Experience supporting Sales teams a plus).
- Are able to make decisions and provide advice/explain the rationale for the decision to curious and empowered teams.
- Are able to work efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced and transparent environment.
- Integrate technology and use/build AI in their daily practice to work smarter.
- Appreciate the customer perspective and 'solve for the customer' mentality.
- Develop strong relationships based on trust with team members.
- Possess strong communication skills, especially via an internal wiki, Slack and Zoom (it's how we communicate).
- Are self-driven and solution-oriented.
- Are passionate about the values in the HubSpot Culture Code.