What You’ll Do Commercial Negotiation & Revenue Enablement

• Adopt a solution-oriented approach to lead negotiations for complex, multi-year B2B global SaaS agreements, ensuring legal acts as a business enabler rather than a bottleneck.
• Provide expert legal support to the wider global team, ensuring consistency in our global commercial playbooks
• Partner with Sales leadership to streamline customer assurance processes, facilitating rapid deal closure and supporting exponential revenue growth

Corporate Governance & Company Secretary

• Oversee the corporate governance framework to ensure robust decision-making, transparency, and accountability across all global entities.
• Organize Board and Audit Committee meetings, ensuring all agendas, minutes, and resolutions are precisely recorded and archived.
• Maintain the official Shareholders' Register and manage the UBO Register filings with the KVK.
• Ensure timely filing of Annual Financial Statements and corporate changes with the KVK (Chamber of Commerce).

Digital Innovation & Scalability

• Champion the use of digital tools to modernize how traditional compliance is handled. Move away from manual, headcount-heavy processes by implementing automation and technology-driven solutions that allow the function to scale efficiently with the business.

Commercial Enablement & Agility

• Adopt a solution-oriented approach that balances risk mitigation with speed. Ensure Legal acts as a business enabler rather than a bottleneck, facilitating rapid deal closure and supporting revenue growth.
• Partner with Sales leadership to streamline customer assurance processes, ensuring that our compliance posture helps—rather than hinders—commercial velocity.

The Impact you bring to Cognite

• find solutions.
• You power your team's success, consistently delivering high-quality work and collaborating with others to help them succeed..
• You tackle challenges head-on, viewing every setback as a chance to learn and adapt your approach.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in corporate legal or commercial counsel roles, with a significant portion in a senior leadership capacity.
• J.D or Master of Laws (LL.M.)
• Proven experience in the SaaS/Software technology sector.
• Demonstrated experience using technology and automation to scale legal functions without relying solely on increasing headcount.
• Understanding of the Dutch BV structure, Civil Transactions Law, and mandatory filing timelines.
• Ability to work independently and efficiently, often with tight deadlines, with understanding of the legal in-house role.to travel as needed for client engagements.

Preferred Experience

• Demonstrated success working with distributed teams across different time zones and cultures.
• Fluent in Dutch and English

Equal Opportunity Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.