Senior Counsel

NetBox Labs is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Counsel to join our growing legal team. This is a foundational hire that will support and scale the company’s commercial operations while contributing meaningfully to broader corporate legal initiatives.

You’ll partner closely with our Chief Operating Officer, Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Finance teams to manage a wide range of commercial legal matters, particularly customer and vendor contracting. You’ll also have opportunities to shape and influence legal approaches across employment law, intellectual property, corporate governance, equity, fundraising, and M&A.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-growth, mission-driven company at the Series B stage, help establish scalable legal processes, and provide strategic guidance as we continue to expand globally.

Commercial Contracts:

• Lead the drafting, negotiation, and execution of customer agreements (SaaS, on-premise licensing, DPAs, security exhibits, and MSAs), vendor agreements, NDAs, and partner/reseller contracts.

• Develop scalable playbooks, fallback positions, and templates for standard agreements.

• Collaborate with GTM teams to accelerate sales cycles while balancing risk and compliance.

Corporate & Strategic:

• Provide support on general corporate matters, including board governance, legal entity management, and international expansion.

• Partner with COO and outside counsel on equity, financings, and fundraising events (e.g., convertible notes, preferred rounds, secondary transactions).

• Advise on M&A activity, due diligence, and integration planning.

IP & Employment:

• Partner with COO and HR to review employment policies, offer letters, and global hiring practices.

• Manage IP portfolio, including trademarks, copyright, and open source licensing.

• Provide guidance on internal policies, handbooks, and compliance with applicable laws (e.g., export control, data privacy).

Legal Operations & Strategy:

• Build foundational processes for contract lifecycle management.

• Monitor regulatory changes and risk exposure; ensure NetBox Labs remains in compliance.

• Serve as a cross-functional legal advisor to executives and team leads across the business.

• JD from an accredited U.S. law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.

• 10+ years of relevant experience, including at a top-tier law firm and/or fast-growing technology company.

• Significant experience with commercial technology transactions (especially SaaS and software licensing).

• Strong familiarity with corporate law, employment law, IP, data protection, and open-source licensing.

• Excellent drafting and negotiation skills, with sound judgment and business acumen.

• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.

• Experience supporting a B2B SaaS company preferred.

• We own and solve problems with high attention to detail.

• Our open source contributors, users, customers & team are all part of our community. When our community wins, we win.

• We prioritize simplicity and think twice before adding complexity

• Clear communication helps keep our team aligned and collaborating smoothly.

NetBox Labs helps companies build and manage complex networks. We help customers accelerate network automation by delivering open, composable products and supporting the network automation community.

NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of open source NetBox, the world’s most popular network source of truth, and Orb, the next-generation open source network observability platform. Our products include NetBox Enterprise, a fully supported self-managed NetBox with advanced features, and NetBox Cloud, a secure, scalable, and reliable SaaS edition of NetBox.

NetBox powers thousands of companies, and NetBox Labs is backed by investment from Notable Capital (formerly GGV), Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, Flybridge, IBM, Salesforce Ventures, and Mango Capital.