Senior Legal Counsel Dublin, Ireland Senior Legal Counsel
Sitecore
Legal
Dublin, Ireland
Posted on Feb 5, 2026
Description
About Us:
At Sitecore, our mission is to simplify how brands reach, engage, and serve people by delivering intelligent, personalised digital experiences that connect the world. We empower the world’s most iconic brands to build lifelong relationships with their customers—seamlessly, smartly, and at scale.
As the leading provider of agentic digital experience software, Sitecore brings together content, commerce, and data into one composable platform that enables brands to deliver millions of meaningful, adaptive experiences every day. Trusted by global leaders such as American Express, Porsche, Starbucks, and L’Oréal, Sitecore helps brands transform engagement through experiences that are not only personalised but predictive and dynamic.
Our foundation is our people—a diverse, passionate, and collaborative global team spanning over 25 countries. We believe that every experience matters, and that belief starts with how we work together. Our values guide how we lead, innovate, and connect. They are the behaviours that bring our mission and vision to life, every day, in every interaction.
As we continue to evolve, we are actively cultivating AI skills across our teams to unlock new levels of creativity, efficiency, and insight. From engineering to customer experience, AI capabilities are becoming integral to how we design, build, and deliver the next generation of digital experiences.
Learn more at Sitecore.com.
About the Role:
As Senior Legal Counsel, you will support Sitecore’s commercial and compliance operations across EMEA sales regions. You will lead the drafting and negotiation of customer-facing contracts—including outbound licenses, SaaS/cloud agreements, and service offerings—and support vendor and supplier agreements. You will also contribute to broader compliance and corporate initiatives. You will also negotiate Data Processing Agreements as part of standard SaaS contracting, working closely with the Data Protection legal team on escalated issues.
This role requires a strategic, business-minded attorney who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and is comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders across geographies.
What You’ll Do:
- Draft and negotiate commercial contracts, primarily software licensing and SaaS/cloud agreements, including risk assessment and internal approvals
- Negotiate Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) and related privacy terms as part of standard contracting workflows, with support from DP legal as needed
- Serve as the primary legal interface for the sales organization, offering strategic guidance and ensuring process compliance, answering first level of privacy and data protection queries
- Maintain and evolve contract templates, playbooks, and clause libraries
- Deliver internal training on legal policies and processes
- Collaborate with Finance, Privacy and Product teams to implement and oversee legal compliance programs
- Support general corporate matters and special projects as needed
- Support to the product team
What You Need to Succeed:
- Minimum 7–8 years of post-qualification experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal department
- Law degree and license to practice law
- Proven expertise in SaaS/cloud contracts, intellectual property rights, and software licensing
- Demonstrated ability to advise on global privacy and data protection frameworks and to negotiate DPAs, SCCs, and related contract terms in SaaS environments
- Ability to translate business needs into pragmatic legal solutions with clear, concise drafting
- Comfortable interacting with senior management and cross-functional teams
- Strong business acumen and ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines
- Familiarity with AI-related legal issues and tools
Additional Skills That Could Set You Apart:
- Experience supporting Sales teams in a legal capacity, preferably at software providers companies
- Good understanding of software development and technologies, eagerness to learn Sitecore’s products and services
- Experience working with stakeholders across multiple geographies
- Fluency in English; additional languages are a plus
Why You Should Click ‘Apply’:
- Sales and Customer Success are the key to our success! We are tapping into an exciting $30B market opportunity that is still very much in its infancy and feel it’s never been a better time to join Sitecore as we look to grow by 30% YoY. Growth for us means growth for you and your career.
- Great team and company culture! You can find out more about our company culture in the Sales and Customer Success team and our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, on our YouTube Channel. Thanks to the work of every employee globally, Sitecore has been recognised for award-winning Culture by Comparably.
Sitecore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity without unlawful regard to race, colour, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other local legally protected characteristic.