About the role
About CoLab At CoLab, we want to help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner.
CoLab is a cloud based platform for engineering design review. We make it easy for subject matter experts (SMEs) across your business to access, evaluate, and comment on 2D drawings and 3D models. Our built-in AI peer checker, AutoReview, scans designs for common errors or non-compliance with your standards and guidelines. AutoReview creates markups and comments on your files, in context – just like a human checker.
With CoLab, human SMEs and AI work together to help you make better decisions and improve designs faster. We automatically capture knowledge from across your global business that would otherwise be buried in emails, spreadsheets, slide decks, and unknown locations in Sharepoint or PLM. Then, we make sure every lesson learned and every design guideline is applied exactly when it matters.
Companies like Johnson Controls, Komatsu, Schaeffler, and Polaris have launched products 40% faster, cut BOM costs by 50%, and reduced quality escapes by 15% in 1 year.
About the Role You'll be the first line of legal support for CoLab's go-to-market engine—reviewing NDAs, negotiating SaaS contracts, and partnering closely with Sales and Security to keep deals moving and data protected.
This is a hands-on role where you'll own both the legal work and the operational systems that drive it. That means helping build scalable contract workflows, and taking pride in making sure nothing slips through the cracks.
Our Ideal Candidate You're a commercially minded lawyer who wants to be close to the business—not just advising from the sidelines. You have experience negotiating SaaS contracts with customers of all sizes, including large enterprise customers, deep knowledge of data privacy, and get energized by solving for speed and precision.
You bring the same level of care to helping us build and update our processes and workflows as you do redlining a DPA. You understand that processes are part of the product—and you don't consider operational rigor to be a chore.
You'll thrive here if you:
- Are a strong communicator who can hold your own with customers, Sales and Security—without ego and with respect
- Primarily see yourself as a partner to Sales and Security
- Are comfortable thinking out of the box: challenging assumptions, doing things differently and taking qualified risks
- Are energized by a fast-moving environment where you'll be left to own your work
- Curious and able to keep up with our rapidly changing and innovative technology
What you'll do:
- Review and negotiate NDAs
- Engage in and manage SaaS commercial contract negotiations, including DPAs
- Lead the intake, tracking, and reporting of legal agreements
- Lead and improve contract operations: help design a system for managing negotiated contracts at scale
- Partner closely with Sales and Security on contract reviews and data protection terms
- Assist General Counsel with other legal work as required
- Flag and escalate legal or commercial risks to the General Counsel as needed
Who you are:
- 3–7 years of legal experience (ideally including in-house experience)
- SaaS contract negotiation experience with customers is essential
- Familiarity with data privacy laws across US, Canada, and Europe (GDPR, PIPEDA, etc.)
- Strong attention to detail and follow-through—especially on the operational side
- Comfortable using legal-focused software applications to track and manage contract activity and negotiations
- Experience in other areas of law (particularly governance, employment, intellectual property) is useful
Equity Note Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to help us break that statistic and apply even if you don't meet every single qualification—your potential is what matters most to us.
About CoLab Software
Your most critical product decisions are made everyday in design reviews.
But as products get more complex and teams become larger and more specialized, the design review process looks the same as it did 10-20 years ago.
So what happens?
-43% of design feedback is never documented or addressed -87% of engineering leaders say it takes hours or days to trace the rationale behind a single design decision -90% of companies have product launch delays due to late-stage design changes.
These problems won’t be solved by more meetings, better PLM workflows or increased pressure to keep slide decks and spreadsheets up-to-date. These are problems that require a completely new way for engineering teams to work together.
CoLab is a cloud based platform purpose built for fast, effective design review. Using CoLab, multiple engineers, designers, and other stakeholders can review designs together and build off one another's feedback.
CoLab makes it easy to review the right data (including CAD) with all the right people, capture useful feedback, and track issues through to action. CoLab pulls together design discussions previously lost in emails, spreadsheets, and notebooks into a single platform that integrates back into PLM. We call it a Design Engagement System.
About the role
About CoLab At CoLab, we want to help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner.
CoLab is a cloud based platform for engineering design review. We make it easy for subject matter experts (SMEs) across your business to access, evaluate, and comment on 2D drawings and 3D models. Our built-in AI peer checker, AutoReview, scans designs for common errors or non-compliance with your standards and guidelines. AutoReview creates markups and comments on your files, in context – just like a human checker.
With CoLab, human SMEs and AI work together to help you make better decisions and improve designs faster. We automatically capture knowledge from across your global business that would otherwise be buried in emails, spreadsheets, slide decks, and unknown locations in Sharepoint or PLM. Then, we make sure every lesson learned and every design guideline is applied exactly when it matters.
Companies like Johnson Controls, Komatsu, Schaeffler, and Polaris have launched products 40% faster, cut BOM costs by 50%, and reduced quality escapes by 15% in 1 year.
About the Role You'll be the first line of legal support for CoLab's go-to-market engine—reviewing NDAs, negotiating SaaS contracts, and partnering closely with Sales and Security to keep deals moving and data protected.
This is a hands-on role where you'll own both the legal work and the operational systems that drive it. That means helping build scalable contract workflows, and taking pride in making sure nothing slips through the cracks.
Our Ideal Candidate You're a commercially minded lawyer who wants to be close to the business—not just advising from the sidelines. You have experience negotiating SaaS contracts with customers of all sizes, including large enterprise customers, deep knowledge of data privacy, and get energized by solving for speed and precision.
You bring the same level of care to helping us build and update our processes and workflows as you do redlining a DPA. You understand that processes are part of the product—and you don't consider operational rigor to be a chore.
You'll thrive here if you:
- Are a strong communicator who can hold your own with customers, Sales and Security—without ego and with respect
- Primarily see yourself as a partner to Sales and Security
- Are comfortable thinking out of the box: challenging assumptions, doing things differently and taking qualified risks
- Are energized by a fast-moving environment where you'll be left to own your work
- Curious and able to keep up with our rapidly changing and innovative technology
What you'll do:
- Review and negotiate NDAs
- Engage in and manage SaaS commercial contract negotiations, including DPAs
- Lead the intake, tracking, and reporting of legal agreements
- Lead and improve contract operations: help design a system for managing negotiated contracts at scale
- Partner closely with Sales and Security on contract reviews and data protection terms
- Assist General Counsel with other legal work as required
- Flag and escalate legal or commercial risks to the General Counsel as needed
Who you are:
- 3–7 years of legal experience (ideally including in-house experience)
- SaaS contract negotiation experience with customers is essential
- Familiarity with data privacy laws across US, Canada, and Europe (GDPR, PIPEDA, etc.)
- Strong attention to detail and follow-through—especially on the operational side
- Comfortable using legal-focused software applications to track and manage contract activity and negotiations
- Experience in other areas of law (particularly governance, employment, intellectual property) is useful
Equity Note Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to help us break that statistic and apply even if you don't meet every single qualification—your potential is what matters most to us.
About CoLab Software
Your most critical product decisions are made everyday in design reviews.
But as products get more complex and teams become larger and more specialized, the design review process looks the same as it did 10-20 years ago.
So what happens?
-43% of design feedback is never documented or addressed -87% of engineering leaders say it takes hours or days to trace the rationale behind a single design decision -90% of companies have product launch delays due to late-stage design changes.
These problems won’t be solved by more meetings, better PLM workflows or increased pressure to keep slide decks and spreadsheets up-to-date. These are problems that require a completely new way for engineering teams to work together.
CoLab is a cloud based platform purpose built for fast, effective design review. Using CoLab, multiple engineers, designers, and other stakeholders can review designs together and build off one another's feedback.
CoLab makes it easy to review the right data (including CAD) with all the right people, capture useful feedback, and track issues through to action. CoLab pulls together design discussions previously lost in emails, spreadsheets, and notebooks into a single platform that integrates back into PLM. We call it a Design Engagement System.