How you’ll demonstrate Ownership

As a strategic Senior Commercial Counsel and Company Secretary, you will be the engine room of our deal desk and the guardian of our corporate integrity.While this is a Global Role assisting our distributed teams in Norway, India, and beyond, your primary theater of operations will be Europe and the Middle East (EMEA). You will lead high-stakes negotiations while maturing our governance frameworks as we prepare for the public markets.

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