Legal Counsel, Commercial

Fonoa is the Tax Operating System for autonomous tax. AI that tracks every rule, acts on every obligation, and proves every decision, built on modular infrastructure.

Fonoa’s modules cover the full indirect tax lifecycle: tax ID validation, real-time tax determination, e-invoicing, and returns. All on one shared data model and integration, with one audit trail. Each added capability makes the others stronger.

Agents monitor obligations, populate returns, catch anomalies and assemble audit packs in seconds. The system does the work. Humans make the calls. That’s autonomous tax.

We operate across 120+ countries, with clients going live in weeks, if not days.

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Role description:

We are looking for an experienced, service-oriented and practical Commercial Counsel to join our growing legal team. This role will focus on software licensing, and the candidate should have a track record of supporting sales and channel/partner teams in the software/SaaS business. Candidates should be ready to dive and manage all aspects of commercial activity – negotiating and closing complex customer, channel, and business development agreements. Our legal team works across Customer Contracting, Vendor Contracting, Data Privacy, Investor Relations, Corporate Law, and Employment Law, touching every corner of our business. This role will also help support all legal functions within a fast-paced and rapidly growing technology company.

Due to Fonoa's continued success and growth, we are now looking to hire a savvy Commercial Counsel who is a keen negotiator and can help guide us on this next leg of growth. The commercial counsel will report directly to Fonoa’s General Counsel and work alongside our commercial teams, whose customers are predominantly enterprise-level technology organisations.

What you will do:

- Draft and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts, such as SaaS or other soft...