·       Increased sales and procurement efficiency by leveraging deep experience to provide rapid and accurate turnover of commercial, privacy and vendor agreements including SaaS, MSAs, SOWs, DPAs, BAAs, Security Agreements, Software, and Professional Services.

·       Increased legal department efficiency and knowledge by advising, providing guidance, and developing policies and processes on a broad range of commercial, privacy, security, regulatory and legal compliance issues including Privacy Program development including PIAs and policies.

·       Increased new sales by actively supporting product teams in Go-To-Market initiatives, marketing and product development activities including IP, privacy, compliance and marketing support.

·       Improved company security posture and compliance by advising sales and product teams on ISO 27001, NIST 800-53 Framework and CIS Controls allowing for pro-active implementation.

·       Greatly reduced turnaround time for inbound contracts bringing forward vehicle production timeline and eliminated contract backlog by efficiently negotiating direct and indirect IT and technology contracts related to Rivian vehicles, including all IP and Open Source agreements. 

·       Increased cross-vertical communication and cooperation counseling business and product teams on privacy including CCPA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and PIPEDA and provided actionable advice to ensure compliance and success of business objectives.

·       Designed privacy program including customer privacy portal, Rivian.com privacy notice, internal privacy policy, privacy program plan, data mapping, and privacy impact assessments. 

·       Built and managed a world-class team of six commercial attorneys globally distributed through Americas, APAC and EMEA supporting sales, partners, go-to-market teams, product, engineering, finance and marketing teams. 

·       Increased sales thruput and decreased lead-to-cash times by serving as the point of escalation, and head counsel for transactional issues for enterprise software licensing, cloud computing / SaaS, MSAs, professional services and related agreements in both the commercial and public-sector spaces including FARS/DFARS/ITAR.

·       Decreased legal review times and increased team efficiency by leading projects with business partners to identify, design, and implement process improvements to drive deal velocity and scale enabling 50% year over year growth.