Legal Counsel - CONTRACT

Job Description:

Rakuten International is a division of Rakuten Group, Inc., a Japanese global technology leader in services that empower individuals, communities, businesses and society. Headquartered in San Mateo, California with more than 4,000 employees worldwide, the Rakuten International business portfolio includes market leaders in e-commerce, digital marketing, advertising, communications and entertainment. We create products and services that provide exceptional value by aligning members and the businesses that want to engage them in a shared community.

Rakuten is a leading shopping platform that offers Cash Back on purchases from all your favorite brands. By partnering with thousands of brands in apparel, health and beauty, dining, grocery, travel, on-demand services, subscription boxes and more, Rakuten helps members save and get more on everyday purchases. Since its founding in 1999, Rakuten has become the largest and most rewarding shopping experience, and its members have earned $4.6 billion in Cash Back just for shopping through Rakuten. For more information, visit Rakuten.com.

Job Summary:

Rakuten Rewards is a seeking a temporary Contract Attorney to support contract review and other legal projects. This role will primarily support the commercial contract function, providing review of procurement contracts, brand and marketing, and product development. This position can be fully remote, fully in office (in San Mateo, CA) or a hybrid of the two.

Key Responsibilities:

• Draft, review, and revise various procurement-side agreements, including SaaS Agreements, Technology License Agreements, NDA's, DPA's, Service Agreements, Independent Contractor Agreements, and Creative Vendor Agreements.
• Draft, review, and revise various revenue-side agreements, including advertising placement and campaign insertion orders.
• Update or create legal policies, contract playbooks, processes, and standard operating procedures by collecting requirements from various legal stakeholders.
• Review, clean up, and close out contract lifecycle management workflows.
• Update and improve templates and clause libraries.
• Review and interpret contracts/terms to create legal summaries in support of diligence projects.
• Web and legal research to inform compliance programs and to educate the department on evolving regulations, policies, and standards affecting the business.

Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Strong contract drafting and redlining skills.
• Experience using playbooks and legal drafting and review standards to review and negotiating commercial agreements.
• Ability to work closely with members of the legal department to translate feedback into contract redlines and responses.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage projects from initial idea phases to the final deliverable.
• A diligent, independent worker with a bias towards action and moving projects and deliverables forward.
• Experience in technology procurement and advertising in the eCommerce or tech industry
• Familiarity with contract lifecycle management systems (e.g., Legisway, Docusign, etc.)
• Working privacy knowledge of US privacy laws

Minimum Requirements:

• J.D. with license to practice law, ideally California licensed.
• 4+ years of relevant legal experience (may be a combination of in-house and law firm).

At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the hourly rate for this role will be between $80.00-$130.00 per hr.

Five Principles for Success
Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.

Always improve, Always Advance - Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen
Passionately Professional - Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best
Hypothesize - Practice - Validate - Shikumika - Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory
Maximize Customer Satisfaction - The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! - Always be conscious of time - take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team

Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

Client-provided location(s): San Mateo, CA

Job ID: Rakuten-RakutenRewards-1028563

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-09-12T20:19:35