Description:
About This Position:The Corporate Counsel role is to provide practical and innovative legal advice on a broad range of commercial and compliance matters to internal business clients. This role will be responsible for drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide variety of corporate agreements. As a member of the legal team, this person will also have the opportunity to be involved in legal projects and longer-term department strategies.
What You'll Do:
- Review, markup/draft (from forms and from scratch), negotiate and close commercial contracts, including master services agreements, statements of work, licenses, RFP responses and supporting documents
- Provide rapid, practical, business-oriented legal/commercial contract advice directly to internal business clients
- Support internal business clients in negotiating price, deliverables, services scope, warranty and other commercial terms
- Apply innovative problem-solving skills and practical business judgment to maximize revenues, minimize risk and foster long-term client relationships
- Collaborate with and facilitate cross-team decision-making across various internal teams on a broad range of legal, business and strategic issues as they arise in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment
- Manage assigned projects to completion
What You'll Need:
- 5+ years of relevant experience in a corporate legal department; in-house corporate legal department experience preferred
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Services/Software industry experience preferred
- Analytical and research skills required
- Business oriented
- Experience negotiating commercial contracts and other experience demonstrating ability to handle and close commercial and legal negotiations
- Experience working in a fast-paced, fluid and collegial corporate culture
- Ability to draft and close commercial agreements with minimal support from senior staff
- Demonstrated ability to think and decide quickly, and to communicate legal issues and solutions clearly and concisely
- Experience with SaaS model contracts and related legal and business issues
