Description:

Corporate Counsel
An American Electronic Design Automation Company is looking to hire a highly motivated Corporate Counsel with excellent judgment and interpersonal skills. The candidate must thrive in a customer-centric team and have outstanding relationship-building skills. This is an amazing opportunity to work with a dynamic legal team at a well-established company with a culture that encourages teamwork and innovation. The position will support transactions in North America by handling commercial contracts (including, software license agreements, SOWs, NDAs, SaaS agreements, purchase agreements, and others).

To succeed in this role the candidate must possess excellent business judgment and critical thinking; can work independently as well as cross-functionally and demonstrate flexibility in a collaborative, dynamic team environment; have excellent writing skills; and strong negotiation and communication skills.

Job Requirements and Responsibilities

Five to seven years of legal experience in a software company
Substantive transactional experience with complex contract and/or licensing agreements
High attention to detail
Ability to manage multiple competing priorities
Contract review, drafting, and negotiation for the Synopsys' Sales team
Attend Customer negotiation calls and represent the company's position on contract issues
Analyze and interpret complex provisions in contracts and liaise with business group stakeholders
Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, impeccable integrity, good judgment, and be flexible and pragmatic
Ability to work with sales and engineering teams in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
J.D. from an accredited law school
Licensed to practice law in California preferred