Senior Legal Counsel

VAST Data is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to join our team! This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is in the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence.

"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market." - Forbes

VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.

Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer‑first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills & experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.

Overview

We are looking for an experienced, hands‑on, pragmatic and proactive lawyer who enjoys advising on and negotiating a broad variety of commercial contracts.

Responsibilities

• The role has a particular focus on commercial technology contracts.
• Providing legal advice on a variety of legal matters with a primary emphasis on drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements for customers, partners and suppliers.
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating various standard and non‑standard contracts and related documents in support of business needs and initiatives. Representative agreement types are as follows: Software licensing agreements; Master Services Agreement, Non‑Disclosure Agreement, vendor agreements, marketing agreements, distribution, resale and other channel agreements.
• Identify commercial, legal and compliance risks arising from existing and contemplated commercial transactions and initiatives.
• Monitoring legal, legislative and regulatory trends applicable to the business (i.e. data privacy, security and data protection laws).
• Work with other departments across the globe to ensure consistency of advice.
• Reporting matters as required to the Legal Director
• Leading with other legal and compliance projects as requested.

Requirements

• Law degree from an accredited law school and active licence to practice law
• 8+ years in a similar role
• Excellent written and oral, negotiation and communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment and prioritize high priority tasks
• Ability to hit the ground running and enjoying working alongside senior stakeholders
• High level of attention to detail and ability to work independently and also to be part of a team.
• Prior in‑house experience in a fast‑paced environment working to tight deadlines
• Enthusiastic and self‑motivated with strong problem‑solving skills and a willing helpful attitude
• Understands business challenges and works to develop sensible and commercially reasonable compromise positions
• International experience and data privacy expertise are desired but not essential