Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel (Remote)

Our client seeks to hire a proactive, business-oriented, and tech-savvy attorney to join our Legal team. Reporting to the Global CFO, we are looking for a person with a law degree and experience managing both legal contracts and internal business processes. You will partner directly with executives, developers, and product managers to provide strategic legal counsel and leadership on issues from development through launch and distribution. Using a broad knowledge base to assess and mitigate risk, you will bring together cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and compliance.

The ideal candidate will also play an important role in shaping policies and processes to help the Legal Department scale as our client continues to grow, and to drive important compliance initiatives relating to product development, privacy, and data protection.

This is a great opportunity to join an organization that will have the ability to grow within a successful, fast-growing, international company.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Review and negotiation of various contracts and NDAs with clients, suppliers, partners
• Support the AMERICAS Sales team by negotiating Terms & Conditions with clients and participating in RFP processes
• Participate in calls and meetings related to legal and contractual matters
• Coordinate contract negotiations with internal stakeholders and the Company’s various law firms

Requirements / Qualifications:

A law degree with a minimum of 3 years of experience in a law firm or legal department of a multi-national company

Extremely organized with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy

Proactive individual that is a problem solver and an orientation to satisfying the needs of both internal and external clients

Knowledge of global privacy laws including GDPR and CCPA

CIPP certified, or ability to demonstrate equivalent knowledge

First experiences advising on cyber risk and IT compliance

Discrete nature and high sense of confidentiality

• Good communication skills, both oral and written
• Good working knowledge of Word, PowerPoint and Excel

Critical Competencies:

• Relationship building: Builds effective relationships through positive communication that motivates and influences others. Is an honest, trustworthy, a valued team member, and actively involved in achieving team objectives.
• Personal Effectiveness: Produces outstanding results both professionally and personally by being proactive and committed. Continually focuses on achieving positive results contributing to company’s business success.
• Technical Competence: Uses technical / job knowledge and experience, incorporating functional skills and broad-based business knowledge, to meet and exceed job requirements / customer expectations.
• Communication: Deliver exceptional written and verbal communication incorporating training materials, presentations, and guidelines.

Applicable Competencies:

• Customer Focus: Passionately meets or exceeds customer Expectations. Enters the customer’s world through listening and understanding. Nurtures relationships by recognizing and delivering on customer needs and opinions.
• Managing complexity: Is able to work effectively in a highly complex, diverse, changing environment. Adapts well to and is energized by change whilst maintaining focus on key business goals and personal objectives.
• Innovation: Embraces creativity and is open to new ideas. Innovates to improve current working practices / products / technologies to provide business opportunities and results.
• Problem solving: Takes initiative to identify current and potential problems and determines the best solution. Involves and/or manages the people and resources required.

Business Management: Produces outstanding results both professionally and personally by effective management of business processes.