Senior Legal Counsel - Procurement

Senior Legal Counsel - Procurement

Bangalore, India

New Relic is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel with extensive experience drafting and negotiating commercial transactions to join our legal team!

Joining the New Relic Legal Team means that you will have the chance to create an immediate impact. You will have a voice that is heard and respected, while encouraged to grow in your abilities and curate your own career path. If you are highly organized and responsive, have a passion for Software-as-a-Service contracts, and are a pro at collaborating across cultures and time zones for a complex international business, read on!

In this role, you will work with a worldwide team to support New Relic's procurement operations, advising internal clients and negotiating contracts to help mitigate legal issues. You will be primarily responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of complex commercial agreements, directing the work of the Vendor Contract Management team (paralegals), and working with Vendor Management Office and the Security and Compliance teams to maintain the company's security posture across our global supply chain. We'll need you to have excellent communication and collaboration skills to address complex issues in an accurate, clear, and detailed manner. This is a great opportunity if you have a passion for technology, excellent problem-solving skills, and an ability to thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment.

What You'll Do

• Advise internal clients directly regarding procurement matters and help them to mitigate legal issues associated with our global-scale supply chain.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of complex commercial agreements, including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), technology, and IT procurement contracts, data protection agreements and security addenda, along with other day-to-day operational agreements (consulting, professional services, hardware purchasing, etc.).
• Act as lead procurement counsel for all strategically important / high-value contracting, including cloud services agreements, data center agreements, and strategic buy/sell transactions in coordination with GTM Legal.
• Direct day-to-day operations of the Vendor Contract Management team responsible for reviewing and negotiating procurement contracts.
• Work closely with the Vendor Management Office (Sourcing, Security, IT, and Procurement Operations) and the Senior Director, Vendor Management to set policies and continuously improve workflows to decrease time-to-contract and improve risk-management and commercial outcomes.
• Work closely with the Security and Compliance teams to maintain the company's security posture across our global supply chain through a combination of contractual, technical, and business process solutions.
• Draft and maintain buy-side contracting templates and processes and our contract management "playbook," with a particular emphasis on IT, technology and infrastructure platform licensing, software and SaaS licensing, and IT-related professional services.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders (including VP and CxO-level) in different technical and business disciplines (engineering and product development, security, compliance, People Operations, etc.) and translate legal concepts/concerns into language they will understand and can act upon.

Required

• 5 – 7 years experience negotiating commercial contracts with a solid knowledge of technology and contract law and data protection principles.
• Attention to detail and excellence in contract drafting and dispute management, as well as ability to communicate in a precise, effective manner with various teams and customers.
• Proficiency negotiating topics such as privacy, security, and data protection in the commercial contract context.
• Excellent English-language writing skills (technical and colloquial).
• Patience, good humor, and the ability to give and receive feedback graciously.
• Ability to work on your own and prioritize multiple, often competing, deliverables while managing expectations and meeting deadlines across matter types and time zones.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to coordinate effectively and gain trust and confidence with personnel at many different levels.
• Active bar license in good standing in the state in which you reside.

Nice to Haves

• 2+ years of in-house experience with a multinational corporation (which may include secondments and in-house placements via alternative legal services providers).
• Understanding of software development, design, or product management processes.
• CIPP/E certification or similar privacy law experience, especially including experience in India privacy law.

Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics' different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We're looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.