Corporate Counsel, Commercial Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Corporate Counsel, Commercial to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Structure, draft, negotiate, and review a range of commercial agreements, including highly complicated and novel agreements;
- Handle ad-hoc projects across a spectrum of complex business, legal, and strategic issues;
- Support a very fast paced business with tight deadlines while providing diligent and detailed work product;
- Develop and implement innovative ways to scale commercial legal processes;
- Provide legal support to company’s sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, product management, and business development teams;
- Assisting in other matters such as data and consumer privacy matters, antitrust matters, and securities matters, as appropriate;
- Work cross-functionally within the company to influence and create actionable initiatives and reduce legal risk;
- Supporting the Legal team in developing, implementing and enforcing legal and compliance policies;
- Other relevant duties and tasks as requested or necessary;
- Creating and maintaining template agreements and refining contract processes and forms.
Requirements:
- Substantive expertise in intellectual property law;
- Excellent written/verbal communication and negotiation skills;
- Sound and practical business judgment;
- Highly responsive and service-oriented attitude;
- Ability to maintain strong working relationships with demanding internal clients;
- Undergraduate degree and a law degree from highly regarded schools;
- 5+ years handling commercial transactions, in-house and/or at a law firm;
- Experience drafting software license agreements;
- Excellent business and legal judgment and the ability to work flexibly with a variety of teams;
- Inquisitiveness, willingness to learn new things, and ability to take the initiative to solve problems without being explicitly instructed to do so;
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and comfort with the uncertainty inherent in building a business;
- Experience handling commercial contract disputes;
- Experience working for or with OEM and vehicle-manufacturing companies;
- JD with outstanding academic credentials and at least one state bar;
- Experience with other types of corporate transactional documents, such as financing documents and real estate agreements.