Legal Counsel
New York
Permanent
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Exciting role to join a fast growing SaaS start-up
Role will focus on tech contracts and other commercial agreements
About Our Client
Rapidly growing international SaaS client.
Job Description
The Legal Counsel will report directly to the US Legal Counsel. Responsibilities will include:
- Draft and negotiate complex commercial and technology agreements, including: license agreements, NDAs, vendor contracts, and partnership agreements
- Advise management, sales, customer success as well as finance and other company departments on legal issues and risks, complex deal structures, approval processes, company policies, procedures and negotiation strategies;
- Advise on IP, data privacy and data security matters
- Advise business leaders on a wide range of legal matters in a clear and concise manner
- Interact with internal clients on a daily basis
The Successful Applicant
- JD from a US ABA-accredited law school OR LL.M.
- Admission to NY State Bar
- 2-5 years of experience dealing with commercial and technology transactions gained from either a top law firm's Tech Transactions Practice or in-house at a SaaS company
- Experience must include transactional expertise in software, data, complex licensing, outsourcing legal experience
- Experience supporting Sales and Customer Success teams important
- High-volume technology contracts experience, drafting and negotiating technology agreements, including, consulting services agreements, IT outsourcing agreements, software license and maintenance agreements, re-seller agreements, hardware purchase agreements
- Experience dealing with IP technology matters is also preferred
- CIPP a plus
- Must have experience partnering directly with clients on a daily basis
- Team player with excellent communication skills
- Must be able to work autonomously
- Willingness to communicate with international business partners and General Counsel in different time zone
What's on Offer
- Competitive base salary
- Bonus
- Equity
- Great benefits
- Amazing office
- Amazing perks