Corporate Counsel

Your Role:

We are looking for a bright, energetic, highly collaborative attorney to join our Legal Department as Corporate Counsel. This role will primarily support the commercial function including sales and procurement.

This will be a highly interactive role that will report to the Associate General Counsel

• Sales. The role will entail active, dynamic and engaging interaction with other members of the company's legal department, as well as members of executive leadership, and stakeholders cross-functionally at all levels of the organization.

Your Impact:

Based in Austin, Texas and reporting to the Associate General Counsel

• Sales, this team member will:

• Provide proactive counsel on a broad range of legal matters, particularly related to commercial transactions involving the company's software and cloud services.

• Facilitate with and streamline communication between relevant affected areas within the company on a global basis including sales, finance, product, and information security.

• Conduct initial review of and prepare proposed revisions/redlines to a wide variety of commercial and technology agreements, including a heavy volume of software license, subscription and SaaS agreements, confidentiality agreements, and partner related agreements.

• Assist the procurement team in the review of vendor agreements that are escalated to legal.

• Assist in developing training materials, and advise and educate sales teams and other internal stakeholders on legal processes and provide ongoing guidance and coordination throughout a contract lifecycle.

• Assist in identifying and implementing process improvements to promote efficient workflows and handling of legal requests.

• Provide substantive support to other members of the Legal Department as needed.

• Perform other special assignments, strategic projects or duties as assigned.

Interpersonal skills and competencies

• Be passionate and energized by the challenges of serving a dynamic, global company.

• Have a strong work ethic, and excellent communication and negotiation skills (both written and verbal),

• The ability to forge and maintain trust and a strong working relationship with stakeholders, and engage effectively with all levels of the organization.

• Be independently driven, action-oriented, organized, results-oriented, efficient and resourceful.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Able to anticipate issues and escalate appropriately.

• Be highly analytical and have exceptional problem-solving skills, and a desire to build and grow knowledge and experience.

• Have a practical, business-oriented approach in order to provide internal stakeholders with clear and concise legal advice with an appreciation for commercial priorities.

• Be able to propose creative solutions where necessary, on established timelines, to address business needs while mitigating risk.

• Have a sense of humor and can-do attitude.

• Be able to simultaneously manage multiple workflows, client demands and shifting priorities within a fast-paced, high-intensity and rapidly evolving environment while maintaining composure and a positive attitude.

• Have a strong desire to learn the business and new areas of law.

Your Experience:

• Admitted to and in good standing with the bar of a U.S. state.

• 3 to 5 years of experience working in a fast-paced, in-house legal department for a software/technology company.

• Adept at translating legal advice into actionable guidance.

• Flexible, open-minded thinker with the desire to prioritize internal client needs.

• Confident in suggesting sound decisions for implementation.