Description:
We are looking for a passionate, pragmatic, business-oriented lawyer to join our team and be our dynamic legal champion for our US and UK activities. As a member of the A Post-Purchase Experience Software Company legal team reporting to the General Counsel, you will advise and provide legal support for regional sales and marketing teams, support the business in your areas of expertise as well as actively assist in the expansion of the legal function in close collaboration with the GC.Role:
- Partner with our US and UK sales team to advise on and negotiate customer deals and contracts in an efficient, business-oriented manner.
- Draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts including: SaaS & software agreements, SLAs, SOWs, NDAs, procurement (service providers, software license, sponsorship, events, marketing) contracts, data processing agreements, privacy policy.
- Collaborate with the General Counsel with internal training workshops, legal operations strategy, drafting of guidelines and policies and other internal projects to build efficiencies and support internal teams in their daily work.
- Support our people team with regional employment-related questions and ad-hoc contract reviews and negotiation.
- Handle regional housekeeping, IP portfolio, insurance, corporate and M&A matters as necessary.
- Coordinate, manage, and challenge outside counsels on various legal topics.
- Address any other legal and business challenge while maintaining your priorities.
Requirements:
- Education: US: JD from an accredited U.S. law school // UK: being a qualified lawyer in the UK.
- Experience: you have 5+ years of experience combined at a law firm and as an in-house counsel (min. 2 years) in a start-up or scale up environment or technology company.
- Expertise: you could review and negotiate commercial contracts in your sleep and you excel in one of these areas of the law and show workable knowledge and/or keen interest in other areas: IT and IP law, commercial law, corporate law, employment law, privacy law.
- Growth mindset: You are passionate, dynamic and dedicated at work; you are eager to learn, develop and grow in your role, always out for a challenge.
- Organisation Skills: You are efficient and extremely organised in order to juggle tasks and projects in an independent and proactive manner; you are able to balance rigour, attention to detail and working at a fast pace.
- Communication skills: You are able to communicate clearly and succinctly. Adapting your communication to your audience is like second nature.
- Remote-able: You excel in a remote-first culture of flexibility and accountability.
- Interpersonal skills: You bring your authentic self, seek and speak the truth directly and possess high courage and low ego; you are keen to create strong connections with your stakeholders.
- Tech savviness: you enjoy working with and are curious about new technologies (web applications/digital transformation/artificial intelligence).
- Language: Excellent written/verbal communication and negotiation skills in English, with German as a plus.
