Corporate Counsel

Overview

We are looking for a bright, energetic, highly collaborative attorney to join our Legal Department as Junior In-House Counsel. This role will primarily support the commercial function including sales, GRC, and the product and engineering teams.  

This will be a highly interactive role that will interface regularly with the company’s Vice President of Legal, Associate General Counsel and Senior Corporate Counsel, as well as members of executive leadership, and stakeholders cross-functionally at all levels of the organisation. 

Responsibilities 

Based in Bangalore or Mumbai and reporting to the Associate General Counsel - Sales, this team member will: 

• Conduct initial review of and prepare proposed revisions/redlines to a wide variety of commercial agreements, including standard software license, subscription and SaaS agreements, confidentiality agreements, partner agreements, OEM agreements and other commercial contracts under guidance of Associate General Counsel - Sales.  

• Assist with and respond to ad-hoc queries from sales teams globally, help optimize the commercial function by seeking efficiencies, assist with updating and maintaining playbooks and standard contracts, and work collaboratively with other members of the legal team.  

• Interface frequently with information security and IT teams.  

• Provide support on other legal issues relevant to a software and technology business including those relating to open source, encryption, and data security 

• 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 about technology and energized by the challenges of serving a dynamic, global company. 

• Be extremely bright but also have an EQ that matches IQ, and the ability to engage effectively with all levels of employees and management. 

• Have excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, and the ability to forge and maintain good relationships with stakeholders. 

• Be organised, results-oriented, efficient and resourceful.   

• Have excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication 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 and be able to counsel internal stakeholders by providing 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 impeccable professional ethics, integrity and judgment. 

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