Corporate Counsel

Primary Responsibilities:

Lead commercial transactions to closure in prudent and expeditious manner.

Review, draft and negotiate a wide variety of contract terms.

Provide risk assessment and commercial legal advice.

Identify or collaborate to create solutions to deal roadblocks.

Exercise judgment and delegated authority on wide-ranging issues.

Coordinate across multiple internal organizations to resolve issues.

Vet contract issues/requests with appropriate internal organizations, track responses, and draft resulting feedback and perform internal escalations for approval where as necessary.

Project manage multiple deals to closure simultaneously.

Present training to client groups on transaction legal issues and strategies.

Continuously seek to improve the transaction support process.

Experience:

Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant and recent commercial transactions experience in a similar work environment (i.e., law firm or corporate legal department).

Demonstrated success in complex contract review, drafting and negotiation for sales/outsource transactions involving technology products/services, including licensing/IP related terms.

Experience with responsibility for all aspects of commercial transactions, including basic financials and all non-pricing business issues and contract terms.

Familiarity with all phases of sales/outsource contracting from pre-contract Requests for Proposals/Bids to contract negotiation/execution and post-contract legal support.

Experience supporting a professional, outside sales force in technology transactions.

Successful record of interacting with sophisticated enterprise customers and vendors, and their third-party representatives, as transaction counterparties.