Corporate Counsel

POSITION SUMMARY:

Under the supervision of the Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs, the Corporate Counsel will play a critical role partnering with the sales and business teams in addressing their legal needs.  The Corporate Counsel reviews and negotiates contracts and provides counsel to sales team members and managers to address legal questions and needs of mixed scope and complexity.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Review and negotiate commercial contract terms – both large and small - zealously. But also understand where compromise is appropriate.
• Meet demands and deadlines under regular pressure.
• Flexible and able to manage multiple varying demands simultaneously.
• Have a deep understanding of the interplay among different parts of a contract.
• Awareness of legal issues across the company (“issue spotting”), g., operations and invoicing, privacy, limitations of liability, intellectual property, indemnity, dispute resolution, force majeure, import/export issues.
• Understand long- and short-term impact of different contractual terms.
• Review and negotiate vendor and other contracts and NDAs with the same principles in mind.
• Efficiently and in simple terms, address special provisions in commercial quotes.
• Ability to pay attention to detail and manage input from numerous subject matter experts across the company while under pressure from other teams to expedite review.
• Good writer.
• Engage in and on occasion lead, early morning and late night meetings.
• Have flexibility to work with limited resources of an emerging growth company.
• Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, and training;
• Perform other duties as assigned.

SUPPORTIVE FUNCTIONS (IF ANY)

• Help draft policies and procedures.
• Help manage paralegal.
• Assist in review of marketing materials for litigation issue spotting.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years of law firm experience

  Examples of other experience:

  • Demonstrated critical thinking and effective problem-solving skills;
  • Professional internal skills, including patience, discretion, and confidentiality;
  • Excellent organization and time management skills; Project management experience is desirable; experience with SmartSheet a plus;
  • Detail oriented and demonstrated accuracy; excellent writing skills preferred.

Economic Package Includes:

• Salary $200,000- $250,000
• Annual Bonus
• Equity
• Generous company Paid Health Care, Dental, and Vision Coverage
  • Including Coverage for your partner and dependents
• Three Health Care Plan Options
  • FSA and HSA Options
• PTO and Sick Leave
• 401(K) with company matching
• Disability and Life Insurance Benefits
• $50 phone stipend per pay period