Job Description

Location: Hybrid (New York City, NY) (2 days per week from office in NY City)

Responsibilities:

• Lead technology transaction negotiations in one or more business units;
• Own, enhance and lead our enterprise approach to vendor contracting with direct responsibility for cloud and data agreements;
• Ensure business teams view the implications of contracts from an end-to-end perspective;
• Balance business and contract goals against legal, business, policy and reputational risks;
• Make reasoned decisions to take appropriate risks;
• Defend positions and views to business team members as well as counterparties;
• Coordinate with other in-house counsel on issues and work cooperatively as one member of a larger team;
• Work with complex commercial agreements (i.e. Software Licenses, MSAs, and others);
• Engage in intensive, detail-oriented legal work;

Qualifications:

• Graduate of a top tier US law school;
• 5+ years of experience; ideally a combination of time with a large law firm as well as in-house experience with a focus on general corporate, technology, SaaS and software licensing matters;
• Ability to prioritize and undertake mission critical tasks in a fast-paced environment;
• Excellent communication and listening skills; the ability to effectively convey complex issues to senior business executives;
• Ability to work under limited supervision;
• Strong organizational and project management skills;
• Takes ownership of issues, is highly responsive and has a strong bias for action;

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Legal, Information Technology, and Public Relations

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting, Business Consulting and Services, and Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting

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