Commercial Legal Counsel, EMEA

Full Time
8 months ago
Role Description

As a Commercial Counsel, you'll have a broad range of responsibilities. You’ll partner with the business, structure commercial partnerships and negotiate and draft a wide variety of inbound and outbound agreements. You’ll develop legal approaches and processes for our global products. Entrepreneurial by nature, you’ll have immediate impact through analytic rigor, uncanny judgment, and effective counseling. If you are a person with user-driven instincts who loves a challenging, team-focused, and dynamic environment, this is the place for you.

Responsibilities
  • Review, draft and negotiate all types of agreements - including inbound, outbound, infrastructure, and partnership agreements
  • Take accountability for important issues and decisions and see them through
  • Design, build, and improve legal department processes to keep up with growth
  • Build commercial strategy for product launches
  • Advise technical and business development teams from the initial stages of product development, through launch, to market strategy.
  • Lead internal projects, trainings, processes, and drive cross-functional efforts to completion
Requirements
  • At least 1+ year/s post qualification experience in a law firm or in-house setting
  • Experience with and passion for commercial law, privacy laws, intellectual property law, licensing, consumer issues in the digital environment, and information policy
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and organisational skills
  • Skilled at negotiating, drafting and interpreting technology agreements
  • Eager to learn new technologies and ideas
  • Comfortable navigating complicated and nuanced issues
  • Great interpersonal skills with sound business judgement and the ability to work well in a fast-paced team environment
  • Qualified solicitor or barrister with a stellar academic record
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience relevant to technology or real estate transactions, privacy law, or advertising