Associate Counsel - Commercial Transactions

• Act astheprincipallegal support for vendor contracts by reviewing and negotiating vendor contracts. Related tasks include communicating deadlines, requirements, andpartnering to addresscontract-relatedissues with the procurement,risk management,security, IT and privacy teams; managing legal queue of contracts for review; managing stakeholder and vendor communicationswith theprocurement team;engaging withothermembers of the legal teamon contract review; engaging with vendor counsel in negotiations. Transactions may include inbound enterprise and SAAS software contracts,company event contracts, consulting and professional services agreements,equipment and supply contracts, statements of work,and purchase orders.

• Suggest, work on,and,where opportunity arises, lead onimprovements in processes, e.g.collaborateclosely withprocurementteaminaprocure-to-contract tool, manage thelegal contract process in a CLM tool, updateor createstandard forms or variations,which may includecreating efficiencies in contracting, work with other stakeholders, and createdocumentation for processesthrough the utilization ofgenAItools.

• Become a hero toour internal stakeholders,departments or groups by quickly reviewing or preparing a variety of agreements,including providing support for customer agreements where time and opportunity allow,and providing focused, value-adding, comments on key issuesbyquickly and accurately respondingto/negotiating or generating a challenging volume and variety of contracts - ranging from straight-forward to complex. Thisimportant rolekeepsour business moving and our systemsoperating.

• Assistin the administration of our internal approval workflow system, prioritize contracts, and respond toorappropriatelytriagequestions.

• Be a pinch hitter tohelp outas time permits and needs arise in supporting theLegal and Legal Operations teams with projects, which may includecollaborating to supportcustomer commercial deals,creating efficiencies in contracting,process improvements,working with other stakeholders, andupdatingforms.

• Skilled knowledge working withDocuSign, MSFT Office, Salesforce, Contracts Management System (Ironclad).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three or more years of high-quality relevant experience as part of a legal team.

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Intelligence, flexibility, creativity, diligence, responsiveness, andexcellentcommunicationsskills.

• Required:Experiencenegotiatinga variety ofcommercial contracts, includingSaaS agreements,consulting and professional services,sponsorship agreements, general services contracts,on-prem softwarecontracts, equipment and supply contracts,statements of work,and purchase orders.

• Required: Experience working with procurement,internalstakeholdersand business teams,negotiatingcontractual legalterms, andidentifyingandassessingcontractualrisksand impacts.

• Desirable but notrequired:Background in information technology orprocuringinformation technology.

• Desirable but notrequired: Experience working as a litigatoror part of a litigation team.

• Desirable but notrequired:Experience working with contract management systems.

• Ability to research and analyzelegalissues, and solidproficiencywith MS Word

Minimum Qualifications:

• Legal degree (licensed attorney-at-law or admitted solicitor)with good grades from a good school.

• Strong organizationalskills and attention to detail.

• Intelligence, flexibility, creativity, diligence, responsiveness, andexcellentcommunicationsskills.

• Reasonable exposure to computer and software technology concepts.

• Solidproficiencywith MSOffice, and Salesforce.