Principal Corporate Counsel
Provide legal support for complex technology transactions by developing negotiation strategies, solving problems creatively, and coordinating CELA and business team subject matter experts. Draft, negotiate, and structure integrated agreements encompassing sales, procurement, strategic partnerships, investments, and other innovative business models, addressing legal issues such as commercial contracts, intellectual property, and data protection.
Guide escalations to appropriate senior leaders to take smart and well-informed risks to meet customer needs. You will communicate in ways that create clarity and advance negotiations and projects to achieve closure of open issues. You will provide practical and strategic advice to business clients and CELA colleagues. You will ensure a coordinated legal voice through broad collaboration across groups, management and leaders.
This will involve organizing and simplifying complex issues and recommending clear courses of action. Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent law degree AND experience working in a law firm or in-house roles specializing in complex transactions including technology transactions, M&A, business development, or related work managing complex transactions involving multiple stakeholders.
Active license to practice law in a jurisdiction or ability to meet admission requirements in a relevant jurisdiction. Well experienced in advising on technology transactions (e.g., cloud services, software licensing, SaaS, professional services, strategic partnerships, and/or AI models and solutions).
Deal strategy skills, with experience of successfully advising on large-scale, nuanced transactions that involve multiple strategic, operational, and legal dimensions and the requirement to meet deadlines in the face of competing priorities.
Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive action in a fast-paced, highly matrixed environment, applying strong legal judgment and a pragmatic approach while balancing business goals, risk tolerance, and stakeholder priorities. Teamplayer with ability to work with cross-functional teams to solve complex issues, invest in others, and collaborate closely to generate consensus across diverse points of view.
Ability to quickly develop expertise in new and emerging areas, analyse novel and complex legal issues, and apply learning effectively as legal, regulatory, and business environments evolve. Additional language skills (e.g. Spanish) would be a plus.
