Legal Counsel - Veeam Software

We’re looking to recruit a Legal Counsel into the Veeam Legal team. The successful candidate will work in close partnership and provide support on a variety of legal matters, including intellectual property, commercial software licensing, NDAs, and compliance. You will work directly with sales teams on advising on high value transactions and may also support the HR, Procurement, and Privacy departments based on interest and need.

Responsibilities

• • Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating of: (a) end user license agreements; (b) distributor; (c) aggregator; (d) pro-partner/reseller agreements; (e) NDAs; and (f) BaaS/ SaaS agreements; and other legal documents related to licensing and/or distribution of Veeam’s software to the territory of NA.
  • Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements and other legal documents related to Veeam-partners (alliances) and (global system integrator) relations (not regarding licensing or distribution of the software).
  • Manage contract forms, including periodic review and change processes.
  • Provide legal advice on GDPR and data protection matters related to licensing or resale and distribution of the software and on BaaS/ SaaS transactions to the territory of NA & EMEA (working with EMEA legal counsel).
  • Resolve legal issues and contract interpretation matters that arise in existing commercial relationships.
  • Anticipate problems and initiate actions to ensure contractual issues are addressed efficiently.
  • Develop and deliver trainings for employees and executives on a variety of subjects within counsel’s areas of responsibility, including on compliance matters, competition, the use of contract templates, risk management, procurement, and good contracting practices.
  • Assist with legal support of efforts to expand business operations internationally.
  • Provide business partners with thoughtful legal perspective and guidance, as well as risk assessment and mitigation strategies.
  • Manage a central NA legal inbox responding to queries in a timely manner and be able to accurately direct non legal queries to the relevant department.

Qualifications

• 2-7 years’ experience as an attorney with a mix of significant law firm and in-house experience focusing on general commercial contract negotiation and drafting (not litigation), and with a minimum of one-two years’ experience working as an in-house attorney at a technology company.
• English is mandatory, and a second language, French or German, would be advantageous.
• Preference for experience in drafting and negotiating license software contracts.
• Exercises meticulous attention to detail and an organized approach to quickly identify a problem to be solved, and then solve it.
• Ability to be creative and flexible but with a focus on business-oriented outcomes.
• Highly developed written and oral communications skills, with the ability to clearly articulate recommendations and options about complex legal issues.
• Highly collaborative and able to organize and manage projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Tactful with strong external negotiation skills.
• Demonstrate a strong willingness to learn.

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