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Platform Science · 14 hours ago

Director of Legal and Business Affairs

California, United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$161K/yr - $240K/yr

7+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Demonstrated successful track record gained at both law firms and in-house at technology companies supporting business development, sales, marketing, go-to-market and similar functions on important commercial contracts, preferably on a global basis.

Demonstrated experience negotiating and documenting professional services, technology outsourcing, SaaS enterprise sales, and various distribution and marketing relationships is required.

Good business acumen, excellent legal drafting skills, excellent interpersonal skills, and good and mature judgement is also required in this important role.

Experience with formal contract processes from quote to signed definitive agreement is also important, as is the ability to work closely not only with sales and business development, but also with the advanced technology group, product operations, engineering, finance and other members of the legal team.

A willingness to work on and even be responsible for large matters where the candidate will grow through significant real-world experience, as well as executing on a high volume of relatively smaller matters, is key.

This is a very key role in our legal team and will require heavy collaboration skills with people across various functions, time zones, countries, languages and companies.

The position is intended to be initially an individual contributor role and as such the successful person needs to be committed to being a 'doer' and not an 'overseer'.

Qualification

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Commercial lawSoftware licensingIntellectual propertyData privacyEnterprise sales contractsProfessional service contractsMarketing arrangementsDistribution arrangementsLitigation managementCorporate financeHardware developmentContract processesEmployment lawProcurementPatentsLegal draftingCollaboration skills

Required

Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school and admission to the Bar in the relevant jurisdiction.

7-10+ years of overall legal experience in-house preferably at a SaaS business or technology business with global operations and high growth.

Demonstrated experience in enterprise sales contracts, professional service contracts, marketing and distribution arrangements, software licensing, intellectual property licensing and data privacy.

Good business acumen.

Excellent legal drafting skills.

Excellent interpersonal skills.

Good and mature judgement.

Experience with formal contract processes from quote to signed definitive agreement.

Ability to work closely not only with sales and business development, but also with the advanced technology group, product operations, engineering, finance and other members of the legal team.

Willingness to work on and even be responsible for large matters where the candidate will grow through significant real-world experience.

Ability to execute on a high volume of relatively smaller matters.

Heavy collaboration skills with people across various functions, time zones, countries, languages and companies.

Successful communication skills and collaboration with senior management, internal teams, and external partners.

Ability to travel to the office (in San Diego, CA (UTC area) is required at times including at times on relatively short notice.

Reside in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside or San Diego counties.

Preferred

Experience and even expertise in substantive areas such as commercial law, software licensing, service arrangements, intellectual property, hardware development and supply, and various business development, distribution and marketing arrangements.

Experience with international operations.

Experience with employment law.

Experience with litigation management.

Experience with procurement.

Experience with patents.

Experience with corporate finance and governance.

Experience gained at both law firms and in-house at technology companies (hopefully including some SaaS) supporting business development, sales, marketing, go-to-market and similar functions on important commercial contracts, preferably on a global basis.