The Role
The Associate General Counsel at OVHcloud provides legal support across departments, manages complex agreements, ensures compliance, and oversees privacy initiatives. They guide teams through legal requirements and assist in risk mitigation.
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Job Summary
OVHcloud is seeking a talented and experienced Associate General Counsel to join our team. This role will be instrumental in the success of our legal operations and future growth of the company. The Associate General Counsel will provide legal support to the Company’s sales organization, product team, marketing team, customer success team, operations team, and senior management, and will provide valued legal insight and guidance to support optimal business decision making. This position will spearhead and/or support a variety of legal initiatives in the areas of sales and marketing activities, product launches, commercial transactions, data privacy/data protection, and legal and regulatory compliance. The position reports to the General Counsel and is based in Reston, Virginia.
Base pay range: $225,000 - $245,000 (based on relevant experience).
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Minimum Requirements
Preferred Qualification
Working Conditions
Standard office environment
Company Description – About OVHcloud
OVHcloud US is a subsidiary of OVHcloud, a global cloud provider that specializes in delivering industry-leading performance and cost-effective solutions to better manage, secure, and scale data. OVHcloud US delivers bare metal servers, hosted private cloud, hybrid and public cloud solutions. OVHcloud manages 43 data centers across 12 sites on four continents, manufacturing its own servers, building its own data centers and deploying its own fiber-optic global network to achieve maximum efficiency. Through the OVHcloud spirit of challenging the status quo, the company brings freedom, security and innovation to solve data challenges – today and tomorrow. With a 25-year heritage, OVHcloud is committed to developing responsible technology and strives to be the driving force behind the next cloud evolution. https://us.ovhcloud.com.
EEO Statement
OVHcloud is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex (including childbirth, breast feeding, and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, uniform service member and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.
OVHcloud is seeking a talented and experienced Associate General Counsel to join our team. This role will be instrumental in the success of our legal operations and future growth of the company. The Associate General Counsel will provide legal support to the Company’s sales organization, product team, marketing team, customer success team, operations team, and senior management, and will provide valued legal insight and guidance to support optimal business decision making. This position will spearhead and/or support a variety of legal initiatives in the areas of sales and marketing activities, product launches, commercial transactions, data privacy/data protection, and legal and regulatory compliance. The position reports to the General Counsel and is based in Reston, Virginia.
Base pay range: $225,000 - $245,000 (based on relevant experience).
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Draft, negotiate and advise on complex commercial agreements with domestic and international customers, partners, and vendors, including enterprise sales agreements, reseller agreements, licensing agreements, master service agreements, vendor agreements, consulting agreements and confidentiality agreements.
- Advise product development, operations, sales, and marketing teams on all associated legal requirements from product development through product launch, including consumer protections laws and data protection laws and regulations.
- Be integrally involved with the company’s privacy program and assist in implementation of all internal initiatives, as well as keep current with all privacy laws and update privacy notices and other documentation accordingly.
- Review of all marketing activities, including website review, press releases, white papers, blog posts and promotional activities.
- Analyze products, policies, and initiatives to provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies for technology products across multiple jurisdictions.
- Stay current on relevant industry, consumer protection, digital advertising, intellectual property, data privacy and data security laws and regulations.
- Handle pre-litigation legal disputes.
- Identify, champion, and provide training on best practices for corporate policies and procedures.
- Advise multiple stakeholders on complex matters.
- Build strong internal and external relationships.
Minimum Requirements
- JD with membership in at least one state bar.
- 8+ years of relevant legal experience, large law firm experience and/or prior in-house experience.
- A commercial transactional background.
- Experience with privacy law.
- Experience drafting, negotiating, and reviewing complex commercial agreements for software licensing, and infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and related cloud services technologies for enterprise and digital sales.
- Excellent drafting, negotiating, analytical, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working on multiple assignments at once and prioritizing effectively.
- Ability to work independently and meet strict deadlines.
- Experience working with and leading cross-functional teams to execute on objectives.
- Ability to work within an international company and work effectively with different cultures.
- A good communicator and highly responsive.
Preferred Qualification
- Technology transactions and intellectual property experience, and cloud experience highly valued.
- Experience advising clients on risk mitigation across technology product platforms.
- Familiarity with Salesforce.
Working Conditions
Standard office environment
Company Description – About OVHcloud
OVHcloud US is a subsidiary of OVHcloud, a global cloud provider that specializes in delivering industry-leading performance and cost-effective solutions to better manage, secure, and scale data. OVHcloud US delivers bare metal servers, hosted private cloud, hybrid and public cloud solutions. OVHcloud manages 43 data centers across 12 sites on four continents, manufacturing its own servers, building its own data centers and deploying its own fiber-optic global network to achieve maximum efficiency. Through the OVHcloud spirit of challenging the status quo, the company brings freedom, security and innovation to solve data challenges – today and tomorrow. With a 25-year heritage, OVHcloud is committed to developing responsible technology and strives to be the driving force behind the next cloud evolution. https://us.ovhcloud.com.
EEO Statement
OVHcloud is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex (including childbirth, breast feeding, and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, uniform service member and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.
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The Company
What We Do
OVHcloud is a global player and the leading European cloud provider operating 400,000 servers within over 30 data centers across 4 continents. For more than 20 years, OVHcloud has been leveraging an integrated model that provides full control of our value chain, from designing its servers to managing its data centers through to orchestrating its fiber-optic network. This unique approach enables OVHcloud to cover, independently, the full spectrum of use cases for its 1.6 million customers across 140 countries. OVHcloud now offers customers latest-generation solutions that combine high performance, predictable pricing and full data sovereignty to support their unfettered growth. The group employs more than 2,200 people and our teams are growing rapidly. To support our vision, we are constantly looking for new talents who share our values and ambitions. Our motto: be open, be sustainable, be free in the cloud!
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