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Overview
We are looking for a bright, energetic, highly collaborative attorney to join our Legal Department as Junior In-House Counsel. This role will primarily support the commercial function including sales, GRC, and the product and engineering teams.
This will be a highly interactive role that will interface regularly with the company’s Vice President of Legal, Associate General Counsel and Senior Corporate Counsel, as well as members of executive leadership, and stakeholders cross-functionally at all levels of the organisation.
Responsibilities
Based in Bangalore or Mumbai and reporting to the Associate General Counsel - Sales, this team member will:
- Conduct initial review of and prepare proposed revisions/redlines to a wide variety of commercial agreements, including standard software license, subscription and SaaS agreements, confidentiality agreements, partner agreements, OEM agreements and other commercial contracts under guidance of Associate General Counsel - Sales.
- Assist with and respond to ad-hoc queries from sales teams globally, help optimize the commercial function by seeking efficiencies, assist with updating and maintaining playbooks and standard contracts, and work collaboratively with other members of the legal team.
- Interface frequently with information security and IT teams.
- Provide support on other legal issues relevant to a software and technology business including those relating to open source, encryption, and data security
- Assist in identifying and implementing process improvements to promote efficient workflows and handling of legal requests.
- Provide substantive support to other members of the Legal Department as needed.
- Perform other special assignments, strategic projects or duties as assigned.
Interpersonal skills and competencies
- Be passionate about technology and energized by the challenges of serving a dynamic, global company.
- Be extremely bright but also have an EQ that matches IQ, and the ability to engage effectively with all levels of employees and management.
- Have excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, and the ability to forge and maintain good relationships with stakeholders.
- Be organised, results-oriented, efficient and resourceful.
- Have excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to anticipate issues and escalate appropriately.
- Be highly analytical and have exceptional problem-solving skills, and a desire to build and grow knowledge and experience.
- Have a practical, business-oriented approach and be able to counsel internal stakeholders by providing clear and concise legal advice with an appreciation for commercial priorities.
- Be able to propose creative solutions where necessary, on established timelines, to address business needs while mitigating risk.
- Have impeccable professional ethics, integrity and judgment.
- Have a sense of humour and can-do attitude.
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Skills Required
- Review and prepare revisions/redlines to commercial agreements including software license, subscription and SaaS agreements, confidentiality, partner and OEM agreements
- Support and respond to ad-hoc queries from global sales teams and help maintain playbooks and standard contracts
- Interface frequently with information security and IT teams
- Provide support on legal issues relevant to software and technology businesses including open source, encryption, and data security
- Assist in identifying and implementing process improvements for legal workflows
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills; ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels
- Highly analytical, strong problem-solving, organized, results-oriented and business-oriented approach to legal advice
- Impeccable professional ethics, integrity and judgment
SolarWinds Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SolarWinds and has not been reviewed or approved by SolarWinds.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with some locations covering healthcare, dental, and vision at 100% and generally well-regarded plan quality. Feedback suggests wellness resources, counseling, and fitness reimbursements further strengthen the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and a sabbatical after five years are part of the package. Feedback suggests global parental leave minimums add meaningful family support to the overall time-off mix.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Compensation is considered solid by many, with consistent raises noted alongside base pay. Feedback suggests bonuses and structured increases contribute to a sense of ongoing pay growth.
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What We Do
SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. Our products give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to monitor and manage their IT services, infrastructures, and applications; whether on-premises, in the cloud, or via hybrid models. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps professionals, and managed services providers (MSPs)—to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures and applications. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK® community, allow us to solve well-understood IT management challenges in the ways technology professionals want them solved. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for network and IT service management, application performance, and managed services.
