Corporate Counsel

POSITION SUMMARY: 

Under the supervision of the Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs, the Corporate Counsel will play a critical role partnering with the sales and business teams in addressing their legal needs.  The Corporate Counsel reviews and negotiates contracts and provides counsel to sales team members and managers  to address legal questions and needs of mixed scope and complexity.  

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function more than satisfactorily. 
• Review and negotiate commercial contract terms – both large and small – zealously. But have the ability to also understand where compromise is appropriate.  
• Meet demands and deadlines under regular pressure. 
• Flexible and able to manage multiple varying demands simultaneously. 
• Have a deep understanding of the interplay among different parts of a contract; litigation experience in this regard is a plus. 
• Awareness of and ability to advise on legal issues across the company (“issue spotting”), e.g., operations and invoicing, privacy, limitations of liability, intellectual property, indemnity, dispute resolution, insurance, force majeure, import/export issues. Experience in employment law is a plus. 
• Understand long- and short-term impact of different contractual terms. 
• Review and negotiate vendor and other contracts and NDAs with the same principles in mind. 
• Efficiently and in simple terms, address special provisions in commercial quotes. 
• Attention to detail. 
• Ability to pay attention to detail and manage input from numerous subject matter experts across the company while under pressure from other teams to expedite review. 
• Good writer. 
• Engage in and on occasion lead, early morning and late night meetings. 
• Have flexibility to work with limited resources of an emerging growth company. 
• Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, and training; 
• Flexible and able to perform other duties as assigned. 
• Be a team player and have a positive attitude

SUPPORTIVE FUNCTIONS: 

• Help draft policies and procedures. 
• Help manage paralegal. 
• Assist in review of marketing materials for litigation issue spotting.   

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 7 years of experience; Significant law firm experience required.
• Complete knowledge and full understanding of area of specialization, principles, and practices within a professional discipline. 
• Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles. Requires conceptual thinking to understand advanced issues and implications.  
• Demonstrated critical thinking and effective problem-solving skills; 
• Professional internal skills, including patience, discretion, and confidentiality; 
• Excellent organization and time management skills;  
• Litigation including litigation project management experience is desirable;  
• Detail oriented and demonstrated accuracy; excellent writing skills preferred. 

EDUCATION:

• Juris Doctorate required  

Compensation Package_Perks of being a Netradyne employee: 

• Salary + eligibility for yearly bonus  
• Company equity
• Company Paid Health Care, Dental, and Vision Coverage for you and most of your dependents
• Generous PTO and Sick Leave
• 401(K) with generous company match
• Disability, Life Insurance and Ancillary Benefits
• And much more!