We are seeking a curious, creative, business-minded lawyer to join the Group Function Legal Affairs team at Ericsson, supporting the Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions (EEWS) business. You will play a key role in EEWS's commercial growth across EMEA and APAC, providing legal support to sales, marketing, operations, and finance teams. The role requires legal expertise in technology transactions across a variety of industries and markets, and we will value your experience with data privacy and AI law, as well as your knowledge of global SaaS, hardware, and software industry trends.
You will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders across the globe, supporting a wide variety of legal matters including commercial and technology transactions, commercial disputes, regulatory compliance, and strategic initiatives. You will also contribute to global initiatives, process improvements, and playbooks to help EEWS scale for growth. This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments and is excited to both support and challenge the business across diverse legal domains.
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What You Will Do
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial and technology agreements, including SaaS, software licence, hardware, strategic alliance, OEM, reseller, distributor, managed service provider, non-disclosure, and marketing agreements.
- Provide practical, business-oriented legal guidance on commercial contracting, data privacy, cybersecurity, AI, and regulatory compliance matters across EMEA and APAC.
- Develop, maintain, and improve legal playbooks, contract templates, and contracting processes to increase efficiency and support a growing organisation.
- Educate and train internal teams on legal, compliance, and contracting best practices to support informed and efficient decision-making.
- Contribute to strategic initiatives that advance EEWS's global growth strategy, business objectives, and innovation agenda.
- Collaborate with legal colleagues and cross-functional stakeholders globally to align legal strategies with business priorities and key initiatives.
- Anticipate changes to, and advise on, relevant laws and regulations impacting EEWS's commercial activities.
- Build strong internal and external relationships while balancing the needs of EEWS's business strategy, commercial objectives, and legal risk.
- Perform other legal responsibilities as requested from time to time.
Your Qualifications
- You are a qualified lawyer, admitted or licensed to practise law in a recognized jurisdiction, with the ability to serve as in-house counsel advising on commercial transactions across multiple regions.
- You have a minimum of 5 years of post-qualification experience as a fully licensed, practising lawyer (excluding training contracts, articles, pupillage, clerkships, or any other pre- or post-admission training period), with at least 2 years working in-house at a technology company, and substantial experience supporting SaaS, hardware, and/or enterprise software transactions.
- Solid understanding of commercial contract law and experience negotiating commercial and technology transactions.
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and tackle unfamiliar legal issues.
- Excellent communication skills, business acumen, and organizational skills.
- A collaborative mindset and strong interpersonal skills.
- Intellectual curiosity, a willingness to both support and constructively challenge the business, and a desire to grow across legal disciplines.
- A proactive, roll-up-your-sleeves approach to problem-solving, a bias toward action, and a good sense of humour.
Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting a publicly traded company and/or a global, multinational organisation.
- Familiarity with privacy laws and/or experience doing business with government customers is a bonus.
- Experience with export controls, trade compliance, or sanctions regimes relevant to cross-border technology transactions.
- Familiarity with indirect sales channel program structures, including reseller, distributor, and MSP arrangements.
- Exposure to telecom or wireless industry regulatory frameworks.
- Experience with hardware-related legal matters, including supply chain, product warranty, or manufacturing agreements.
Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
What happens once you apply? Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.
Primary country and city: United Kingdom (GB) || London
Req ID: 789533
Skills Required
- Qualified lawyer admitted or licensed to practice law in a recognized jurisdiction
- Ability to serve as in-house counsel advising on commercial transactions across multiple regions
- Minimum 5 years of post-qualification experience as a fully licensed practicing lawyer
- At least 2 years of in-house experience at a technology company
- Substantial experience supporting SaaS, hardware, and/or enterprise software transactions
- Strong understanding of commercial contract law
- Experience negotiating commercial and technology transactions
- Excellent communication, business acumen, and organizational skills
- Collaborative mindset and strong interpersonal skills
- Experience supporting a publicly traded company and/or global multinational organization
- Familiarity with privacy laws and/or experience with government customers
- Experience with export controls, trade compliance, or sanctions regimes
- Familiarity with reseller, distributor, and managed service provider arrangements
- Exposure to telecom or wireless industry regulatory frameworks
- Experience with hardware-related legal matters, including supply chain, product warranty, or manufacturing agreements
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Ericsson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage options are described as broad, with multiple medical plan choices (often three) plus dental and mental health resources. U.S. materials also reference PPO and HDHP options, and some teams contribute to HSAs.
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Retirement Support — U.S. postings outline a 401(k) with an automatic 3% company contribution plus matching that reaches 4% when employees contribute 5%. This combination is repeatedly listed in role postings and characterized as strong for the sector.
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Parental & Family Support — U.S. job descriptions frequently cite up to 16 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid parental/adoption leave at 100% pay. These benefits are positioned as exceeding many U.S. corporate policies.
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Ericsson builds the digital connectivity the world relies on. Our technology underpins the mobile networks, platforms, and systems that billions of people, businesses, and societies depend on every day. We are a global leader in communications technology, delivering mobile network infrastructure, cloud software, and wireless connectivity solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide. Our networks support connectivity across 180+ countries, helping power everyday communication as well as critical digital services at global scale. Connectivity has evolved far beyond consumer mobile use. Today, nearly 80% of the world’s population accesses the internet via mobile networks, and Ericsson is helping shape what comes next. We are advancing 5G and 5G Advanced, developing network APIs that open connectivity to the global developer ecosystem, and applying automation and AI to make networks more intelligent, efficient, and resilient. Ericsson was the first company to launch live 5G networks on five continents, and our 5G platform is now commercially live in 150+ networks across 60+ countries. We also support more than 36,000 enterprise customers, enabling secure, high-performance connectivity for industries such as manufacturing, aviation, logistics, utilities, and public safety, where reliability and performance are mission critical. Innovation is central to how we work. Ericsson has approximately 28,000 employees in research and development, backed by one of the strongest intellectual property portfolios in the industry with 60,000+ granted patents. Our engineers, researchers, and technologists work across 100+ global R&D sites, helping define how networks evolve and how digital infrastructure is built for the long term. As the world moves toward a mobile-first, AI-powered, and cloud-driven future, connectivity becomes the foundation for digital transformation across every industry. Ericsson is building that foundation, shaping the future of digital connectivity through technology that operates at global scale and supports real-world impact, today and for what comes next.
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