Legal Counsel

The Legal team is looking for a Legal Counsel to provide legal advice and assistance throughout our organization, with a particular focus on the Australia and New Zealand regions. You will independently and autonomously perform a full range of legal services and maintain a diverse workload, but your primary focus will be on negotiating a wide variety of contracts, including in-licensing agreements, software licenses, SaaS agreements, hosted managed services agreements, and professional services agreements.

As a Legal Counsel, You Will

• Work with internal groups including Sales, R&D, Finance, Professional Hosting and Services, and other departments to structure customer proposals and agreements.
• Prepare and negotiate transactional agreements with customers, including license agreements, professional services agreements and hosted managed services agreement
• Review and negotiate in-licensing agreements and procurement contracts with SAS vendors.
• Advise technical and business development teams on legal matters through stages of product development.
• Manage legal business matters pertaining to SAS as assigned.
• Provide a variety of general corporate and commercial legal services to in-house clients.
• Regularly interact with senior internal and external individuals.
• Research and analyze proposed transactions, assess risks and rewards, and recommend strategies to minimize risk to the company.
• Lead contractual negotiations and interact regularly with senior internal stakeholders and external counterparties.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of four plus years of related experience.
• Law Degree from an accredited law school.
• Professional working proficiency in English.
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to convey positions and concepts persuasively to legal and non-legal audiences.
• A seasoned, experienced and creative professional with a full understanding of area of specialization.
• You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.