Job Overview
This is an exciting time to join a dynamic organization in a fast-paced growth phase. As Assistant General Counsel, Commercial and Product, you will lead our Legal team in Asia Pacific, supporting commercial and product initiatives, and providing strategic partnership and legal expertise to senior stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
* Partner closely with sales, customer success, partnerships, product, engineering, marketing, security, finance, and other business teams on commercial, product, and data protection-related matters.
* Advise product and engineering teams on issues related to the development and rollout of new products and features for our governance, risk, and compliance platform throughout the entire product development lifecycle.
* Identify legal issues in product development plans and customer agreements, and work with the appropriate teams to create solutions and minimize risk.
* Manage the drafting, negotiating, and maintenance of various commercial and technology-related agreements.
* Draft, negotiate, and review commercial contracts and negotiate with customers, vendors, and partners.
* Work with internal clients to advise on negotiation strategy and ensure the contemplated legal terms will meet business needs over the long term.
* Establish relationships with stakeholder departments, including Sales, customer success, marketing, finance, product, engineering, and security.
* Contribute to risk assessment/mitigation, develop new approaches to legal issues to support our business goals, and communicate sound, understandable legal and business recommendations.
Requirements
* 8-10 years of post-qualification experience.
* Substantial commercial legal experience at a top law firm and in-house at a SaaS company.
* Experience in managing staff and leading a team, with a proven ability to develop legal strategy, define objectives, and make business-critical decisions.
* Expertise in drafting and negotiating a wide variety of commercial agreements typical to the technology sector.
* Ability to work collaboratively with sales, finance, marketing, security, product, and IT teams in a growing organisation.
* Excellent communication skills.
* Practical experience in SaaS contracting and an advanced knowledge of commercial, contract, and privacy law.