Associate Corporate Counsel, Emea

4 months ago


Reading, United Kingdom Proofpoint Full time

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing
- We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business._

Corporate Overview

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

Role

The Associate Corporate Counsel will join an EMEA & APJ legal team, reporting directly to the Senior Director, Legal EMEA. You will have appetite for innovation as part of a small team in a fast-growing, multi-cultural environment, as well as willingness to learn and expand knowledge in the areas of privacy, competition and intellectual property.

Your Day to Day
- Partnering with the sales organisation internationally, providing guidance and counsel on customer related queries
- Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial, revenue-generating agreements (including NDAs, data privacy documents and Master Subscription Agreements)
- Provide legal analyses of applicable laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact customer license and services agreements, and assist in the design and implementation of appropriate policies and practices
- Collaborate with the broader legal team in enhancing its capabilities and services efficacy through technology and other legal operations tools and best practices
- Assist in development and implementation of various legal templates, forms, communications, and operational systems to improve the delivery and scalability of legal resources to a worldwide, distributed client base by working collaboratively with other legal team members and the sales organization
- Proactively communicate issues back to leadership and drive good business, legal and operational processes and practices throughout the organisation; drafting and implementing related policies, and seeking ways automate key legal processes

What you bring to the team:

- Fully Qualified lawyer in the UK, Netherlands or other EU country
- Experience in practice, and also ideally in-house experience in the High-Tech industry
- Ideally you will have experience of partnering with Sales teams in a fast-paced environment that requires client
- interaction, sound judgment, excellent counselling skills and ability to prioritise
- Sound knowledge and understanding of the core principles of SaaS, Software, and Intellectual Property and/or licensing
- Experience handling data privacy and security issues
- Excellent negotiation skills and diplomacy, including ability to build consensus, “soft” skills to encourage, motivate and influence at all levels of the organization and those of our customers and partners
- Enjoy working with internal clients, demonstrating accountability, adaptability and resilience
- Strong drafting skills with keen attention to detail and the ability to improve our forms and work using customer or partner paper
- Highest degree of personal and professional integrity and ethics
- Fluent English is essential; plus fluency in Italian, Spanish, Arabic or Dutch language is beneficial

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
- If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us_


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