Legal Counsel

17 hours ago

Gerrards Cross, United Kingdom Causeway Technologies Full time

Legal Counsel

Gerrards Cross

Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?

Purpose

The Legal Counsel will provide day to day legal support to the business. They will work closely with sales and product teams to ensure that business strategies align with legal requirements and ethical standards in a fast-paced environment.

By advising on product development and contractual agreements, internal counsel helps mitigate legal risks while supporting innovation and agility.

Reporting to the General Counsel and forming part of the Legal & Compliance team – a UK based team supporting a predominantly UK business with some developing global operations.

We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide day-to-day legal support to the business as required, either directly, supporting the General Counsel or by managing support from external counsel.
  • Advise the business on various legal issues with a particular emphasis on software licensing including SaaS, data protection and AI.
  • Providing practical legal support to our Sales teams to enable them to conclude licensing, services and other commercial contracts, including conducting negotiations with customers and their legal advisors.
  • Draft, negotiate and/or review a wide variety of customer, vendor and strategic business partner contracts.
  • Draft, review, and negotiate agreements specifically related to AI technologies and data protection, ensuring compliance with current and emerging regulations and best practices.
  • Provide assistance with respect to any acquisitions or other corporate activity, including due diligence and post-acquisition business integration.
  • Collaborate with and coordinate closely with other members of the Legal, Sales, HR, Procurement, Development, IT and Marketing teams, to drive desired outcomes.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally and globally to anticipate and assess emerging legal risk areas across the company, resolve issues and mitigate risks. Contribute to the Legal team’s knowledge sharing practices.
  • Prepare reports for our executive management team regarding contract escalations and various legal issues.
  • Assist in handling disputes.
  • Handle other Legal matters as needed to help our business achieve its desired outcomes.
  • Conduct legal research and analysis to stay updated on relevant laws and regulations affecting the technology sector.
  • Ensure that management are briefed on relevant legislative and legal changes affecting the business.
  • Assist in developing and implementing policies and procedures including AI, data protection and other legal matters.
  • Provide training to Sales and Customer Success Teams on customer contracts.

Key Skills and Qualities

  • Proven ability to produce high-quality work product in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
  • Adaptability, comfort with uncertainty and continuous change, and an openness toward cross-functional development.
  • High degree of integrity and ability to instil trust.
  • A goal-oriented team player with excellent strategic and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal issues to non-lawyers.
  • Strong business skills and good business judgment.
  • Good issue spotting and analytical skills.
  • Strong legal drafting skills with a meticulous attention to detail.
  • Motivated self-starter with the ability to manage a transaction to completion and proactively anticipate issues or problems that may arise.
  • Ability to work individually and as part of a team.
  • Ability to understand and adapt to different cultures quickly.
  • Excellent time management and project management skills, with the ability to manage / prioritise multiple matters and balance quality with expedience.
  • Good interpersonal skills and ability to develop solid working relationships with all levels within the business, external counsel, vendors and customers.
  • Demonstrate a desire to learn and develop.
  • Proactive and always looking at ways to improve things, with the confidence to make suggestions.

Experience and Qualifications

  • 2+ years of commercial/IT legal and compliance experience at a recognised leading commercial law firm or as part of an in-house team.
  • In-house legal experience is in the technology sector is desirable.
  • Excellent knowledge and practical application of general commercial law and legal issues relating to the provision of IT products and services.
  • A clear understanding and practical experience of SAAS & UK/EU data protection legislation.
  • An understanding and interest in AI and legal technology.

What you get from us:

If you're looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. We believe everyone at Causeway has a vital role to play in our success. Causeway is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition.

Our team is everything, so we’ll take good care of you. In fact, we give well-being the same priority as our other business goals. We’re strong advocates of work-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.

Benefits

As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars.

  • 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.
  • 4% matched pension.
  • Income protection and life assurance.
  • Access to our award-winning benefits platform.
  • We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.
  • £100 allowance towards a fitness club.
  • Dell discounts.
  • Private Medical Insurance.
  • Paid study leave + volunteering days.
  • Car Scheme.

Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.

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