Associate Corporate Counsel

The Associate Corporate Counsel provides legal analysis and advice on a range of legal issues, primarily focusing on commercial contract law. This role involves reviewing, drafting, and negotiating contracts with customers and vendors, ensuring accuracy, and minimizing corporate exposure. The counsel will also coordinate with various internal departments, assist with corporate entity management, and prepare legal documentation, all under the supervision of a senior managing attorney.

Must Have

• Review and respond to internal commercial contract requests for new contracts, amendments, or other documents
• Review exceptions or modifications to standard commercial contracts
• Effectively negotiate basic to moderately complex terms and conditions with customers or vendors
• Identify issues requiring basic legal review and coordinate with internal functional departments
• Provide a point of contact for Sales and other personnel regarding contract and business issues
• Ensure accuracy of commercial contracts, amendments, and renewals
• Assist with drafting legal responses to customer Request for Proposals
• Assist paralegal(s) with the management of corporate entities
• Prepare basic correspondence, contract file documentation, and internal memoranda
• Handle ad hoc contract-related work assignments from Legal management

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation
• Flexible/remote work
• Leadership team committed to fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and transparent organizational culture

Syniverse is the world’s most connected company. Whether we’re developing the technology that enables intelligent cars to safely react to traffic changes or freeing travelers to explore by keeping their devices online wherever they go, we believe in leading the world forward. Which is why we work with some of the world’s most recognized brands. Eight of the top 10 banks. Four of the top 5 global technology companies. Over 900 communications providers. And how we’re able to provide our incredible talent with an innovative culture and great benefits.

Who We're Looking For

General Summary

This position reports directly to a senior level managing attorney and is responsible for providing basic legal analysis and advice across a broad range of legal issues of minimal to moderate complexity under general managing attorney supervision to the various functional departments of the company and provides basic legal services as required. This role requires a good working knowledge of common law legal concepts with respect to contract law and general contract drafting procedures.

Some of What You'll Do

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review and respond to internal commercial contract requests for new contracts, amendments to existing contracts, or other documents, which will require:
• Review any exceptions or modifications to standard commercial contracts, effectively negotiate basic to moderately complex terms and conditions with customers or vendors to address and resolve concerns and minimize corporate exposure with assistance from senior legal counsel as necessary.
• Identify issues of general scope requiring basic legal review and timely coordinate with internal functional departments (e.g., Sales, Product Management, Customer Service, Finance, etc.) as appropriate, and managing attorney, as needed.
• Provide a point of contact for Sales and other personnel with regard to contract and other document and business issues.
• Ensure the accuracy of the company’s commercial contracts, amendments and renewals for assigned area of responsibility.
• Assist with drafting legal responses to customer Request for Proposals.

Perform the following:

• Assist paralegal(s) with the management of corporate entities at direction of managing attorney.
• Prepare basic correspondence, contract file documentation, and internal memoranda for review by Legal management.
• Handle ad hoc contract-related work assignments from Legal management.

Job Requirements:

• JD degree from an accredited U.S. law school.
• Membership in good standing with the Florida Bar or approved in-house counsel status from the Florida Bar.
• 2+ years of commercial transactional law practice (in-house experience is a plus).
• Ability to read, interpret, draft, modify and negotiate legal documents, analyze legal situations, and assist senior counsel as assigned.
• Good business judgment and acumen.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, including basic negotiation skills.
• Ability to balance basic legal liability issues and commercial interests of the business.
• Ability to successfully facilitate basic business deals with minimal impacts on revenue.
• Strong personal computer skills.
• Ability to manage a large workload with daily supervision and effectively prioritize workload and work concurrently on various matters of basic legal complexity.
• Decisive, well organized, efficient and detail oriented.
• Demonstrated analytical, conceptual and problem solving skills.
• Enthusiastic, ambitious and friendly self-starter.
• Must work efficiently and effectively in an extremely fast-paced environment.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. It is not designed to be utilized as a comprehensive list of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Why You Should Join Us

Join us as we write a new chapter, guided by world-class leadership. Come be a part of an exciting and growing organization where we offer a competitive total compensation, flexible/remote work and with a leadership team committed to fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and transparent organizational culture.

At Syniverse connectedness is at the core of our business. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion among our employees is crucial to our success as a global company as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people who want to help us connect the world.