Senior Corporate Counsel

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • $185,000 PA - $200,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Smarsh is seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel with at least 5 years of experience to join their legal team, focusing on global data privacy and product support. The role involves negotiating various agreements, including SaaS, software, partner, and vendor agreements, primarily for enterprise and midmarket customers in financial services and the public sector. The candidate will collaborate with internal departments like Legal, Information Security, Sales, and Finance, as well as external customers and vendors. Key attributes include initiative, good judgment, attention to detail, quick learning, and a team-player mentality. The company values innovation, collaboration, diversity, and provides opportunities for professional development.

Must have:

JD from ABA accredited program
Active bar member
5+ years experience negotiating complex tech transactions
Excellent communication skills
Excellent time-management skills
Proactive and team-oriented

Good to have:

Experience in regulated industries
Public sector experience
Experience with Fortune 500 companies
Experience in a firm and in-house legal department
Keen interest in negotiation strategy
Familiarity with databases and Office 365
Salesforce and JIRA experience

Perks:

Lifelong learning opportunities
Innovation with purpose
Humility and humor in culture
Collaboration focus
Work with popular communications platforms
Work with leading cloud infrastructure platforms
Utilize AI/ML technology
Global organization valuing diversity
Opportunities to be authentic
Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards

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Job Details

Who are we?

Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines. Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.

Summary

Smarsh is seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel with 5+ years of experience to join our growing legal team – with a specific focus in global data privacy and product support. The Senior Corporate Counsel will have a key role negotiating transactions for the company. The qualified candidate will have knowledge of the enterprise software industry and the experience to engage internally with Legal, Information Security, Sales, and Finance and externally with prospective customers and vendors on company agreements, customer agreements, and vendor agreements.

The chosen candidate will show initiative, possess good judgment and attention to detail, and will be a quick thinker, quick learner, hard worker, and most importantly, a team player. We work collaboratively at Smarsh at every turn, and our successes and failures are shared. We are always trying to improve our work and our team. We will provide regular feedback, and we will expect you to provide the same. Note: Location preference is within the US - Eastern Time zone.

How will you contribute?

Negotiate complex SaaS and software agreements including information security and privacy agreements for enterprise and midmarket level customers, primarily in financial services and the public sector.
Negotiate Partner Agreements and support the partner team.
Negotiate vendor agreements for products and services that support the business.
Confer with sales, customer success, professional services, finance and other departments on relevant terms; understand when and how to escalate as needed.
Interact regularly with sales team and executive team to support transactions.
Work efficiently and effectively internally and externally to speed transactions to close
Interact daily with legal team; maintain open communication; collaborate to achieve common and cross-functional goals.
Other duties as assigned.

What will you bring?

JD from an ABA accredited program; active bar member in any state.
5+ years negotiating and managing complex technology transactions, preferably for entities in highly regulated industries; public sector experience is a plus. Ideal candidate will have experience representing or negotiating with Fortune 500 companies and have experience working in a firm and in-house legal department.
Keen interest in negotiation strategy and deal design; proven experience using interest-based negotiation techniques.
Excellent communication skills: comfortable in various modes of communication – phone, chat, email.
Excellent time-management skills: ability to handle multiple projects and demands at one time.
Proactive; can-do personality.
Team-oriented nature and approach; ability to build solid, positive working relationships.
Confident, emotionally mature, resilient.
Detail-oriented; open to feedback on work product.
Comfortable and calm under pressure.
Technical knowledge; familiarity and comfort using databases and Office 365 tools; Salesforce and JIRA experience helpful

The above range represents Smarsh's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting. Any applicable bonus programs will be discussed during the recruiting process.

The salary for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, location, specialty and training.

Local cost of living assessments are done for each new hire at the time of offer.

About our culture

Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.