Senior Counsel, Corporate and Securities

The opportunity
Unity is looking for a Senior Counsel, Corporate and Securities to join its Legal team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing legal support for corporate functions across our global organization. You will work cross-functionally with Unity’s legal, accounting, tax, treasury, investor relations, marketing and human resources teams and interact with all levels of the business. This role will report to the Vice President, Corporate Legal. This role will be based out of our New York or San Francisco offices.

What you'll be doing

• Support Unity’s public company compliance obligations including preparing disclosure documents, including periodic and current reports, and proxy statements.
• Refine processes and procedures to ensure compliance for Unity as a public company.
• Advise on affiliate trading matters, including Section 16 reporting and 10b5-1 plans.
• Advise on corporate governance matters, including developing board materials and updating corporate policies.
• Provide legal support for Unity’s global equity program, including managing securities law requirements, drafting equity plan documents and advising on structuring elements of our equity programs.
• Advise on legal aspects of corporate activities such as securities offerings, treasury activities and intercompany agreements.
• Oversee management of securities litigation.
• Efficiently manage outside counsel on a global basis.

What we're looking for

• JD from an accredited law school.
• 5-7 years of experience at a top law firm or corporate law department with a national or international presence, specifically in corporate, securities or capital markets experience.
• Knowledge of public company financial reporting rules and regulations relevant to securities law. 
• Ability to work directly with internal clients of every level of the organization.
• Excellent judgment, communication (verbal and written), organizational and interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively across multiple groups and functions. 
• Desire to think creatively and strategically to solve problems. 
• Ability to work independently and take initiative to get things done.
• Practical, business-focused mindset and willingness to dig into issues. Curious, with a sense of humor.

You might also have

• Prior in-house experience working with advertising, enterprise software, Internet or high-tech companies

Additional information

• International relocation support is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences.  Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.  

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.  

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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