Senior Legal Counsel, State/Local Government and Education

undefined ago • 5 Years + • Legal • $165,000 PA - $254,100 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

HP Inc. is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to support end-user sales transactions in the United States, primarily focusing on State, Local, and Education (SLED) customers. This role involves providing legal expertise for HP's portfolio, including Hardware, Software, Support, and Managed Services. The counsel will act as a lead attorney on complex Managed Services deals, draft and negotiate contracts, support competitive bids, and resolve contract disputes. The position requires a proactive individual with strong legal judgment and communication skills to advise business teams on legal issues and risk assessment.
Must have:
  • Provide legal expertise for HP Inc. portfolio for end-user customers.
  • Act as lead attorney for legal strategies and risk assessment on complex Managed Services deals.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to business teams on legal and business issues.
  • Draft and negotiate legal contract terms.
  • Provide legal support for competitive bids.
  • Identify and resolve complex legal issues.
  • Lead or assist with contract disputes with existing customers.
  • Plan and provide training to internal clients on legal topics.
  • Exercise independent judgment in developing methods and criteria.
  • Contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas.
  • Support Legal’s commitment to continuous improvement.
Good to have:
  • Experience supporting deals with State, Local, and Education (SLED) customers preferred.
  • Experience representing a major IT company on contracts matters a plus.
Perks:
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Long term/short term disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Flexible spending account
  • Life insurance
  • 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave

Job Details

Description -

HP Inc. creates technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere. Through our portfolio of printers, PCs, solutions, and services, we engineer experiences that amaze. We believe in the power of ideas. Our vision is to produce technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere – every person, every organization, and every community around the globe. This motivates us – inspires us – to do what we do. To invent, and to reinvent. To engineer experiences that amaze. To set the standards as a socially and environmentally responsible company. While HP’s roots started in Silicon Valley, today we have a broad reach that spans around the globe. If you have a passion for customers, a desire to win and innovation in your DNA, you may be a great fit for our team. More information about HP Inc. is available at http://www.hp.com.

The HP Legal team is responsible for all of HP’s legal matters, including government relations, brand security, intellectual property, ethics and compliance and legal counsel representation in every region. We are a mix of attorneys and non-attorneys. We value teamwork, engagement, honesty, forward thinking and open communication. We are proud of the culture we have created. By bringing together varied perspectives, we challenge each other and develop new and creative solutions. We want to find, grow and keep the very best employees in industry by valuing differences, offering amazing careers and having fun.

The Senior Legal Counsel will primarily support end-user sales transactions in the United States, as well as take on projects as necessary within the North America Legal team.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a talented and experienced contracts attorney with experience in end user sales. The successful candidate will be able to expand their skills working with a highly experienced and talented team. The position is an individual contributor role.

In this role you will:

  • Provide legal expertise in support of the entire HP Inc. portfolio for end-user customers, specifically Hardware (PC and Print), Software, Support and Managed Services.
  • Act as lead attorney supporting the overall legal strategies and assessment of risk on large, complex Managed Services deals, working closely with account and pursuit teams and other stakeholder groups.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to the business teams on legal issues and legal impact of business issues.
  • Draft and negotiate legal contract terms; identify business issues for business team support.
  • Provide legal support for competitive bids, including responding to end-user legal terms.
  • Identify and resolve complex legal issues requiring in-depth consideration of multiple factors.
  • Lead or assist with the resolution of contract disputes with existing customers.
  • Plan and provide training to internal clients on designated legal topics.
  • Routinely exercise independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and criteria for achieving objectives.
  • Contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas.
  • Support Legal’s commitment to continuous improvement by identifying and leading solutions with Legal and internal clients to improve quality.

The successful candidate will have:

  • A Juris Doctor from a nationally recognized law school plus an active bar membership from any of the fifty states or the District of Columbia.
  • 5+ years of relevant legal experience (from a combination of law firm, government, and/or in-house experience) in the area of public sector contracting.
  • Experience supporting deals with State, Local, and Education (SLED) customers preferred, but not required.
  • Experience representing a major IT company on contracts matters a plus.
  • Prior negotiation experience in complex transactions.
  • Subject matter expertise on key legal topics including liability, indemnities, intellectual property and privacy/data protection.
  • Knowledge of industry norms and of the legal and business issues unique to IT products and services.
  • Practical, independent judgment, initiative, and self-confidence.
  • The willingness and ability to solve challenges; ability to work with minimal direction and supervision; proactive, not reactive; and be able to thrive in change.
  • The ability to have proactive and effective communications of valuable information to clients and colleagues.
  • Capability to escalate issues effectively to high-level legal, account and business executives.
  • Adopted a growth mindset approach.
  • The ability to travel as needed.

The pay range for this role is $165,000 to $254,100 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits:

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Long term/short term disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Flexible spending account
  • Life insurance
  • Generous time off policies, including;
  • 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

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About The Company

Our vision is to create a world where innovation drives extraordinary contributions to humanity. This vision guides everything we do, how we do it, and why we do it.

Our technology – a product and service portfolio of personal systems, printers, and 3D printing solutions – was created to inspire our vision and we are doing everything in our power across climate action, human rights, and digital equity to make it so.

We believe thoughtful ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time. And all it takes is one to change the world.

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