Vice President, Corporate Legal

4 Weeks ago • 12-15 Years • Legal

Job Summary

Job Description

The Vice President, Corporate and Securities will lead a team advising on corporate governance, strategic transactions, and public company obligations. Responsibilities include preparing SEC disclosures, providing securities law advice, collaborating with various departments, refining compliance processes, managing affiliate trading, supporting the Board of Directors, advising on corporate governance, supporting the global equity program, managing stock administration, providing legal support for corporate activities, overseeing securities litigation, and managing outside counsel. This role requires excellent communication, organizational skills, and the ability to work collaboratively, with a practical, business-focused mindset.
Must have:
  • JD from an accredited law school
  • 12-15+ years of experience in corporate, securities, or capital markets
  • Knowledge of public company financial reporting rules and regulations
  • Excellent judgment, communication, and interpersonal skills
Good to have:
  • Prior in-house experience with advertising, enterprise software, or high-tech companies

Job Details

The opportunity
Unity is looking for a Vice President, Corporate and Securities to join its Legal team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the team responsible for advising on a broad range of general corporate and securities law issues in support of Unity’s corporate governance, strategic transactions and obligations as a public company. 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 reports to the Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer of Unity, and will be located in either our New York or San Francisco Offices.

What you'll be doing

  • This role will advise in connection with a range of matters, including corporate governance, corporate secretary support, strategic transactions, capital markets transactions, executive compensation, stock administration, and public company reporting and compliance, including:
  • Lead Unity’s public company compliance obligations including preparing SEC disclosure documents, including periodic and current reports, and proxy statements.
  • Provide securities law advice and compliance guidance for earnings releases, investor materials,management presentations and other communications
  • Partner with the CFO organization, including Accounting, Finance, Investor Relations, Tax and Internal Audit as well as the CPO organization, including Total and Executive Compensation.
  • Refine processes and procedures to ensure compliance for Unity as a public company.
  • Manage affiliate trading matters, including Section 16 reporting and 10b5-1 plans.
  • Providing legal support to Board of Directors and Board Committees, which includes advising on substantive legal matters; developing meeting agendas, and preparing materials for Board/Committee meetings.
  • Act as Assistant Corporate Secretary for the Company.
  • Advise on corporate governance matters 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 and executive compensation matters.
  • Manage the company’s stock administration function.
  • Advise on legal aspects of corporate activities such as securities offerings, treasury activities and intercompany agreements.
  • Subsidiary management.
  • Oversee management of securities litigation.
  • Advise on structuring and documentation on M&A or investment transactions, as applicable.
  • Manage the corporate securities and equity operations team.
  • Efficiently manage outside counsel on a global basis and within budget.

What we're looking for

  • JD from an accredited law school.
  • 12-15+ 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

  • Relocation support is not available for this position.
  • Work visa/immigration sponsorship 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 Unity.

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.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this Web site or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity.

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*Note: Certain locations require a good faith disclosure of the base salary range for the role. The actual salary for the successful candidate may differ based on location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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