Senior Legal Counsel

The Senior Legal Counsel will be focused on negotiating drafting and approving enterprise and insurance SaaS and data licensing arrangements and supporting our North America insurance sales business. Where required this role will support other regions where our group operates and work on other legal and regulatory aspects for our corporate group. The candidate will be responsible for direct relationships with certain business leaders and sales verticals to help them achieve their projected targets.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the North American insurance sales organization and go-to-market efforts by:
  • Supporting and advising the insurance sales team on deal structure and contract negotiations including advising on legal risks and legal liabilities associated with contractual arrangements;
  • Representing Nearmaps interests and interfacing directly with opposing counsel and negotiation teams; and
  • Providing training to the insurance team in understanding the legal position and risk exposure;
• Draft review and negotiate external-facing product and vendor contracts;
• Attend to legal-related external customer support requests and enquiries;
• Identify assess and mitigate legal risk associated with new updated and/or discontinuation of products including updating standard terms as needed;
• Ensure compliance with applicable data privacy and other relevant regulations; and
• Collaborate on global legal projects lead by the Deputy General Counsel(s).

Qualifications :

• JD or equivalent degree admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law in the United States;
• 7 years legal experience with a combination of in-house experience (ideally within a SaaS environment) and law rm transactional experience preferred;
• trong experience in drafting and negotiating complex enterprise contracts preferably with companies in the insurance industry including but not limited to software licensing (SaaS - vendor side) licensing arrangements involving Sarticial intelligence machine learning and machine derived attributes and data privacy;
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced work environment and proven ability to address complex problems and business needs while reasonably balancing risk and not compromising on quality or work;
• Must be able to and be comfortable giving commercially-focused pragmatic legal advice in simple to understand language;
• Comfortable managing and responding to messages quickly and balancing multiple deals at one time;
• Strong interpersonal communication skills needed to be an eective business partner;
• Broad commercial and corporate law knowledge with a strong background of intellectual property law in a technology context licensing SaaS revenue recognition and privacy;
• Able to handle matters with minimal supervision;
• Able to work and act decisively in a fast-paced time critical environment while balancing risks; ;
• Openness to adapting practice in response to a uid and expanding product roadmap and company initiatives; and
• Procient in MS Oce suite of products and experience with systems such as Salesforce Conga JIRA and Slack preferred.

Additional Information :

Why youll love working at Nearmap:

We move fast and work smart; often wearing multiple hats. We adapted to remote working with ease and are continually looking at ways to improve. Were proud of our inclusive supportive culture and maintain a safe environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and can be themselves.

At Nearmap you can chart your own career path and see where our journey together might take you. With complex and fascinating work to challenge and inspire you you might be surprised by the opportunities you discover. Weve got so much more to sharecome and explore with us!

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time