Assistant General Counsel

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About the Team

About the Role

The Assistant General Counsel U.S. Industries will drive optimization of our overall GTM Legal strategy oversee the development and delivery of legal terms that provide customer focused solutions and enable our strategic innovation and revenue growth objectives. This role will lead cross functional initiatives which align to our GTM strategy and support our strategic growth initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional judgment and business insight. They will be comfortable effective and persuasive in dealing with customers partners senior management business and legal partners. The candidate will lead as an innovative change agent to drive process and cultural innovation.

You will:

• Learn about Workdays product portfolio and how product differences impact contract negotiations.

• Serve as trusted legal advisor to the business on a wide range of business and legal issues.

• Identify assess and manage legal risk.

• Lead high value SaaS and professional services transactions including related order form SOW data processing security SLA BAA and AI terms.

• Provide support for RFP responses.

• Support customer migrations to new Universal MSA and other customer base matters including disputes M&A assignments and add-on subscriptions.

• Collaborate with leaders across the sales organization to support strategic growth initiatives.

• Innovate and operationalize the legal approach and legal strategy Healthcare and new types of strategic relationships.

• Provide proactive strategic advice and guidance to internal teams regarding business and legal issues and risks.

• Assist in implementing legal efficiencies to support the Healthcare business unit and improve our contract processes and operations in that segment.

• Help build and improve contract templates and negotiation playbooks and provide internal training Healthcare sales services operations contract operations and the broader GTM legal team on how we can create a streamlined contract experience.

• Partner effectively with deal operations sales finance revenue recognition risk management product legal privacy security and contracts operations as well as managing external legal counsel as required.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

J.D. Degree and membership in at least one U.S. State bar

15 years of experience as a practicing attorney in a law firm or in-house legal department

10 years of specific experience supporting and negotiating in (or with) regulated industries preferably healthcare financial services and insurance

Deep experience supporting customer-facing transactions preferably with enterprise software/SaaS professional services Business Associate and AI transaction experience

CIPP/E Certification and/or deep understanding of complex global data privacy and security laws and principles

Additional Qualifications:

Exceptional contract negotiation and drafting skills comfortable and adept at teaming with leadership in fast paced customer facing transactions

Strong ability to influence advise and advocate for the business interests.

Exceptional written and oral communication skills enabling effective communication with legal and non-legal audiences at all organizational levels.

Exercises superior judgment and in tune with complex needs of the business to advise clients in an effective and creative manner.

Cultivates internal and external relationships and leads project collaboration with cross-functional networks.

Collaborative team-oriented player with a greater good mindset. Ability to manage a high volume of transactions simultaneously.

Consistently applies strategic focus critical thinking and problem solving by appropriately weighing legal risks and business objectives.

Anticipates identifies and analyzes legal risks and exercises sound judgment and effective techniques to drive solutions without guidance.

Proactively seeks out and leads legal projects using strong organizational and project management skills; drives and leads process improvements using best practices.

Willingness to drive creative solutions build efficient processes and make sound decisions; not afraid to challenge the status quo or identify and drive change.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to geography experience skills job duties and business need among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

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