General Counsel
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JobgetherTechnology software
The role is remote within EMEA time zones., EMEA time zonesFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Languages
- Outstanding written and verbal English skills
- Experience
- Substantial senior in-house legal experience
Requirements
- Demonstrate exceptional academic performance at secondary-school and university levels.
- Hold a law degree or equivalent qualification and an active license to practice in an EMEA or Americas jurisdiction.
- Bring substantial senior in-house legal experience in a global technology or software business with complex international operations.
- Have proven experience leading distributed legal teams, including managing managers across regions and time zones.
- Have experience building, scaling, or restructuring an in-house legal function and deciding which matters to handle internally or through external counsel.
- Bring strong experience negotiating and managing commercial technology agreements, including enterprise software, subscription, channel and reseller, hardware manufacturer, and cloud services agreements.
- Have deep understanding of open-source licensing, including permissive and copyleft licenses, and practical familiarity with open-source communities and operating models.
- Have experience with, or demonstrable readiness for, public-company governance, including listing preparation, Board and committee support, disclosure requirements, and internal controls.
- Have significant expertise in at least two of data protection and privacy, intellectual property and trademarks, export controls and trade compliance, competition law, or disputes.
- Demonstrate strong judgment, constructive challenge, accountability, and the ability to communicate difficult positions.
- Have outstanding written and verbal English skills, including legal drafting, presentation, and executive communication capabilities.
- Be willing and able to travel internationally approximately two to four times per year for company events lasting up to two weeks.
Responsibilities
- Lead the global Legal and Compliance function across EMEA and the Americas, establishing its structure, priorities, standards, service expectations, and operating model.
- Build and manage a distributed legal leadership team, including hiring and developing managers and maintaining performance standards.
- Establish legal intake, prioritization, workload management, risk reporting, and executive visibility processes.
- Own legal readiness for a future public-market environment, including governance, entity structures, delegated authorities, disclosure controls, and records.
- Advise senior executives and the Board on significant legal, regulatory, commercial, governance, and risk matters.
- Own the commercial contracting framework, including standard agreements, negotiation positions, escalation processes, and controls.
- Lead intellectual property and open-source licensing strategy, including copyleft and permissive licensing, trademarks, and software distribution.
- Own the global compliance program across privacy, export controls, anti-bribery and corruption, competition law, and emerging AI regulation.
- Manage litigation, disputes, and regulatory engagements, and oversee the external counsel network, scope, quality, and budget.
- Provide legal guidance on M&A, partnerships, strategic alliances, financing, and other major corporate initiatives.
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