Associate General Counsel

Ready to become a Wriker?

Wrike is looking for an Associate General Counsel to work closely with its sales, marketing, and customer success teams. As part of your wide-ranging responsibilities, you'll offer commercial and privacy advice, negotiate transaction agreements, and push for process improvements. You'll thrive in this role if you have a background in commercial law or privacy, deep knowledge of various privacy regulations, experience in supporting marketing teams and commercial transactions, and a prowess for negotiation and effective communication. Your expertise will directly impact our business practices and product offerings, contributing overall to our company's growth and success.

How You'll make an impact

• Have broad responsibility for providing practical day-to-day commercial legal support globally for the sales, marketing, and  customer success teams
• Provide commercial and privacy advice and counsel to sales and marketing teams
• Collaborate with Product and Security teams on privacy issues that impact customer and vendor agreements and go-to-market initiatives
• Negotiate and independently identify creative legal solutions for commercial transactions, including customer subscription agreements, data processing agreements, and business associate agreements
• Support procurement team on negotiation of various vendor agreements with a focus on sales support and marketing technology tools
• Identify and independently pursue process improvements for both outbound and inbound transactions
• Develop and revise contract templates and processes, as necessary, based on changes in our product offerings, organization, and/or privacy laws
• Advise internal business partners regarding legal issues including compliance with the CCPA/CPRA and other U.S. state privacy laws, GDPR, e-Privacy Directive, and other privacy regulations

You'll achieve your best if you have 

• Admitted to a US state bar or licensed/qualified in an EU member state and in good standing
• 7+ years of combined experience practicing as a commercial and/or privacy attorney within a law firm or software technology company
• 2+ years in-house experience at a software technology company
• Privacy subject matter expertise, including privacy regulations (GDPR, e-Privacy Directive, CCPA, CPRA, etc.) and the ability to incorporate evolving requirements into customer facing agreements and sales/marketing business practices
• Experience supporting Marketing teams, including familiarity with marketing technologies and advertising technology tools and advising on related privacy issues
• Experience supporting commercial transactions, SaaS, and enterprise B2B transactions
• Strong negotiation and interpersonal skills, including ability to explain nuanced privacy concepts to internal and external parties and tailor approach to the audience
• Excellent drafting, written and verbal communication skills and ability to adapt legal requirements in balanced, creative and pragmatic ways to facilitate communication at all levels of the organization

You'll stand out with 

• Certified Information Privacy Professional or equivalent
• Prior experience with a fast growing, private technology company

Salary Range: $160,000.00 - $186,300.00 USD (base). 

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