General Counsel

Description:

An Identity Driven Enterprise Protection Company?puts people first.?From our customers and partners to our culture of engineers and experts, we understand that people are our assets. World-class thought leaders, distinguished engineers, and top technology experts contribute to the?An Identity Driven Enterprise Protection Company?culture that champions strategic vision, actualized expertise, intelligent and precise solutions, and continuous innovation. With teams across North America, EMEA and APAC, you'll be working alongside top global talent?from around the world.?
As a Duns 100 Top 20 Startup to Work for,?An Identity Driven Enterprise Protection Company?is focused on building a leading team.
We are looking for a General Counsel to add to the An Identity Driven Enterprise Protection Company Team?
The General Counsel of An Identity Driven Enterprise Protection Company will have overall responsibility for the vision and leadership of the Company's global legal strategy and management of legal risk and compliance. You will provide leadership and guidance on all legal matters and serve as a trusted legal counsel and strategic advisor to the Company's executive team. The role will provide leadership for the legal functions, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements as well as implementing decisions made by the executive team.
This position requires a leader with executive presence, a mindset for execution, a strong technology business background, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly growing and changing environment. Strategic, analytical, and innovative thinking are key in this role. The General Counsel must have a demonstrated ability to proactively develop practical, creative, well-reasoned solutions and strategies, satisfying both business and legal interests, as well as managing and scaling legal operations.
The ideal candidate must approach this role from an experienced business perspective and demonstrate a high degree of ethics and integrity, as well as strategic and conceptual thinking capabilities.?
Responsibilities:

• Closely partner with the CEO and the C-Suite and participate in the management of the company from a legal lens.
• Oversee corporate governance across multiple jurisdictions.?
• Supervise commercial contracts and technology transactions; develop best in class review systems, and cross collaboration with the business teams.?
• Oversee privacy and data security matters across multiple jurisdictions.?
• Manage labor and employment and litigation matters on a global scale.
• Provide legal advice in thinking about new product development and market expansion both domestically and globally.
• Oversee legal aspects of all mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, international entities, joint ventures, and other strategic partnerships and investments.?
• Provide advice and counsel on branding, trademarks, copyrights, and intellectual property matters.
• Ensure the availability and quality of competent, timely, and cost-efficient legal services, processes, and systems across the Company, including selection and retention of outside counsel.
• Responsible for the determination of when to engage outside counsel on all legal matters.
• Scale and develop a legal team and legal operation functionalities, processes and procedures.

Qualifications & Skills:

• J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school and excellent academic credentials.
• A current member in good standing of the New York or other US state bar.?
• 10+ years of relevant experience, including prior experience leading the legal function and team as GC or DGC of a technology company.? (Cyber Security Industry preferred)
• Strong ethics, integrity, credibility, professionalism, leadership, and judgment.
• Relevant industry experience (e.g., SaaS, cloud, software, cyber, and communications).
• Exercise outstanding judgment, legal reasoning, risk assessment, and business acumen.
• Ability and desire to work hands-on and with experience building a legal function and team.?
• Ability to provide effective, practical advice in the context of business objectives and to execute in a fast-moving culture.?
• Ability to calibrate risk to support innovation while appropriately protecting the Company.?
• Ability to effectively represent the Company externally with regulators, business partners, and service providers.
• Ability to work effectively with all levels and cross-functional partners, from executives to engineers.
• Ability to get in the weeds and see the overall broad view.
• Effective listener and relationship-builder.?

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