Joining BDO as an experienced commercial/corporate lawyer providing legal advice and working collaboratively across varied legal areas. Enjoying hybrid work with a focus on work - life balance.
About the role
- Senior Legal Counsel providing commercial legal support for EMEA sales teams. Leading negotiations and ensuring compliance for SaaS contracts with major clients.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted advisor and business partner to all levels of Kong’s EMEA sales team, from VP to Account Executive
- Support our AMER and APAC sales team as needed
- Lead complex cross-border commercial transactions with sophisticated counterparties located across EMEA
- Review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of other commercial agreements
- Help ensure compliance with a variety of laws and regulations impacting our enterprise software and SaaS offerings, including intellectual property, privacy, security, compliance and government contracting
- Partner with Finance, Sales Ops and Deal Ops to support the end-to-end contract negotiation and close process
- Advise internal teams on legal matters and provide general commercial legal advice, as well as providing training and enablement to our growing Go to Market organization
- Assist in building out AI tools and processes to assist with our growth and scale
- And any additional challenges and tasks to help support Kong’s growth
Requirements
- Law degree, and member in good standing in England and Wales (or if France, CAPA and registration with local bar association)
- Experience with UK or US headquartered companies, and strong English technical drafting skills
- Minimum 4-6 years of experience practicing law both with a law firm and in-house (preferably with late-stage private and/or early-stage public technology companies)
- Demonstrated experience in negotiating and closing complex software and SaaS contracts with large, sophisticated customers
- Great judgment and bedside manner with customers, and an ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships within the company, with customers, and others
- Working knowledge of intellectual property, AI, data governance, EMEA regulation and privacy matters
- High professional and personal standards, and a commitment to inclusiveness
- Attention to detail and an ability to view legal issues within the context of business objectives
- A passion for team work, collaboration and customer success - at Kong we win together
Benefits
- Some limited international work travel will be required.
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
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