Manager - Legal - IT

- Execute global commercial sales transactions, with focus on US and India, including deal structuring, drafting, and negotiation across a range of areas including software, SaaS, PaaS, APIs, data analytics, and related integration and support services.

- Implement our contracting strategy and framework, including driving alignment, templates, negotiation positions, playbooks, deal desk, escalation approvals and training to close deals at scale.

- Drive intelligent transactional risk review and mitigation with ability to remove road-blocks, provide prompt resolutions, and facilitate transparency across cross-functional teams to enable well-advised decisions and approvals.

- Deploy the utilization of digital contracts systems and processes to enable digital and automated contracting processes and data driven negotiation. Draft, vet, review software licensing, enterprise agreements and related.

- Supervise Intellectual property (open source) filings, office actions. Advise on local legal and regulatory issues in US and Asia-Pacific, including in relation to Immigration, Employment and labor laws.

MUST HAVE

- Registered to practice as a lawyer in a major legal jurisdiction.

- 8+ years of legal experience at a leading law-firm and/or technology company.

- Extensive commercial contracting experience in enterprise on-premises software and for SaaS, PaaS, cloud, data and analytics, IoT and related services.

- Substantial experience with US and India laws, including areas involving software transactions, Immigration, labor and employment laws.

- Excellent legal writing and research skills.