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Legal: Senior Counsel (San Mateo, CA)
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Picture yourself building a successful career at NetSuite—working alongside other talented, driven individuals to help fast-growing mid-size organizations and larger enterprises achieve their business goals with the world's #1 cloud-based business management suite for ERP/financials, CRM, ecommerce and more.
Founded in 1998 by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and NetSuite CTO and Chairman Evan Goldberg, NetSuite (NYSE: N) is used by more than 10,000 companies and subsidiaries to run mission-critical operations without the high capital costs and inefficiency of antiquated client/server systems. Named by Gartner as the world's fastest-growing financial management vendor and winner of a prestigious 2011 CODiE award for Best Financial Management Solution, NetSuite is where business is going.
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Summary:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to do cutting edge legal work providing legal support for NetSuite's technology transactions, primarily for business development transactions and product alliances, with significant exposure to all functional areas. There is potential for expansion of duties and greater responsibilities as the business requires with the opportunity to make a significant impact on the development of the legal department at NetSuite as we ramp to meet support NetSuite's rapidly expanding business. This person would interact with a diverse group of colleagues worldwide at all levels of the company, and will report to the VP, Legal & Associate General Counsel.
Responsibilities:
Reviewing, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, focusing on licensing, technology, supplier and platform developer programs. Undertake projects as required to support business alliances and technology development programs and agreements and advise internal clients of program rights and obligations. Manage and support a variety of SAAS/Cloud transactional and compliance issues, including sales and services, data privacy, open source, and customer disputes. Candidates should work well in a fast-paced, challenging environment as part of a dynamic team of professionals, and have the ability to communicate effectively in group settings and before senior management.
Qualifications/Skills:
- JD from top tier law school with excellent academic credentials and California bar member (or qualified to register as in house counsel)
- Minimum 7–15 years of law firm and/or in-house legal experience, three of which should be at top tier law firm
- Some in-house experience strongly preferred
- Strong technology licensing knowledge and experience and the ability to use it creatively
- Able to manage and drive issues and projects cross-functionally across departments, including managing visibility to management and legal department
- Able to handle multiple matters simultaneously and prioritize effectively
- Evaluate issues from legal and business perspectives with a practical, business-oriented approach to problem solving
- Excellent written, oral and negotiation communication skills
- Service-orientation and commitment to professionalism
- Sense of humor and strong interpersonal skills
- Interested in and comfortable with technology
