Associate General Counsel

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Associate General Counsel
Responsibilities: Reporting to the General Counsel, responsible for partnering with business teams on structuring, drafting and negotiating various customer and vendor agreements to support achievement of corporate performance goals while advising on risk management, legal compliance and related considerations. Works directly with customers, vendors and business partners negotiating and drafting a wide variety of commercial agreements and advises the Contracts team on legal and compliance issues, including data security, protection and privacy matters. Prepare, review, and draft contracts and agreements, including client master service agreements, professional services agreements, SaaS and similar types of “as a service” agreements, license agreements, cloud service agreements, statements of work, vendor agreements and various standard business agreements. Take a leading role in complex customer negotiations on large global transactions. Identify and explain non-standard terms and associated risks to relevant business stakeholders and interpret contract requirements, obligations and risk exposure. Coordinate with other departments and specialists regarding: risk management, privacy, litigation, compliance, information security, and product/technology development. Provide advice and counsel to Contracts team and other stakeholders on legal issues as they arise in contract negotiations. Manage all phases of timely contract negotiation, drafting and processing from initial terms to final approval and maintenance in contract database. Improve efficiency and effectiveness of contract support while maintaining quality and consistency of contracts across the company following best practices, processes and procedures. Serve as point person to render counsel to staff on legal matters, as necessary, and provide counsel, strategic advice and business guidance on privacy matters. Provide guidance on compliance with global privacy and data security laws, regulations, industry standards, self-regulatory requirements, and best practices (primarily North America). Review and negotiate privacy and data security contract issues that arise in a wide variety of commercial transactions. Respond to consumer, regulatory and employee privacy and data security inquiries. Develop and deliver privacy, security and governance training and awareness programs. . Understand the technologies that create privacy and data security challenges and keep current on legislative, enforcement, judicial and regulatory privacy and data security developments to understand and communicate the effect of such developments on business. Ad hoc assignments / additional duties as designated by General Counsel.

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