Legal Counsel – Commercial & Technology Transactions
Job description
Legal Counsel role at Canonical, working on transactional matters in technology and enterprise software, including commercial contracts with customers and vendors worldwide. The role is remote in EMEA and AMER with the option of the London office.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA, AMER
- Languages
- English – business level
What you'll do
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts with customers and vendors in many countries across the globe
- Providing legal support to various internal clients across the company, including Canonical's sales organisation
- Interfacing with cross-functional teams to support company initiatives
- Utilising Canonical's contract management system to ensure accurate data is maintained for signed contracts
- Working with local counsel in many countries to seek and implement advice
What we're looking for
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- A degree in law, JD or equivalent, and active licence to practise law or current progress towards that
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Strong organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-cultural environment
- Effective both independently and as part of a team
- A passion for technology evidenced by personal initiatives and projects
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent drafting and presentation skills
- Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
- Appreciative of diversity; polite and effective in a multicultural multinational organisation
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Thoughtfulness and self-motivation
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Business level written and spoken English
- Sincere personal motivation aligned with our mission
- International travel 2-4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long
Nice to have
- Experience in commercial transactions, intellectual property, or corporate law
- Leadership and the ability to influence others to embrace new ideas or practices
- Understanding of the open source software community and values
- Understanding of the technology industry - silicon, data centers, PCs, connected devices, and software
- Experience working on in-house legal team and/or law firm
Your team
in-house legal team
Expanding in-house legal team; successful candidates will work closely with Canonical and external legal counsel in Europe and the Americas, and colleagues worldwide.
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Bi-annual compensation review
- Company recognition rewards
- 40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and our All Company holiday periods
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, with Priority Pass for lounge access
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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About Canonical
A leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. We are founder-led, profitable, and growing. Powered by worldwide distributed collaboration since our inception in 2004, we have no central headquarters. Most of us work from home, but we are exceptionally disciplined about this.
Mission
We believe tech and business leadership can emerge anywhere.
Key facts
- 1500+ colleagues
- 2004
- open source software and operating systems
- 1500+ colleagues in 90+ countries
- Very few roles based in offices
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Founder led, profitable and growing
- Privately held with the intention to list on a public exchange
- No central headquarters
- Ubuntu platform widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT
What they value
- Precise, taking care to deliver correctness and clarity
- Reliable, delivering high quality work that builds trust and confidence
- Accessible, collaborating to build products and systems that are usable
- Adroit, blending enthusiasm, knowledge, adaptability, style and character