Associate Corporate Counsel, Global Partner Ecosystem, Strategic Partnerships
Associate Corporate Counsel, Global Partner Ecosystem, Strategic Partnerships
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Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
Holidays: 13 paid days per yearNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Seattle, WA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- JD, LL.B., equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status) in the state in which the position is located.
- 3 years of attorney experience negotiating, drafting and advising clients on technology-related commercial agreements.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience advising clients in structuring complex commercial transactions.
- Experience in drafting and negotiating a wide variety of commercial agreements, including intellectual property licenses, data licenses, partnership agreements, hardware agreements, services agreements and custom development agreements.
- Ability to manage several simultaneous projects under deadline pressure.
- Ability to grow in an ambiguous, quickly changing environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills.
About the job
As Corporate Counsel at Google, you work on the most exciting legal issues as disruptive technological innovations require creative and proactive legal guidance. You're part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You are collaborative -- ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with Googlers from all over the company. As an integrated part of the team, you proactively assess legal risks and advise on products that will not only move information into the 21st century, but move information law forward as well.
In this role, you will support the Cloud Strategic Business Development team in structuring, drafting , and negotiating Cloud's most strategic and complex partnerships. You will work closely with the business and other cross-functional teams in structuring and bringing to life bespoke agreements establishing multi-year partnerships to broaden Google Cloud's product offerings and position in the market.
20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.Responsibilities
- Review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of complex commercial agreements with large, sophisticated enterprise partners, including strategic partnership agreements, inbound and outbound OEM agreements, hardware agreements, intellectual property licenses, and data privacy agreements.
- Advise business development managers in structuring partnership transactions and developing and negotiating term sheets.
- Work with cross-functional teams to drive consensus and find solutions to novel legal issues that arise in transaction negotiations.
- Provide legal advice to non-legal stakeholder teams, such as strategic business development, product, sales, finance, engineering, marketing, and communications, summarizing and communicating legal concepts and risks in a way that is meaningful and actionable for these teams.
- Support the continuous improvement of standard form agreements and legal processes. Manage agreements that comply with company policies and risk tolerance.
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