Senior Corporate Counsel

The Role

The Corporate Counsel will join an EMEA & APJ legal team, reporting directly to the Director, Legal APJ. You will have appetite for innovation as part of a small team in a fast-growing, multi-cultural environment, as well as willingness to learn and expand knowledge in the areas of privacy, competition and intellectual property. The successful candidate will be comfortable leading interacting with internal and external executives businesspeople, and making agile decisions that comply with company standards, policy and strategy as well as evolve Proofpoint practices.

Your day-to-day

• Partnering with the sales organisation internationally, providing guidance and counsel on customer related queries
• Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial, revenue-generating agreements (including NDAs, data privacy documents and Master Subscription Agreements)
• Provide legal analyses of applicable laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact customer license and services agreements, and assist in the design and implementation of appropriate policies and practices
• Collaborate with the broader legal team in enhancing its capabilities and services efficacy through technology and other legal operations tools and best practices
• Assist in development and implementation of various legal templates, forms, communications, and operational systems to improve the delivery and scalability of legal resources to a worldwide, distributed client base by working collaboratively with other legal team members and the sales organization
• Proactively communicate issues back to leadership and drive good business, legal and operational processes and practices throughout the organisation; drafting and implementing related policies, and seeking ways automate key legal processes

What you bring to the team

• Fully Qualified lawyer in an APAC country
• Experience in practice, and also ideally in-house experience in the High-Tech industry
• Ideally you will have experience of partnering with Sales teams in a fast-paced environment that requires client- interaction, sound judgment, excellent counselling skills and ability to prioritise
• Sound knowledge and understanding of the core principles of SaaS, Software, and Intellectual Property and/or licensing
• Experience handling data privacy and security issues Knowledge of use of AI to expedite reviewing, drafting and legal research
• Excellent negotiation skills and diplomacy, including ability to build consensus, “soft” skills to encourage, motivate and influence at all levels of the organization and those of our customers and partners
• Enjoy working with internal clients, demonstrating accountability, adaptability and resilience
• Strong drafting skills with keen attention to detail and the ability to improve our forms and work using customer or partner paper
• Effective communication and presence in person, in groups, over video and teleconference, email and in more formal documentation
• Highest degree of personal and professional integrity and ethics
• Fluent English and another APAC language a plus