Associate Commercial Counsel, Google Cloud Security Sales
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or Bachelor of Law (LLB), or equivalent practical experience.
- UK qualified solicitor, with experience in private practice and/or an in-house team.
- Experience in negotiating, drafting, and advising clients on technology-related commercial agreements, including multi-jurisdictional transactions and outsourcing agreements.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working as counsel in an in-house legal department or law firm supporting commercial/technology transactions for clients.
- Experience in drafting/managing services agreements, sales/license agreements, alliance agreements, business associate agreements, and intellectual property agreements.
- Experience structuring complex commercial transactions, representing an enterprise business and responding to commercial clients’ needs.
- Experience with cloud computing, cybersecurity, professional services, and privacy law, including advising on data privacy and technical security matters.
- Demonstrated contributions to the culture of your workplace and commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to manage several simultaneous projects under deadline pressure.
About the job
We are a team of lawyers supporting Google Cloud's efforts to accelerate every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business. Google Cloud has made security the cornerstone of its commitment to customers and users around the world – building cloud-native security into the foundation of its technology to block malware, phishing attempts, and potential cyber attacks at scale and growing its portfolio of security operations capabilities. This role is focused on providing agreement discussion support for Google Cloud’s growing cybersecurity sales and business teams. In this role, you’ll structure and discuss customer and partner agreements for newly acquired Cloud security products.
You will drive complex agreements with new and existing cloud customers/partners, draft nuanced and creative legal documents to meet customer/partner requirements, and serve as the main legal point of contact for security business teams in EMEA. You will have the opportunity to work closely with the extended team based in the US and with other cloud legal team members, regional legal teams, and a wide variety of internal stakeholders across Google. You'll also develop scalable agreement management processes and materials to improve efficiencies and effectiveness.
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 discuss a variety of complex commercial agreements, including cloud/cybersecurity services agreements, data processing agreements, professional services agreements, business associate addenda, and partner agreements with enterprise customers.
- Advise internal business clients, including Sales, Sales Operations, Finance, Product, Engineering, and other company colleagues, on legal issues and risks, approval processes, company policies and procedures, IP, and business strategy.
- Support the continuous improvement of standard form agreements and legal processes for customer, promoters, and partnership agreements.
- Contribute to transformation projects with the goal of increasing agreement velocity and efficiency.
