- Serve as a trusted legal and commercial advisor to other senior business and legal leaders.
- Coordinate all legal matters arising in applicable business unit.
- Coordinate complex legal and commercial deal reviews and escalations, taking a solution-oriented approach focused on providing, rather than seeking, direction.
- Ensure legal support needs are well-prioritized based on impact and urgency
- Collaborate with team of commercial attorneys and their workflow across U.S., Nearshore (Guatemala) and Offshore (India) in order to optimize legal support and "rate right, right role" pyramid structure.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide array of complex and high risk/high value technology transaction agreements.
- Provide and/or coordinate oversight necessary to ensure compliance with applicable regulations and company policies.
- Provide strategic counsel to help analyze and assess business processes, identify issues/risk and offer solutions.
- Help drive process improvement and efficiencies across the service lines and commercial contract teams.
- Advise on issues with varying degrees of risk, including potentially adversarial issues, arising under commercial agreements with customers.
- Collaborate with legal colleagues to assist in the development and maintenance of legal templates, playbooks, updated contracting policies, negotiation best practices, and escalation process/policy.
- Licensed attorney with a minimum of 7+ years' expertise in commercial transactions or M&A, preferably with both large law firm and at least one (1) year in-house commercial transactions experience.
- Ability to effectively and efficiently communicate with senior executives and business leaders.
- Experience in a wide variety of contract drafting and negotiations, preferably representing a client without significant contracting leverage.
- Experience with various deployment models relative to software and technology services (on premises, managed services, software-as-a-service, public/private cloud arrangements), system integration, or other commercial agreements with complex intellectual property, licensing, privacy, indemnity, and liability issues.
- Ability to work efficiently, meet demanding deadlines in a fast-paced environment, prioritize work, and adjust to frequent workload fluctuations across multiple time zones;
- Interest in working in a rapidly changing and diverse environment, with comfort navigating through ambiguous situations.
- Ability to train and manage attorneys as well as other legal and compliance professionals
- Ability to demonstrate and champion effective leadership behaviors.
- Commitment to promoting an ethical workplace culture and supporting compliance processes.
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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Director, America's Commercial Attorney - New York, United States - Cognizant Technology Solutions
Description
Director, Americas Commercial Attorney
Remote
At Cognizant, we have a diverse legal team working closely with business, sales and other corporate functions to help Cognizant deliver digital and information technology solutions for our customers around the globe. The work is fast-paced and dynamic; and it will continuously challenge you to learn and grow as an attorney.
Cognizant has an opening for a Director-level commercial counsel who will serve as a senior attorney for Cognizant's Americas Commercial Legal team, supporting a business unit's lead counsel and acting as a trusted point of contact for all commercial initiatives; driving transactions to execution and other matters to favorable results.
The candidate must have prior experience serving as commercial counsel for senior business leaders (up to SVP) and managing a variety of aspects of commercial contracting. The candidate should also have extensive experience supporting project bids, negotiating service agreements, strategic alliance and partnering agreements, net-accounting reseller agreements, joint ventures, data protection agreements, product development agreements, and other similar types of commercial
agreements with complex intellectual property, licensing, privacy, indemnity, liability, and associated risk allocation issues. The ideal candidate will have experience training and managing a team of support attorneys and SMEs situated around the globe, as well as significant front-line experience providing strategic counsel to effectively structure, negotiate and close transactions with Fortune 500 companies. Experience managing outside counsel is also preferred. The candidate must possess exemplary communication and organizational skills and should have prior experiencing interfacing directly with Fortune 200 company executives.
Job responsibilities include:
This position requires the following qualifications:
All candidates required to be licensed or have in house licensure in the state in which they work.
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $164,960-$215,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Information about Cognizant
Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses and improve everyday life. Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500; and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.
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