Cohesity

Legal Counsel – Commercial & Technology Transactions
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📅 Date Posted

Jan 29, 2025

💼 Job Type

CONTRACTOR

📍 Location

Reading

💵 Rate

Unknown

Description

Company Overview
Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design. Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

Position Overview
Cohesity + Veritas is coming soon. This combination will establish a significantly larger employee population, customer base and international footprint. This scale will naturally lead to an increased volume and complexity of commercial support requirements all over the world. We are seeking to bring in multiple commercial & technology transactions attorneys with a mix of levels of experience. All candidates should be interested in experiencing a fast-paced, fun and growing culture.

Job Description
Cohesity is seeking an outstanding lawyer with 5+ years’ legal experience to join our legal team sitting in the UK or Ireland. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about technology and self-directed learning, enjoys being challenged, and uses sound judgement in ambiguity. This position will support our rapidly growing sales team globally; as such requires flexibility to support time zones across the globe.

Responsibilities
- Negotiate and draft a high volume of complex technology sales and partnering transactions
- Handle various commercial contracts including confidentiality agreements
- Develop legal efficiencies to support sales teams
- Improve contract templates
- Provide internal training on negotiation playbooks
- Work closely with sales leadership on strategic initiatives
- Provide proactive strategic advice regarding business issues

Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of law firm or in-house legal work experience focused on technology transactions
- Law degree from a recognized university; license to practice preferred
- Specific experience in SaaS or cloud computing valued but not essential
- Adept at interacting effectively within customer-focused environments
- Strong critical thinking skills; proactive problem solver
- Excellent oral/written communication skills

Essential To Success
Willingness to be flexible supporting global time zones; ability to thrive under ambiguity; strong team player committed to personal growth.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Employer (EEOE)
Cohesity is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race or any other category protected by law.

In-Office Expectations
Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g., within forty-five (45) minutes average travel time) work out of core offices 2–3 days per week at their choosing.

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