Cohesity

Legal Counsel – Commercial & Technology Transactions
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📅 Date Posted

Jan 29, 2025

💼 Job Type

CONTRACTOR

📍 Location

England

💵 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 is seeking an outstanding lawyer with 10+ 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 and requires flexibility to support time zones across the globe.

Responsibilities
- Negotiate and draft a high volume of complex technology sales and partnering transactions.
- Draft a variety of other commercial contracts including confidentiality agreements, license agreements, data processing agreements, professional services agreements.
- Develop and implement legal efficiencies to support sales channel business development teams.
- Improve contract processes operations; create contract templates negotiation playbooks.
- Provide internal training to sales operations legal operations.
- Work closely with sales leadership deal management company leaders on strategic initiatives supporting all business verticals customer-facing transactions.
- Provide proactive strategic advice regarding business legal issues risks.

Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of law firm/or in-house legal work experience preferably focused on technology transactions.
- Law degree from a recognized university; license to practice in the United States United Kingdom/or an EU member state (exceptional candidates without this license may be considered).
- Specific experience in SaaS cloud computing enterprise software data privacy highly valued but not essential.
- Adept at interacting effectively in a highly customer satisfaction focused environment.
- Demonstrated competencies as a critical thinker proactive problem solver willing to roll up sleeves drive creative solutions.
- Excellent oral written interpersonal communication skills; detail-oriented excellent organizational skills ability manage multiple transactions projects simultaneously under deadline pressure.
- Demonstrated exceptional judgment integrity ability think strategically give practical advice weighing legal business objectives appropriately.

Essential To Success
- Willingness to be flexible supporting time zones across the world.
- Ability thrive situations rarely clear-cut or by-the-book; nimble inventive willingness go beyond comfort zone essential success.
- Strong team player able work well with business colleagues high pressure situations committed personal growth development actively seeking feedback responding action.

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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 color creed religion sex sexual orientation national origin nationality ancestry age disability gender identity expression marital status veteran status any other category protected by law.

Accommodation Information
If you are an individual with a disability require reasonable accommodation complete any part application process limited ability unable access use online application process need alternative method applying contact us at 1–855–9COHESITY [email protected] assistance.

In-office Expectations
Cohesity employees who are within reasonable commute (e.g., within forty-five (45) minute average travel time) work out core offices 2–3 days week choosing.

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