Senior Legal Counsel

PacketFabric

Senior Legal Counsel

THE ROLE:

Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, the Senior Legal Counsel plays a significant role supporting PacketFabric’s legal and business operations. The Senior Legal Counsel will be instrumental in the Company’s success and substantial growth by providing advice and support to all aspects of the business. As Senior Legal Counsel, you must be a self starter, comfortable in a dynamic, ever-changing environment, and have a passion for exploration and problem solving.

While this role is a mid-level position reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, there is significant potential for advancement.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Review, draft, and negotiate contracts, including but not limited to, vendor agreements, MSAs, legal notices, amendments, addenda, and employment contracts.
• Collaborate with all functions of the business, with emphasis on the sales organization and ensuring that sales contracts are closed with speed and efficiency. 
• Manage outside counsel and assist to resolve disputes.
• Resolve disputes, by engaging in active listening, working internally with the applicable teams/groups to find the facts and understand the problems. Then develop and employ a strategy to advocate on behalf of PacketFabric.
• Provide general legal advice and support to multiple departments, including HR, finance, project success, global services, procurement, and others on an as needed basis.
• Manage the Company’s IP portfolio.
• Work with external regulators/ authorities to ensure the Company’s compliance with its legal obligations on a global basis. 
• Inputting and extracting contracts from the Company’s legal database.
• Perform other duties as assigned. 

WHAT YOU BRING:

• 7+ years of in-house legal experience negotiating commercial contracts and managing litigation.
• Telecom industry experience and a working knowledge of global privacy/ data protection laws is a plus.
• JD required and an active bar license for at least one US State.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to learn internal software and technology quickly.
• Ability to develop strong working relationships with other business units despite competing priorities and interests.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate professionally (written and oral).
• Ability to self-start and operate autonomously.
• Ability to analyze issues and recommend practical solutions that balance legal and business needs and risks.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, business judgment, and strategic thinking.
• Flexible, service-oriented mentality.
• Persistent attention to detail; and ability to operate in a fast-paced environment.

ABOUT PACKETFABRIC:

PacketFabric is the connectivity cloud. We built a global, 50+Tbps carrier-class optical network that is completely automated and consumable on-demand like SaaS, so enterprises can connect the core of their hybrid and multi-cloud architectures and grow their digital business.

We offer private and secure point-to-point, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and custom connectivity services that you can provision in minutes via our self-service portal or programmable API. We offer flexible consumption of our services, with month-to-month or longer terms, or even usage-based for bursting and disaster recovery.

PacketFabric was recognized with the “2020 Fierce Telecom Innovation Award for Cloud Services,” named one of the “10 Hottest Networking Startups of 2020” by CRN, a Futuriom 40 Top Private Company, and a “2020 Cool Vendor in Enhanced Internet Services and Cloud Connectivity” by Gartner.

PacketFabric is a distributed, fully remote team with people living and working all over the world.

WHAT PACKETFABRIC OFFERS:

• Remote first, globally distributed team
• The chance to disrupt the entrenched telecommunications infrastructure industry
• A supportive and optimistic team that likes to learn from each other
• A product development pipeline that’s constantly pushing new features and enhancing the quality of existing products
• The opportunity to work with many different industries and customer types
• A small company culture
• Great health, dental, and 401(k) for US residents

Here at PacketFabric, we want all of our employees to feel valued, appreciated, and free to be who they are. We provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and follow employment lifecycle processes designed to prevent discrimination against our people, regardless of gender identity or expression or intersex, sexual orientation, religion, spiritual beliefs, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, national origin, citizenship, generation, culture, or any protected category u