Senior Corporate Counsel

Job Title: Senior Corporate Counsel

The Elevator Pitch

 Evolv is seeking an innovative and enthusiastic Corporate Counsel to join the Legal Team of a mission-driven company with an industry-disrupting technology.

 This role will be essential in advising Evolv on a variety of interesting and complex legal matters and will have a broad range of responsibilities including providing legal guidance on go-to-market and strategic initiatives as well as handling contract negotiations with strategic partners, channel partners, customers, and vendors.  Your proactive, and solution-oriented approach will be valued as you effectively manage legal risks and foster strong relationships with internal stakeholders, while promoting a culture of continuous learning and integrity. 

 As the fifth attorney on the growing Legal team reporting to the VP, Deputy General Counsel, your ideas and contributions will make an immediate impact.

Success in the Role: What are performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

 In the first 30 days, you will:

·Participate in “EvolvED”, a weeklong orientation program for all new employees.

·Understand the organizational structure and responsibilities within Evolv. 

·Develop an understanding of Evolv’s products and services, including commercial contracting lifecycle, CLM tool, product roadmap, and go-to-market strategy.

·Embrace Evolv’s mission-driven culture of making the world a safer place to live, work, learn, and play. 

 Within 3 months, you will have:

·Developed a deep understanding of Evolv’s business strategies and contributed to the legal strategy designed to support these objectives.

·Cultivated strong relationships with internal and external business partners, including Evolv leadership, while working on corporate strategic initiatives such as deals with professional sports teams and other iconic venues. 

·Drafted and negotiated commercial contracts that accurately reflect business objectives and manage risks, including Service Agreements (with a focus on SaaS), vendor/supplier contracts, technology contracts and partnership/channel agreements. 

 By the end of the first year (if not before), you will:

·Be seen as a trusted advisor who provides practical, business-oriented legal advice and strives to find creative solutions that will help the business grow while managing risk. 

·Have helped to lead the development and roll out of a comprehensive compliance program tailored to the needs of the channel partner organization. 

·Collaborated with colleagues to build and scale innovative processes for streamlining commercial transactions. 

·Have supported the readiness and release of products or features by identifying and driving resolution to varied legal issues related to commercial terms, IP, and other related legal and regulatory areas. 

·Have participated in special projects that challenged you and provided the opportunity to learn new areas of the law. 

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

 ·Draft and negotiate commercial contracts, identifying those aspects of an agreement or transaction that matter most to the business, and being proactive and pragmatic in addressing potential issues.  Examples of agreements include strategic transactions and partner agreements, license agreements, SaaS and professional service agreements, data processing agreements, and vendor contracts.

·Leverage your deep knowledge and expertise regarding Evolv’s products and features to ensure Evolv’s commercial contract templates and related policies are accurately maintained and updated. 

·Assist in the development of legal resources such as templates, playbooks, policies, and training materials. 

·Support the business in other areas as needed based on business needs including data privacy, ethics & compliance, and IP.

·Monitor legal and regulatory developments that are relevant to Evolv’s business, think ahead, see around corners, and help prepare for and minimize risks that may arise in the future.  

·Depending on interest, career goals, and experience, may also assist on various other legal projects in different functions that will inevitably arise at a rapidly growing company.    

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team?

You will be joining Legal team and reporting directly to the Deputy General Counsel and will also work closely with the General Counsel. 

The team culture is one based on building trust, collaboration, on-going development through kindness, authenticity, courage, drive, and fun!

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