Senior Legal Counsel, Cloud Solution Counseling

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YOUR FUTURE ROLE
 
The Cloud Solution Counseling Team within SAP’s Legal Department is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel with several years of IT and cloud software law experience, with an emphasis on advising product development and engineering teams on legal and regulatory topics.  This role involves serving as the primary legal advisor and business partner to one or more SAP Cloud Solution Areas.  You will provide proactive support in the areas of product development, commercialization, and regulatory compliance.  When specialized topics arise (e.g., regulatory, data protection, or security), collaboration with other experts within SAP Legal will be particularly important.  Prompt and consistent communication with clients and other stakeholders is also crucial to success.  Routine tasks you can expect in connection with this role include, but are not limited to:

 

• Providing comprehensive legal advice on cloud product development topics and new business models
• Acting as the key legal contact for SAP cloud development units on regulatory and legal requirements
• Internal networking and collaboration with various internal teams and stakeholders, such as Global Regulatory Legal, Technology Law, Field Legal, Cyber Legal, and DPP Legal to ensure consistent and comprehensive legal advice
• Helping to develop product, operations, and infrastructure processes and protocols to ensure consistent compliance across SAP’s Cloud Solution Areas
• Evaluations of new cloud product features and functionality, as well as new solution offerings, including MVP and beta releases
• Conducting data usage and data protection and privacy analyses
• Review and support of cloud solution commercialization
• Drafting and maintaining components of SAP standard contracts and advising Field Legal colleagues with respect to customer product-related inquiries
• Collaboration with related teams on inbound licensing and OEM topics
• Advising on the full product lifecycle – from early development, through commercialization, to product sunset and feature retirement
• Collaboration on co-innovation or proof of concept engagements​​​​​​​
• Creating and conducting training on legal topics

 

 

YOUR PROFILE    

 

• JD and qualified to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction
• Minimum of seven (7) years of IT law experience providing product counseling related to cloud software development and commercialization, either at a law firm and/or in-house attorney role
• Highly curious self-starter who can collaborate in a geographically distributed hybrid team environment
• Excellent communication skills and willingness to serve as a proactive business partner to clients
• Confidence in sharing what you know – humility in admitting what you still have to learn
• Willingness to keep an open mind, but balanced with a dose of skepticism to ensure you approach issues thoughtfully while seeking to minimize risk for the business
• Solution-oriented advisory competence; experience with negotiation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a bias toward action
• Ability to initiate and manage projects to completion

 

ABOUT THE TEAM
 
The Cloud Solution Counseling team advises on a broad range of topics related to the development, commercialization, and regulatory compliance of SAP’s cloud solutions. The team’s mission is to serve as a trusted partner to each SAP Cloud Solution Area by providing solution-oriented legal advice – also in relation to cross-solution topics - with a bias toward action, and helping SAP remain innovative while minimizing risk. The team helps SAP bring innovative, high quality, and legally compliant solutions to market, by offering practical, programmatic, and consistent legal guidance to help minimize legal risk. It also supports implementation of standards defined by SAP Legal as a whole.

 

 

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