Corporate Counsel – Business Innovation and Corporate

Inside the Role

Our legal team seeks to hire a Corporate Counsel to support our Business Innovation and Corporate team who is a strategic thinker that is motivated to play a key role in our goal to lead sustainable transportation. The team is responsible for supporting the growth of our connected, autonomous and electric mobility product offerings. On the business innovation side, you will negotiate joint development, licensing and other technology and general business transactions. On the corporate side, you will perform the role of Assistant Corporate Secretary, support mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions, and partner with DTNA's business and strategy teams to develop new and innovative approaches for market growth.

You will need to work proactively with cross-functional peers to help achieve common goals and objectives. Success in the role will require a high level of collaboration with stakeholders from various product groups, engineering, IT, treasury, strategy, members of our legal and compliance team, external counsel, and our headquarter groups based in Germany. The Corporate Counsel must approach the work with the goal of improving processes and outcomes.

You will excel in this role if you are analytical, well organized, a flexible and inclusive communicator, think proactively, possess good business sense and a growth mindset. The successful candidate will be a creative problem solver and will apply principled legal analysis with a blend of common sense, sound judgment, and creativity.

We Take Care of Our Team

Position offers a starting salary range of $136,000.00 - $173,500.00 USD 

Pay offered dependent on knowledge, skills, and experience​ 

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Benefits include annual bonus program; 401k company contribution with company match up to 6% as well as non-elective company contribution of 3 - 7% depending on age; starting at 4 weeks paid vacation; 13+ calendar holidays; 8 weeks paid parental leave; employee assistance program; comprehensive healthcare plans and wellness programs; onsite fitness (at some locations); tuition assistance and volunteer paid time off; short-term and long-term disability plans.

What You Drive at DTNA 

Business Innovation:

• Assist in the creation, drafting, review, and negotiation of technology-related contracts, including inbound/outbound licenses, joint development agreements, and joint industry projects.

• Advise and counsel a diverse client base on data related issues such as the collection, storage, use and security of data, as well as monetization opportunities and business models.

• Review and assess questions or concerns related to open-source software, SaaS, Daas, PaaS, and DBaaS products.

• Create playbooks and training materials to enable fellow legal team members as well as members of the engineering, product and procurement teams to address common commercial transaction and commercial terms questions, including data issues and product development concerns.

• Revise and develop policy and procedure documentation relating to commercial transactions, internal data use and management, and implementation of new software tools.

• Prepare and maintain applicable data ownership and security related contract forms and/or clauses in collaboration with our commercial legal team.

Corporate:

• Assist in the drafting, review and negotiation of merger and acquisition transaction documents, as well as, joint ventures and other partnership agreements.

• Assist due diligence activities in support of merger and acquisition activities and financial programs of the Daimler Truck Group, which may require on-site meetings with the Company’s management, discussions with the Company’s auditors and outside counsel, and review of material agreements and other documents.

• Review, advise, and negotiate banking or other financial instruments, such as corporate guarantees, bond indemnity agreements, intercompany and third-party loan agreements, ISDA schedules, FX forward transactions, ultimate beneficiary designations forms, collateral agreements, etc.

• Participate in Private Placements under Rule 144A, Credit Facilities, the Euro Medium Term Program, Commercial Paper Programs of Daimler Truck Group, External or Internal Factoring, as well as Canadian Domestic Bond placements with assistance of outside counsel.

• Advise on enforcement of internal or external poli