Legal Counsel, Licensing and Strategic Sourcing

Legal Counsel, Licensing and Strategic Sourcing

Ready to make a tangible impact on global industries as a strategic legal partner? Trimble is looking for a proactive and pragmatic Legal Counsel to help us navigate complex licensing, strategic sourcing, and payment processing needs while driving our mission to connect the physical and digital worlds.

About Trimble

Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. Trimble empowers customers to drive productivity and progress with connected hardware and software solutions. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it is helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress. Trimble’s Legal team helps drive this as a strategic partner to the business, delivering proactive, pragmatic, and creative solutions through a risk-managed approach, and prioritizing execution and integrity to enable Trimble’s success.

What Makes This Role Great:

In this role, reporting to Trimble’s VP Legal, you will be more than just an attorney; you will be a key legal partner directly influencing Trimble’s business and operational excellence and driving business results. You will have the unique opportunity to partner with business teams and provide guidance on a critical segment of the business—licensing and global sourcing—to allow our business to thrive in a fast-paced, global environment.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

• Drive global innovation by drafting and negotiating sophisticated SaaS, cloud, and other commercial licensing and strategic sourcing agreements that power our business and digital transformation.

• Act as the primary internal legal advisor for Trimble’s payment processing relationships, providing high-level oversight and guidance to the Payments team.

• Provide strategic advice and direction to senior leadership, evaluating legal risks and identifying creative solutions to support business goals.

• Collaborate across business units to manage disputes and mentor contract professionals on complex legal negotiations.

Essential Skills & Experience

• You have 7+ years of legal experience with a deep focus on drafting and negotiating complex SaaS, payment processing, and commercial contracts.

• You hold a J.D. from an accredited law school and are in good standing with the bar in your state of employment.

• You possess exceptional negotiation and communication skills, with a proven talent for translating legal complexity into clear business solutions.

• Experience using AI in a business context to efficiently generate high-quality work product.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience within a large law firm or the in-house legal department of a global public company.

• Prior experience navigating legal challenges specifically within the tech or industrial hardware sectors.

Logistics

Location: Westminster, CO or Lake Oswego, OR (in-person at least 4 days/week)

Travel Requirement: Up to 5%

Why You'll Love Working With Us

At Trimble, we are not just a company that "does good"—we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow. You will work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you will be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.

Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We are a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work. Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. Y