Senior Counsel, Product

 

 

Who we are... 

Verra Mobility Commercial Services is a global leader in smart mobility, creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for millions of vehicles around the world through connectivity with hundreds of tolling and issuing authorities. As a future focused organization, we are looking for people who want to create relevant solutions today that will work tomorrow ensuring more people around the world reach their destination safely and easily. 

Culture

Verra Mobility Corporation is a rapidly growing, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values—Do What’s Right, Lead with Grace, Win Together, and Own It—in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow aggressively, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with these five core competencies: bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.

Position Overview:

Join the Verra Mobility as Senior Counsel, Product, and you will join a dynamic legal team that operates in true partnership with our innovative business teams.  This role will report to the Deputy General Counsel of the Commercial Services unit, and be responsible for providing both product team and general commercial legal support critical to the business unit.  Your work will span a wide range of legal subject matters, and each week will bring fresh and varied challenges.  You will ensure that current and future products and services achieve our business objectives and customer expectations through close collaboration with sales, product, operations, and innovation professionals.  We are a legal team that celebrates our responsibility for driving growth and success for our company. If you thrive in fast-paced environment, and in a business focused on profitable, rapid, and sustainable growth, then this opportunity is for you.

Essential Responsibilities:

The successful individual will need to be able to work independently and manage a high volume of legal assignments, including product counsel duties, commercial & vendor contracts, legal research, compliance matters, disputes, product issues, and special projects. The role is ideal for someone that loves being a lawyer but also enjoys business, appreciates process orientation, makes risk-adjusted decisions, loves winning, and accepts shared accountability for the metrics of commercial success.

The responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• While collaborating directly with our business teams tasked with developing and launching new products and feature enhancements you will be:
  • Advising on and optimizing legal risk, and compliance considerations, while suggesting creative, business-supportive solutions;
  • Operating as first-level review of privacy policies, terms, user agreements, and ensuring they are aligned with product strategy and anticipated use cases;
  • Issue-spotting potential legal challenges, and running them to ground; and
  • Proactively identifying and anticipating emerging legal and regulatory issues that might impact our products and services.
• Additional duties include:
  • Drafting, negotiating, and managing commercial contracts, licensing agreements, NDAs, channel marketing agreements, vendor agreements, etc.;
  • Creating and updating template agreements, and supporting the continuous improvement of contractual standards in response to changes in law and the organization’s business needs;
  • Spotting potential privacy issues, and, working with our Data Protection Officer, provide business-oriented resolutions;
  • Collaborating with IP counsel on patent and other IP related matters;
  • Assisting with litigation matters, and other regulatory or stakeholder disputes;
  • Assisting with employment matters, as needed;
  • Managing outside counsel, as required;
  • Developing strong collaborative working relationships with colleagues, and business stakeholder;
  • Supporting the Deputy General Counsel, Commercial Services with day-to-day legal management and workflow;
  • Supporting other legal team leaders with special projects, as needed;
  • Handling the occasional fire drill.

Qualifications:  

• JD from an accredited law school and in good standing with a state bar association;
• 5+ years as a practicing attorney with an emphasis on commercial matters and/or prior experience as a product counsel at a technology-focused organization; 
• Excel