Director Assistant General Counsel, Global Partnerships

Strength in Trust 

At OneTrust, we help businesses around the world to make trust a competitive advantage. Our category-defining enterprise platform enables organizations to operationalize trust across privacy, security, data governance, GRC, third-party risk, ethics, and compliance, and ESG.

The Challenge

We are looking for someone who is resourceful, action-oriented, and tech-savvy. This position will rely heavily on your ability to adeptly manage multiple, competing priorities and problem solve in a fast-paced environment. You are organized, work effectively across all levels, possess great communication skills,  and can shift gears at a moment's notice.  You have excellent judgment and can make sound decisions in a fast-paced environment. You enjoy the challenge of designing and building effective solutions and great teams.  

What You'll Do:

• Handle a wide range of commercial agreements including drafting, negotiating, and reviewing and advising on B2B SaaS reseller agreements, subscription agreements, strategic partnership agreements, online terms and conditions, professional services and consulting agreements, non-disclosure agreements, DPAs and others as needed.
• Act as a trusted advisor to OneTrust's global partner teams; providing business savvy advice on contracts, transactions and initiatives and aligning closely with business leaders to provide strategic advice that drives business results.
• Collaborate with counterparties such as partners and vendors on contract negotiations to enable business success.
• Develop,support and continuously improve templates, playbooks, and related contracting tools and processes.
• Identify other opportunities for improvement in processes, tools, templates, policies, training, knowledge management, risk, compliance, or other related areas to ensure the efficiency and velocity of customer, partner and vendor contracting. Help scale, design, and implement those improvements, and generally drive development of company policies, processes and procedures to help support a rapidly growing global business.
• Provide effective training to business stakeholders across the company, including training them on legal and compliance issues.
• Collaborate cross-functionally, including with Product, Sales, Marketing, People, Security, Finance, Support, Deal Desk, and Privacy, to provide practical and decisive guidance to support OneTrust's efficient execution of business critical tasks, acceleration of revenue generation and reduction of risk.
• Negotiate fair and market standard terms for confidential information, indemnification, liability, proprietary rights, security and data privacy.
• Have ownership and oversight of partner contract negotiations, making significant decisions regarding legal and compliance risks. Provide time-sensitive, practical legal and contracting advice to internal stakeholders on contract interpretation, risks and appropriate resolution strategy.   
• Conduct legal analysis and proactively recognize potential legal and compliance issues.
• Support the risk management function and regulatory compliance, including identifying and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Manage and assist with special projects.

Experience/Skills/Qualifications

• Strong technology background and experience with B2B / Enterprise SaaS products and SaaS transactional work.
• Flexibility and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment is required, you can prioritize responsibilities and deadlines for multiple projects and drive them to conclusion.
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity, with excellent judgment and analytical skills.
• 12+ years law practice in a law firm or in-house corporate legal department of a software or other technology company (SaaS experience strongly preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to influence across multiple businesses and legal functions.
• Comfortable working independently, adhering to established process, and able to recognize when you need guidance, and when to accommodate the business with flexibility.
• Thrives in a dynamic, ever-changing environment.
• Excited to drive contracts to closure and comfortable partnering with clients in sales, where you will work on multiple deals at the same time while meeting tight deadlines.
• Familiar with SaaS and related technology areas, including privacy and intellectual property.
• Operational experience with contract life cycle management systems, procedures, processes, and tools.
• Experience servicing as a primary point-of-contact and strong ability to collaborate cross-functionally & build enduring partnerships.
• Licensed to practice law and have a JD with current State bar admission in the U.S.