Contract Legal Counsel
Role & Responsibilities
DASSAULT SYSTEMES, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides businesses and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Serving over 250,000 clients in 11 industries, from high-tech to life sciences, fashion to transportation, we help businesses and people around the world to create sustainable innovations for today and tomorrow.
The Americas legal team is seeking a Contract Legal Counsel professional to support the company’s Americas operations. This person will work in our San Diego, CA office campus or Waltham, CA, reporting onsite 3 days a week in a flexible hybrid model.
- Manage, draft, and negotiate a range of complex commercial agreements, including software license and services agreements with customers and partners.
- Coordinate and manage contractual relationships with external customers, partners, and suppliers through completion.
- Act as an advisor on legal issues arising in the course of Company’s business, including issues related to contract interpretation, intellectual property, corporate policy, and regulatory compliance.
- Partner closely with sales and services, and finance teams to understand and implement applicable processes and business practices.
- Identify and report potential risks associated with customer-facing contracts and products.
- Negotiate contracts, propose creative alternatives, and protect the Company’s position to mitigate risk.
- Collaborate extensively and positively with sales, services, and other internal teams.
- Collaborate with members of the legal team to ensure conformity of contract terms globally.
- Draft letters, memos, departmental and/or company communications, and other legal documents.
Qualifications
- Juris Doctor from an accredited US law school
- 3-5 years of legal experience at either a law firm or in-house, or both
- Admission to Massachusetts Bar most preferred
- Work onsite at DS local offices; hybrid work schedule with 2 days remote
- Consistently demonstrates the highest level of integrity without compromise with regards to ethical standards
- Significant experience in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts, particularly with large, domestic, and international customers
- Flexible, able to quickly adjust to evolving internal and external customer requirements, including deadlines
- Highly organized with critical attention to details
- Ability to build relationships with internal clients and Legal Department along with the ability to work independently and/or within a collaborative team structure
- Positive, self-motivated individual with high level of enthusiasm and willingness to learn and incorporate coaching and instructions into daily tasks and assignments
- Strong functional use of Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Strong communication skills in two parts: very strong writing skills utilizing the rules of English grammar; verbally clear, concise, and grammatically correct oral (speaking) communication skills in English
Pluses, Not Required
- Experience in software industry or with software-specific agreements, particularly enterprise license or services agreements
- Experience supporting indirect sales channels
- Experience with government contracts
- In-house legal experience
- Experience with litigation-related matters
- General corporate law experience including corporate governance matters and mergers and acquisitions
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Compensation & Benefits
Dassault Systèmes offers an excellent salary with potential for bonus, commensurate with experience. Benefits include a choice of plans providing comprehensive coverage for medical, dental, vision care for employee & dependents as well as employee life, short & long term disability, tuition reimbursement, immediate 401K enrollment, 401K match (50 cents on the dollar, up to the first 8% of your eligible compensation that you contribute based on match eligibility criteria), flexible time off policy, and 10 paid holidays.
Salary Pay Transparency
Compensation for the role will be commensurate with experience. The total expected compensation range will be between $125,000 and $165,000, representing the base salary (or annualized salary based on estimated hourly compensation) and target bonus.