Corporate Counsel

About the role

The corporate counsel will focus on licensing, sophisticated commercial contracting, technology, and AI/emerging technologies. They will also play a key role in implementing the Company’s new Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage the full lifecycle of a wide variety of domestic and international commercial agreements, including technology, software, SaaS, AI and data-related agreements, e-commerce and digital platform agreements, and confidentiality agreements.
• Draft domestic and international retail store licensing and distribution agreements and third-party IP collaboration agreements.
• Advise on and support strategic technology partnerships and technology-enabled tools.
• Work with our Global Privacy and Technology Legal Manager to advise on technology governance, including responsible use, risk assessments, and related policies and training.
• Lead global CLM implementation and develop contract templates, playbooks, clause libraries, and approval workflows.

Requirements

• Doctorate Degree
• 7–9 years of relevant experience in a major law firm and/or in-house legal department.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills and sound business judgment, with comfort negotiating directly with stakeholders and working independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Significant experience with consumer products licensing and sophisticated commercial contracting.
• Substantive experience structuring and negotiating complex technology, SaaS, software, cloud, and AI agreements.
• Experience implementing or administering a CLM platform.
• Proven practical problem-solver and consensus-builder who takes ownership, exercises sound judgment in ambiguous situations, and is comfortable wearing multiple hats.

Qualifications

• J.D. and active California Bar membership.

Skills

• Business judgment
• Communication skills
• Contract drafting
• Negotiation skills
• Technology governance
• Technology partnerships
• Technology-enabled tools
• Consumer products licensing
• Sophisticated commercial contracting
• Complex technology agreements
• CLM platform implementation
• Practical problem-solving
• Consensus-building

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

Minimum $200,000.00
Maximum $240,000.00

Schedule

Full-time, on-site position based in Los Angeles