Senior Legal Counsel (Interim)

About the role

This is an opportunity to join a small in-house legal team of a rapidly-growing company with global reach. Within a highly collaborative and supportive team, this role offers the chance to work in a fast-paced commercial environment, with responsibility for a wide range of legal matters.

The Senior Legal Counsel (Interim) will support the General Counsel and the rest of the Legal & Compliance Department in overseeing the legal and compliance aspects of the company’s business, advancing company objectives while mitigating risk. The role will help safeguard the company’s reputation by ensuring adherence to laws, rules, and policies, and will provide effective and practical legal advice across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Assist US-based General Counsel in planning and development in support of evolving the legal function
• Work with the legal team in Ireland and support a follow-the-sun working methodology
• Draft, negotiate, and review a wide range of commercial contracts with customers, partners, and service providers; provide support to more junior members of the legal team
• Provide accurate and timely counsel to company employees on a variety of legal topics (including commercial contracts, privacy and data protection, policies and procedures, corporate governance, intellectual property, employment law, etc.)
• Apply effective risk management techniques and offer proactive advice on legal aspects of commercial transactions
• Communicate, negotiate, and resolve issues with colleagues and external parties, establishing relations of trust
• Deal with complex matters involving multiple stakeholders
• Maintain the highest standards of personal and professional integrity and responsibility
• Keep current on updates and changes in applicable rules and legislation, and develop expertise in new areas of practice
• Work closely with the General Counsel and rest of the Legal & Compliance Department to ensure consistent and reliable support to the organization

The role will focus on day-to-day legal operations in two distinct areas: deal oversight and support (customer commercial transactions), and conventional legal aspects such as intellectual property, data privacy, ESOP, and corporate governance.

Requirements

• US qualified lawyer with at least 8 to 10 years post-qualification experience in related areas of the law, especially commercial contracts (technology/SaaS)
• Highest standard of professional ethics and integrity
• Demonstrated drive, enthusiasm to learn, and ability to work well in a dynamic team environment
• Solid understanding of commercial law and the commercial consequences of legal issues
• Sound judgement and ability to analyze situations and information
• Outstanding organization and communication skills
• Enjoy working closely with your team and the camaraderie it brings
• Work collaboratively toward and achieve team/corporate goals
• Innovate and solve problems creatively and quickly, exhibiting a “think outside the box” approach

About Everseen

Shrink and inefficiency cost global retailers more than a hundred billion dollars each year. Everseen is changing that equation. We are a leader in vision AI, transforming business operations for global retailers by reducing shrink, improving operations, and delivering a better customer experience.

Supporting 11 of the top 20 global retailers, Everseen’s AI innovations help retailers save millions of dollars every month. Its flagship product, Evercheck, is deployed in 10,000 retail stores and 150,000 checkouts globally. Everseen operates at unmatched scale, processing over 15 million transactions and more than six petabytes of video data daily.

Trusted by major food, drug, mass, and specialty retailers around the world—including Kroger, Meijer, and Woolworths—we also partner with leading hardware, AI, and cloud computing providers such as Google, NVIDIA, NCR, and Dell.

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Cork, Ireland, Everseen has over 700 employees globally, with a European headquarters in Cork, Ireland, a U.S. headquarters in Miami, and hubs in Romania, Serbia, India, Australia, and Spain. We are a dedicated team of inventors, research scientists, engineers, AI experts, and retail industry veterans.

Culture

Our culture is built on accountability, collaboration, and high standards. We take ownership of outcomes, prioritize our customers, operate as one team, move quickly with purpose, and continually raise the bar in everything we deliver.

• We OWN THE OUTCOME. No silos, no excuses.
• We ARE CUSTOMER-FIRST. They guide our decisions.
• We ARE ONE TEAM. Debate, decide, commit.
• We MOVE WITH PACE. With simplicity and quality.
• We RAISE THE BAR. On talent, innovation, and impact.

Commitment

Everseen is committed to creating an environment where everyone can succeed. Our employees should feel a sense of belonging, have an opportunity to grow their careers, and feel free to be their most authentic selves. We take great pride in the diversity of our global workforce and insist upon a safe, inclusive workplace where our differences are our collective strength.

We treat each other with dignity and respect and require all employees, officers, and directors to seek to understand the importance and value of diversity and inclusion. Everseen is committed to a safe environment for all employees and has a zero-tolerance policy for bias and discrimination of any kind. Our work environment prohibits offensive, hostile, or intimidating conduct, whether verbal, written, or physical. Everseen will not tolerate prejudice or discrimination based on aspects such as race, color, sex, gender, religion, age, family status, disability, or sexual orientation.

Interim basis of 4 months (possibly to be extended).