Associate Counsel

Summary

Join MINT MOBILE as an Associate Counsel to support the Business & Legal Affairs team in managing contract life cycles, reviewing and drafting contracts, and improving internal contract policies. The role is remote and requires a JD or equivalent experience.

Requirements

• Bachelors or Advanced degree; JD preferred
• 3+ years’ experience in a transactional or contracts-based practice (e.g., law firm, corporate legal department, or government legal department setting)
• 3+ years’ experience reviewing, negotiating and drafting commercial B2B contracts
• Equivalent combination of education and experience
• Knowledge of contract and negotiation principles, including exceptional drafting and redlining skills
• Ability to negotiate skillfully in writing and verbally with counterparties and present clear and strong arguments for the company’s business positions
• Experience presenting ideas to various levels within an organization, bringing together internal stakeholders and managing customer and vendor relationships
• Able to take direction and work independently, prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment with minimal oversight needed
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills required
• Excellent organizational, prioritization and time management skills required
• Strong computer skills required including Word and Excel, and contract management systems; experience with Ironclad preferred

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize the company’s contract lifecycle, leading cross-functional stakeholders through contracting gates
• Draft, review, interpret, redline and negotiate vendor contracts and other agreements to identify and mitigate legal risk and ensure compliance with company polices, commercial specifications, and other requirements
• Identify and escalate high-risk contracts including by utilizing legal resources and other subject matter experts to ensure all levels of risk are recognized and addressed
• Effectively communicate legal risk to internal stakeholders
• Manage all pre-execution and post-execution contract workflows
• Assist with migration of contract repository to new CLM (Ironclad)
• Maintain the centralized database of contracts (Ironclad CLM), ensuring accurate and efficient tracking and reporting capability
• Analyze contracts and relationship dynamics in response to business questions and provide cross-functional guidance
• Create and execute procurement strategies, processes and templates that are aligned with business objectives
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to help identify, develop, document, and implement process improvements, develop proposals, new contract templates and ensure alignment with all internal parties on key agreement terms
• Assist and support Procurement with managing relationships with third party technology vendors or other service providers
• Facilitate and compile stakeholder reviews of complex agreements from the various business units and other teams as necessary

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible spending accounts
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Education reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Unlimited vacation
• Bonuses
• Company paid holidays