Legal Counsel, Commercial

Summary

Join Scandit's Legal team as Legal Counsel and provide legal support for global sales transactions. Advise sales executives on commercial deal structures and licensing terms, assess and manage legal risks, and draft and negotiate various agreements. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure agreements align with business needs, communicate transaction status, and support RFP responses. Continuously improve Scandit's standard agreements and processes. This role requires 2-4 years PQE as a commercial legal counsel with experience in software, IP licensing, and international commercial contracts. The ideal candidate will have experience with SaaS business models, reseller agreements, and data privacy matters. Scandit offers a flexible work environment, learning and development opportunities, an attractive equity plan, and a top-notch tech pack.

Requirements

• 2-4 years PQE as a commercial legal counsel
• Experience in software, IP licensing and commercial contracts, preferably with an understanding of the SaaS (subscription) business model
• Experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts internationally
• Familiarity with reseller and other types of channel agreements
• Knowledge of or genuine interest in data privacy matters
• Previously worked for a scale-up technology company
• Willingness to go beyond your role, your team and (sometimes) your comfort zone to make a cross-functional impact on the business
• Be a business enabler working closely with and establishing strong relations with the business stakeholders across the organisation

Responsibilities

• Provide legal support to sales transactions globally
• Advise sales executives with subject matter expertise on commercial deal structures and licensing terms in line with our go-to-market strategy
• Assess, manage, monitor and communicate legal risks
• Structure, draft, review and negotiate software license agreements, SaaS agreements, DPAs, and partnership agreements (including third party contract documents)
• Coordinate and collaborate with various other teams such as Product, Engineering, Sales, Deal Desk and Finance to collect input, ensuring our agreements appropriately reflect business needs
• Efficiently communicate transaction status and trade-offs to obtain management approvals where necessary
• Support the Sales team in answering RFPs and vendor questionnaires
• Support the team in continuous improvement of Scandit’s standard agreements, processes, and transaction-related policies
• Supporting other departments and stakeholders within the business on an ad hoc basis

Preferred Qualifications

• You love working with commercial contracts
• Have a strong interest and knowledge of privacy laws

Benefits

• Flexible, office, hybrid or home working
• Innovation hackathons
• Festive/end of year all company celebrations
• Your birthday off
• Learning and development opportunities
• An attractive individual equity plan in a high growth company
• Top notch tech pack to enable you to do your most productive work
• Brand new optimized-for-hybrid working HQ in Zurich as well as local offices in hotspots London, Tampere, Warsaw, Boston, Singapore and Tokyo
• As well as specific benefits related to the location you are joining