[Remote] Senior Legal Counsel

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Infosys is a global IT Services company seeking a senior attorney to join their commercial transactions group in the Americas Sales region. The role involves negotiating agreements, providing legal counsel, and managing external counsel while ensuring compliance with corporate risk parameters.

Responsibilities

• Negotiating various agreements with external clients and vendors
• Providing legal and business counsel to internal clients to resolve issues
• Managing external counsel (as applicable)
• Ensuring that all agreements are concluded in accordance with Infosys’ corporate risk parameters and policies
• Working or leading various department and organization projects as assigned

Skills

• A minimum of 5 years' legal work experience after law school graduation
• JD from an accredited law school; with strong academic performance
• Must be a member of a State Bar
• Blend of relevant law firm and in-house experience; preferably transactional IP/IT focused with at least 4 years of prior in-house experience
• Experience with litigation (including mediation and arbitration); responding to complaints; drafting settlement agreements; etc
• Excellent drafting skills: demonstrated experience with commercial transactions, specifically the drafting and negotiation of, but not limited to, the following types of agreements: 1) complex master outsourcing services and technology-related agreements; 2) software licensing agreements; 3) software reseller and services agreements; 4) sponsorship and marketing agreements; 5) teaming agreements; 6) RFPs and RFIs; 7) settlement agreements; 8) non-disclosure agreements; 9) statement of work(s); 10) subcontractor agreements; and 11) cloud hosted services agreements
• Project Management Skills - experience overseeing and closing multiple projects and transactions simultaneously. Ability to organize, prioritize and manage deadlines in a fast-based and demanding work environment
• Creative problem-solving skills. Ability to work independently and as part of a team with rapidly changing deadlines and priorities
• Commitment to ethics and integrity; professionalism and attention to detail and the ability to maintain strong working relationships with demanding internal clients
• Ability to identify and manage legal and business risk
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
• Sense of humor
• Approx. 15 – 20% - business travel may be required
• Experience with state and federal government contracting, including public sector procurement terms and compliance requirements (e.g., FAR/DFARS and state/local government contracting provisions), preferred
• Background in outsourcing, information technology, data privacy, intellectual property, software licensing, export control compliance, SaaS, dispute/conflict resolution and litigation (preferred)

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
• Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness , Hospital Indemnity, Legal)
• 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

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