Legal Counsel – Commercial & Technology Transactions

The role

The Legal Counsel will draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts with global customers and vendors. They will provide legal support to internal clients and interface with cross-functional teams.

What you will do

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts with customers and vendors in many countries across the globe
• Providing legal support to various internal clients across the company, including Canonical’s sales organisation
• Interfacing with cross-functional teams to support company initiatives
• Utilising Canonical’s contract management system to ensure accurate data is maintained for signed contracts
• Working with local counsel in many countries to seek and implement advice

Required qualifications

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• A degree in law, JD or equivalent
• Active licence to practise law or current progress towards that
• Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-cultural environment
• Effective both independently and as part of a team
• A passion for technology evidenced by personal initiatives and projects
• Professional written and spoken English with excellent drafting and presentation skills
• Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
• Appreciative of diversity; polite and effective in a multicultural multinational organisation
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability

Nice to have

• Experience in commercial transactions, intellectual property, or corporate law
• Leadership and the ability to influence others to embrace new ideas or practices
• Understanding of the open source software community and values
• Understanding of the technology industry - silicon, data centers, PCs, connected devices, and software
• Experience working on in-house legal team and/or law firm

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Bi-annual compensation review
• Company recognition rewards
• 40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and our All Company holiday periods
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, with Priority Pass for lounge access

About the company

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. The company is founder-led, profitable and growing, with its Ubuntu platform used in enterprise initiatives like public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.