Senior Associate, General Counsel (Technology)

The role

This lawyer will support global business and operations regarding technology legal matters. You will lead technology and commercial transactions, provide strategic legal advice, and develop legal risk management frameworks.

What you will do

• Lead and execute country-specific, regional, and global technology and commercial transactions.
• Draft, review, and negotiate complex technology and commercial contracts.
• Provide strategic legal advice on artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, cloud computing, information security, and software licensing.
• Develop and enhance legal risk management frameworks for technology vendor contracting.
• Oversee and monitor compliance with the legal risk management framework.
• Build awareness across legal, corporate support, and business teams regarding contract standards.
• Work with Global Procurement, Finance, Technology, Information Security, and Privacy.
• Manage outside counsel retained to provide legal services.

Required qualifications

• Fluency in English and Korean.
• Qualified lawyer in the U.S., Korea or a common law jurisdiction (e.g. England, Australia, Singapore).
• At least 10+ years of post-qualification legal experience.
• Exceptional ability to deliver creative, thoughtful and business-oriented results.
• Willingness to learn voraciously and take on new scope and challenges.
• Ability to adapt easily to rapid and diverse business changes.
• Strong and effective communication skills, both oral and written.
• Sound judgment in developing and implementing legal solutions.

Nice to have

• A mixture of law firm and in-house experience is preferred.

Before you apply

• Hiring may be restricted in case the legal qualifications required for hiring and work performance is not met.
• Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information.
• Job titles and responsibilities may be subject to change depending on the candidate's overall experience.

About the company

Coupang is a global public company with a startup culture aiming to disrupt the commerce industry. The company focuses on making shopping, eating, and living easier through high-tech and hyper-connected solutions.