Corporate Counsel (Maternity Leave Cover)

About us Think about literally anything in your house. Your shirt. Your phone. That random wrench thingamabob you still havent thrown away. Odds are, it all came from somewhere else. Freight is the invisible magic trick that makes the global economy work. And were the ones helping it work a little bit faster, smarter, and cheaper. our company is the global booking and payment platform for the trillion-dollar freight industry. Hundreds of airlines and ocean liners, thousands of freight companies, and over ten thousand importers and exporters use our platform to move goods around the world faster and more efficiently. This matters. Efficient freight ultimately makes things cost a little bit less when you buy them in the store. Weve been on a rocketship (freight ship?) of double-digit growth for years, and were nowhere near done.
About the role While we help the world move, we need to make sure we cross our ts and dot our is. So were looking for a talented attorney who can juggle several balls at once (dare we say chainsaws?) and bring creative legal and business solutions to some of our biggest opportunities. The road to your success in the role relies on great communication and organization skills mixed with the ability to go with the flow, desire to learn quickly, an impressive Duolingo streak (nice to have, but were willing to let that one go), the ability to think creatively and assertiveness (with tact). Youll work with both internal stakeholders (see, we do use fancy business words too) as well as partners and customers to draft and negotiate commercial agreements, while advising business partners on opportunities, risk, and whether their virtual Zoom background is kinda eh. All because you understand that we are in business to provide services that our customers need and love. You will work with cross-functional teams, from geeky accountants to high-powered sales people, self-centered marketers who entertain themselves by throwing lines like these into job descriptions, HR professionals with incredibly high EQs, external counsel, sometimes with much lower EQ, and customer service associates to help ensure that the company acts ethically and legally.
Responsibilities:
* Provide timely and efficient legal advice to management, sales, product development, marketing, and finance teams. You can even advise them on whether to use roman numerals in lists or not. We hope you stick with not.
* Be primary point of contact for our talented and diverse HR team in multiple jurisdictions.
* Manage and negotiate agreements with customers, vendors, business partners, and other parties, including terms of use, license agreements, and other contracts. We get to do this with some of the worlds largest companies in the world so yes, your LinkedIn will be impressive.
* Ensure compliance with global legal and regulatory requirements, such as data privacy and, well, the law.
* Assist with developing and overseeing company policies on industry-specific issues, corporate governance or regulatory affairs.
* If a contract is negotiated and lost, is it really a contract? Youll help us stay on top of our game by maintaining and improving systems and workflows, use data in our legal department, including by owning our contract management database.
* Stay up-to-date on legal developments and conduct legal research.
* Assist with statutory filings, licensing forms, company registration, trademarks and legal name changes of our pet fish. Obligatory disclaimer: we do not yet have any pet fish. However you will be primarily responsible for keeping your bamboo plant alive.
* Liaise with outside counsel regarding their assignments.
Hybrid:
Yes