Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia has been named a top software company by The Software Report and rated a leader by the analyst community. Acquia’s CoE is a Great Place to Work certified organization. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

Acquia is seeking an experienced and motivated attorney to join our dynamic, fun, collaborative, and team-focused company. The Global Legal Team is expanding its presence to Pune and you will be the first member based in India (Pune office). The Senior Legal Associate’s primary responsibility will be to provide off-shore legal support to Acquia’s globally dispersed Legal Department with a focus on drafting and negotiating commercial transactions (PaaS and SaaS offerings, DPAs, NDAs, vendor/procurement agreements), and support other legal matters that may arise not only in APAC, but also globally.  Depending on Acquia’s continuing growth, additionaljunior attorneys may be hired in the short term and report to this position.  You will report to the Associate General Counsel based in Munich, Germany.

This is an amazing opportunity to join a successful private company, and play a key role in supporting the company’s rapid growth.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Review and negotiate customer sales contracts (Subscription Services Agreements for PaaS and SaaS hosted offerings) that meet the company’s requirements under its policies, including those for risk tolerance, while working collaboratively with the business team, including executives.
• Review and negotiate procurement agreements (marketing, software, events, etc).
• Collaborate with revenue finance team, sales operations, product operations, support, security and other business units at all levels throughout the organization to ensure that agreements adequately protect the company’s interests.
• Provide legal advice to sales department on a day-to-day basis.
• Be a trusted business partner providing timely, thoughtful and helpful responses to requests from internal customers.
• Collaborate with revenue finance team to oversee the internal contract approval process (Quote-to-Cash process).

EDUCATION/ACCREDITATION 

• Doctor of Law degree (J.D.)  or LLB

EXPERIENCE AND SPECIFIC SKILLS

• Minimum 2 years’ relevant practice experience in corporate legal department and/or law firm, preferably with high-growth or startup technology companies dealing with commercial transactions.
• Previous team management experience is required
• Experience of providing legal support to a sales team, including sales teams operating in other regions and other time zones.
• Strong experience negotiating complex commercial transactions.
• Demonstrated success in managing multiple transactions in compliance with company policy.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and a commitment to professionalism and collegiality.
• Well-organized and detail-oriented with an outstanding work ethic; should be able to independently manage and successfully prioritize numerous projects under deadline pressure.
• Flexibility and willingness to work on a broad variety of legal matters.
• A non-hierarchical and low ego team-player who is comfortable operating in an entrepreneurial and fast-paced environment and used to very busy peak times at quarter ends.
• Mature individual with good judgment who is pragmatic and solution oriented. A genuine business partner who will provide commercially-focused advice which balances appropriate legal risk management with the need to enable and support the business.
• Outstanding organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to influence major decisions having legal ramifications through reasoned analysis and business understanding.
• Demonstrable ability to understand technical issues quickly; possessing strong analytical and problem-solving skills and demonstrating a strong ability to prioritize.
• Deeper knowledge in relation to data protection law and familiarity with current developments a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills. French/other European or Asian language proficiency is an advantage.
• And a good sense of humor!

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.