About Us The unicorn company Arctic Wolf was founded in the USA in 2012 and is a leader in security operations in an exciting and fast-growing industry - cybersecurity. Our commitment to customer and employee satisfaction, combined with a stable track record characterised by doubling our sales and employee numbers for five consecutive years, have made us an industry leader. In April 2021, we decided to expand globally with the goal of providing companies worldwide with first-class protection. Arctic Wolf is therefore a global leader in security operations, delivering the first cloud-native security operations platform to end cyber risk. Powered by threat telemetry spanning endpoint, network, and cloud sources, the Arctic Wolf® Security Operations Cloud ingests and analyses trillions of security events each week to enable critical outcomes for most security use cases.
Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Corporate Council Manager to be part of making this happen.
About the Role
The Corporate Counsel supports by preparing and negotiating customer, vendor,
and partner contracts, advising on corporate policies, processes, compliance and data
privacy matters, and assisting, as needed, with corporate governance activities. The
Corporate Counsel will collaborate with department managers to draft legal documents
and review contracts to ensure they meet all regulatory guidelines
Responsibilities
- Analyse, draft, and negotiate complex customer and partner contracts, including, subscription, software licensing and services arrangements, and provide back up on other commercial agreements, including vendor agreements and NDAs, as required.
- Support the needs of the global sales, channel, and customer success teams to manage the contracting, renewal and dispute processes and drive deals to closure.
- Where assigned, advise stakeholders regarding relevant issues and risks, and ensure our agreements reflect internal corporate policies and processes.
- Aid in the adoption and execution of controls necessary to ensure compliance as a third-party service provider, including drafting, reviewing, updating, and enforcing internal policies and procedures.
- Help enable the business to execute on commercial changes by understanding and providing guidance on relevant legal, privacy, and other compliance issues.
- Contribute to the formulation of playbook positions, the continuous improvement of department processes and templates, and assist with a range of commercial and corporate legal matters.
- Conduct and contribute to other legal projects, as needed.
Required Skills/Experience
- Fully qualified lawyer or similar qualification
- Fluent in German and English.
- 8+ years combined experience in commercial transactions as a lawyer, in-house counsel, or Sourcing executive with experience focused on technology transactions (technology company preferred) or at an established law firm that services tech companies.
- Strong understanding of GDPR and other global data privacy laws and requirements.
- Experience with contracting under public sector framework agreements and/or with government entities, preferred.
- Sound and practical legal and business judgment with the ability to quickly assess risks, communicate those risks to business partners, and nimbly determine creative solutions to achieve agreeable resolutions.
- Possess an operational mindset to assist with driving and align to consistent and scalable internal practices and processes that support the business and corporate legal needs.
- Strong business and technology acumen with ability to assist in navigating commercial discussions with customers, partners, and vendors.
- Excellent written/verbal communication and negotiation skills.
- Ability to organize, prioritize and manage deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
- Highly responsive and service-oriented attitude.
- Extensive expertise with enterprise subscription agreements and related matters.
- Demonstrated experience in supporting sourcing, sales, channel, and customer success departments as an internal client.
- Demonstrated experience navigating data privacy and security issues in a commercial context.
- Ability to work in a high-volume environment while remaining analytical and detail oriented.
- Ability to own a process from start to finish and implement processes independently.
- Self-motivated yet able to work in a team environment.
- Proven ability to take initiative and build strong, productive relationships with team members and customers.
Why Arctic Wolf?
At Arctic Wolf we’re cultivating a collaborative and productive work environment that welcomes a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and ideas to make our teams even stronger as we grow globally. We offer all wolves a compelling compensation and benefits packages, including 28 days per year annual leave, 8 bank holidays, paid time off to volunteer together with a comprehensive private medical and life insurance, pension, and company equity shares. Also, we want to ensure all employees to have a good work-life balance offering a robust Employee Assistance Programme, professional career progression and so much more! Come join the Pack during this exciting time of rapid growth where every employee makes a difference, and their contributions are recognised and rewarded.
