Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Box - Senior Counsel EMEA

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Senior Counsel EMEA

London, UK
EMEA Sales
Full-Time

Box is looking to hire an intelligent, talented and energetic, in-house Counsel, to focus on SaaS-PaaS commercial transactions. This is a tremendous opportunity to join a small legal team as our first in-house counsel in EMEA and add value to a dynamic, rapidly growing innovative company. You can step in and help make an immediate impact on the organization. This is an opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing IT companies and be part of its fun culture. This challenging role will encompass a range of legal matters, contract drafting, review and negotiation, privacy laws and European regulations. You will also provide guidance on legal matters including but not restricted to European employment law.

Responsibilities

    • Draft, review and negotiate a variety of agreements primarily enterprise SaaS-PaaS sales contracts involving nuanced global data protection and privacy issues, IP, ediscovery, channel partners and risk management.
    • Work with business executives and other departments’ stake-holders on a broad range of complex legal, business and strategic issues as they arise in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment.
    • Take ownership of Employment law matters and where required coordinate external legal support.
    • Research legal issues, help draft policies, playbooks and guidelines as assigned.

Qualifications

    • Experience with SaaS model-PaaS and related legal and business issues.
    • Understanding of internet related EU privacy laws.
    • Must feel at ease interacting with a range of global customers from medium sized businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises.
    • Highly collaborative and able to organize and manage projects with multiple stake-holders and groups.
    • Fast learning, self-starter with an outstanding record and demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision.
    • Tactful with strong external negotiation skills.
    • Detail oriented, well organized and technically-adept. 
    • 5+ years of relevant legal experience, in-house and law firm experience preferred.
    • Accredited law degree and a current license 
    • Fluent English written and spoken, another European language (i.e. French...) a plus.
    • Passion for cloud technologies

About Box: Box provides a secure way to share content and improve collaboration on any device. Desktop, tablet or mobile. From monolithic corporations to mom and pop stores, Box believes technology should never limit anything you do. Businesses of any size can be more productive, inventive and powerful on Box. The company is well funded by top VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and U.S. Venture Partners. Box is proud to be on Forbes’ list of America’s Most Promising Companies, is used in 180,000 businesses - including 97% of the Fortune 500 – and is the go-to product of 20 million people.

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