Senior Corporate Counsel

Senior Corporate Counsel

Astound Commerce

Kosice, Slovakia

Job Purpose:

As Senior Corporate Counsel, you will have the opportunity to work closely with other folks locally and across our global business organization, on a diverse range of legal matters. An ideal candidate would be a natural problem solver and troubleshooter, able to adapt and evolve with the team and company, with a willingness to lead, manage, and resolve cross-functional legal and operational matters.

This role is a key member of the legal team and will be a critical player in driving Astound’s business model, commercial contracting, compliance, data privacy protection, HR/employment, and executing on Astound’s mergers and acquisitions growth strategy.

In this role you will get to:

• Interact with and support various groups across the company, with a primary focus on general compliance, commercial contracting, data privacy, employment/HR, and m&a;
• Review, drafting, and negotiation of commercial contracts with technology partners, vendors, and customers, with a strong emphasis on professional services , SaaS, Software Licensing, and software development engagements;
• Provide legal advice on privacy and information security matters to other Legal Department team members and cross-functional teams such as information sec, procurement, product, and engineering teams;
• Work with the data protection team to draft and implement internal and external privacy policies, notices and disclosures; scope and perform periodic data privacy risk assessments, mitigation and remediation as well as the mitigation of privacy and security risks;
• Provide legal advice with respect to handling general compliance, privacy and security-related customer and regulatory inquiries and investigations;
• Manage/update policies and procedures to comply with applicable jurisdictional laws, regulations and best practices globally on compliance issues such as anti-corruption, anti-bribery, export control compliance and conflicts of interest;
• Advise on a broad range of strategic legal and business matters;
• Conduct or coordinate research into legal questions and issues that are brought up by the business as we seek to solve problems in new ways;
• Legal process creation (drafting and operationalization) for local and global legal/operational units;
• Work with and direct outside counsel on advice, research, filings, disclosures, and other projects as needed

Your skills and qualifications

• 6+ Years of professional work experience;
• 5 Years of Experience working with International Companies;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with meticulous attention to detail;
• Excellent legal project management skills;
• The ability to independently multitask and prioritize projects;
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment;
• Desire to be a teacher, leader, and student, as is expected from all team members;
• Law Degree or Equivalent;
• Proficiency in MS Office, Google Apps (G Suite), and cloud-based applications generally is a plus;
• Previous experience with CRM based task management tools (i.e. JIRA / Confluence) is preferred is a plus.

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