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Associate Counsel

As Associate Counsel, you will play a key role on SmartBear's growing legal team by drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements and providing thoughtful, pragmatic legal advice to business partners on a variety of issues. Your strong interpersonal skills will drive collaboration across departments to achieve key goals in a fast-paced environment. This role will report to the company’s Associate General Counsel.

About the role

As an Associate Counsel you will:

· Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of agreements, including master services agreements, consulting/professional services agreements, software license agreements, cloud software agreements, data processing agreements, amendments, and NDAs.

· Advising the business on contract interpretation, issues, risks and negotiating strategies, with pragmatic, business-minded guidance.

· Ensure continuity and improvement in the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of contracting processes and procedures.

· Catalog vendor agreements, manage in repository and identify and track key terms.

· Review RFI/RFP/supplier onboarding requests and refine answers in RFP software response tool. Support the company in the evolution of its compliance program.

· Collaborating with finance, product, marketing, and other departments to achieve key business objectives. · Assist with corporate projects as needed for matters such as M&A, corporate governance, etc.

· Providing other support to the legal team as requested.

We are looking for you if you have:

· 1-3 years as a commercial attorney drafting, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements, preferably at a technology company.

· Precise technical contracts knowledge with the ability to draft and articulate positions practically and effectively.

· Strong critical thinking abilities, strong business acumen and excellent business judgment independently.

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to distill complex issues clearly and communicate well both one-on-one and in groups and in internal and external contexts. · Top tier customer service working through agreements with and responding to inquiries from internal clients.

· Meet department service levels and compliance with department requirements.

· Eagerness to work in a generalist capacity and contribute to a wide range of in-house legal matters.

· Manage multiple priorities, and pivot between responsibilities in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Why you should join the SmartBear crew:

· You can grow your career at every level.

· We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.

· We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.

· We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person.

· We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

Did you know?

· Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.

· SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.

· SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland and Bangalore, India.

· We’ve won major industry (product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator and BuiltIn Best Places to Work.

SmartBear is an equal employment opportunity employer and encourages success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical disability, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, medical condition, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other legally protected status.

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