Legal Counsel

Join OpenText, a leading technology company, as a commercial Legal Counsel. In this diverse role, you will negotiate and draft various commercial technology agreements, provide legal guidance to a growing line of business, and work with cross-functional teams. You will also analyze company transactions, evaluate risk, update templates, create efficiencies, and manage projects. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience in contract negotiations, a background in contract support for various business functions, and a strong understanding of commercial matters.

• Negotiate and draft a wide variety of commercial technology agreements in support of North American-region sales activity.
• Provide analysis and guidance on company transactions, evaluate risk, update templates, create efficiencies, and manage projects of benefit to the Legal team.
• Build positive working relationships with teammates, subject matter experts, internal clients, and customers, and provide high quality, practical support to the business.
• Enthusiastic, hard-working, enjoy working in a team environment and confident working at a senior level with lawyers and other professional colleagues
• 4+ years previous experience conducting contract negotiations, preferably concerning technology
• Background in contract support for a variety of business functions including sales, marketing, engineering and other internal clients
• Strong experience working in a legal department or a law firm handling commercial matters
• Interest in learning new technologies and business models; vision to create new templates and streamline processes; and willing to make recommendations and participate in the decision-making process
• Experience doing business with regulated industries, and understanding or interest in data privacy/ data security a plus
• Ability to advise management on risks across the business and strategies for mitigation
• Solid “hands on” experience drafting, negotiating and providing guidance on a wide variety of agreements; particularly in software licensing, hosted/ cloud based product agreements, professional services contracts, and maintenance and support agreements
• Good judgment, integrity, and attention to detail, think creatively, act professionall
• Knowledge of working within the IT sector and assisting sales executives on commercial and sales transactions. Work with GenAI systems, contracting, and regulation strongly preferred