Legal Counsel

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Join our world-class legal team and play a pivotal role in driving revenue in NetApp's Intelligent Data Infrastructure business as Legal Counsel. We are looking for a candidate with relevant skills, energy and enthusiasm to learn and grow on the job.

What You'll Do:

• Serve as a trusted partner to the EMEA & LATAM business by :
  • drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial technology agreements, including, framework agreements, software-as-a service (SaaS), license and services agreements, data privacy and information security agreements with customers and partners to enable sales opportunities while also complying with legal requirements and company policies.
  • conducting legal analyses and risk assessments to identify potential legal issues and providing proactive recommendations and actionable guidance on legal issues and risks.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams (including finance, information security, privacy, sales operations, business unit and product teams ) to drive customer deals to execution and design scalable processes for implementation.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of standard agreements and legal processes for customer and partner agreements, as well as on projects designed to increase velocity and efficiency, including templates and playbooks.
• Conduct internal training and develop educational materials to enhance legal awareness within the organization.

• Qualified to practice law in one of the below-mentioned Work Locations.
• Fluent in French and English (mandatory), Italian or Spanish (optional)
• 5+ years of legal experience (preferably in-house at a technology company) supporting sales transactions and contractual negotiations.
• In-depth knowledge of software, hardware and cloud agreements and associated business models, and technology industry regulations and trends.
• Solution-oriented: You bring empathy and understanding to your conversations with customers, seeking to find a path forward that balances company risk and customer needs, and you think creatively beyond the legal terms to generate possible solutions and options for the business, while clearly articulating risk-based recommendations.
• Ability to thrive in a high performance, fast-paced environment and to multitask, prioritize effectively and execute quickly.
• Team-oriented, with a good sense of humor and high level of integrity, responsibility and professionalism, and the ability to build relationships and collaborate across functions.