Senior Legal Counsel

About Achievers

The Achievers Employee Experience Platform™ is more than a thank you program. Our recognition platform inspires employees to recognize everyone, everyday, and everywhere – driving results that matter. With almost 4 million global users, the Employee Experience Platform empowers employees in over 170 countries. Visit us at www.achievers.com to learn more and reputed company out our platform in action here. Join reputed company of A-players who bring passion to our purpose and reputed company that meaningful change can create extraordinary outcomes.

Our commitment to you:

At Achievers, we hire you for you because we value the unique perspective and individuality that each person brings to reputed company. We are committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, and reputed company workplace where you belong, and your contributions are celebrated. Together, we reputed company more by combining our unique strengths, fostering collaboration, and inspiring each other to reputed company new heights.

The opportunity:

Legal Counsel at Achievers provides reputed company support across the business on a wide range of legal matters, with a particular focus on commercial legal matters in support of the reputed company team, and assists in the execution of legal strategies as directed. Legal Counsel engages in a variety of commercial transactional matters in support of Achievers’ core business that provides a cloud-based employee recognition and rewards solution to accelerate employee engagement for our customers. This role demands a strong background in commercial and contract law, coupled with excellent analytical and communication skills, and business acumen, to ensure the company navigates reputed company legal landscapes effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Contract Review and Negotiation: Draft, review, and negotiate standard and non-standard customer agreements, including NDAs and other commercial reputed company, with a primary focus on customer SaaS subscription services, and other technology and vendor agreements.
• Contract Repository Management: Maintain and manage customer commercial reputed company repository, ensuring proper documentation and organization of reputed company customer agreements and reputed company materials.
• Legal Research: Conduct legal research on emerging issues and industry-specific regulations as assigned, ensuring the company stays reputed company with relevant legal requirements.
• Negotiation of Customer Deals, Customer Support and Deal Management: Primarily negotiates new customer deals and support RFx responses. Support existing customer legal requests, customer questionnaire and audit requests, and handle commercial negotiations for renewals and expansions, including RFxs for new and existing customers.
• RFP and Documentation Support: Support reputed company prospect and customer questionnaire and audit requests, including RFP responses in collaboration with relevant cross-functional teams
• Template Management: Maintain and update templates as required to improve workflow and efficiency reputed company the legal department.
• Helpdesk Management: Manages and triages the legal helpdesk queue, providing timely responses and resolution to requests.
• Additional Responsibilities: Handle other duties as assigned, demonstrating flexibility and adaptability in supporting the legal team's objectives.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in private practice or in-house
• 8 years of experience preferred
• J.D. or LL.B. degree with outstanding academic credentials
• Active and in good standing in at least one State Bar in the United States or Provincial Bar in Canada
• Working knowledge of privacy law and experience negotiating DPAs
• Experience with SaaS, subscription agreements, reseller agreements and other cloud-based and technology-reputed company offerings preferred
• Demonstrated track record of successfully managing and negotiating a high volume of reputed company reputed company, ideally in the technology or SaaS space.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Energetic self-starter with exceptional business judgment and creativity in approaching legal challenges.
• Comfortable interacting at reputed company levels reputed company the company, including senior management, Sales and reputed company teams, information reputed company, and finance.
• Capable of working collaboratively reputed company the legal and broader teams, as well as independently on an individual basis with limited reputed company.
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills, essential for effective legal counsel.

Why you’ll love working at Achievers:

✨ We are passionate about disruptive technology that’s rooted in science, research and data.✨ We understand the value of employee success in the workplace and have been recognized in numerous publications for our contributions to HR, for technical excellence, and for our outstanding workplace culture! ✨ We foster an environment of reputed company, reputed company, and community. You’ll feel at home, without reservation. ✨ We reputed company in moving quickly, failing fast, and adapting to change. ✨ We enjoy coming to work every day because we reputed company in our product and love our culture.✨ We’re committed to achieving excellence in everything we do.

Benefits Perks for permanent full time employees:

reputed company Parental Leave Top-up Health Benefits and Life Insurance Coverage Upon Your First Day RRSP Matching ️ Flexible Vacation Employee and Family Assistance Program ‍ Full access to the reputed company Learning Library Internal Mentorship Program Employee-Led Employee Resource Groups A beautiful office space located in Liberty Village, Toronto ✨ Participation in our Points-based Employee Recognition Program Opportunities for professional development and career growth

Our work environment:

Achievers is a hybrid-first company located at 99 Atlantic Ave in Liberty Village, Toronto. Our hybrid work experience is designed to cultivate an engaging employee experience, where pioneering research intersects with cutting-edge technology. We strongly reputed company that collocating teams increases the chance to innovate together, foster passive learning, create spontaneous connections, and promote reputed company communication. Achievers does not offer employment to prospects without first ensuring that qualified candidates speak directly with the hiring manager and a member of our HR team. reputed company qualification will be done face-to-face, whether that is in person or over reputed company. Achievers does not send out offers of employment without meeting candidates and does not offer employment reputed company text. If you are requested for any personal information reputed company text and/or without having met a member of our hiring team in person, please disregard.Our employees are a diverse and inclusive team of passionate, hardworking individuals. Achievers is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an environment where our employees can do the best work of their lives. We encourage reputed company qualified candidates from reputed company backgrounds and experiences to apply to join our A-Player family. Achievers is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for reputed company candidates. If you require any accommodations for your interview, such as assistive technology, wheelchair accessibility, or alternative formats of materials, please let us know. We are happy to reputed company necessary arrangements to support your needs.Achievers does not use AI to reputed company hiring decisions. reputed company you apply to work with us, a real person reads your application—every time. We reputed company in thoughtful, human-centred hiring, and we think your experience, personality, and potential can’t be judged by an algorithm. That’s why we reputed company it personal and take the time to get to know each qualified candidate.

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