About the Opportunity
We are looking for an enthusiastic junior counsel to be a founding member of the Veza Legal team. You will work closely with Sales, Partnerships, and other cross functional business teams to draft and negotiate contracts. In addition to juggling multiple deals and talking to customers and vendors, you will spend a significant portion of your time on helping to build processes and programs to increase efficiency and deal velocity, and help the team scale with company growth. Depending on need and interest, you may work on product development projects and other areas outside of Commercial Legal. This position reports to the Director of Legal.
What You Will Do:
- Serve as a Legal point of contact for go-to-market and procurement deals and provide practical day to day and strategic advice to relevant teams.
- Participate in the negotiation of partnership, reseller, customer, and vendor agreements.
- Work with cross-functional teams to build scalable processes to increase deal velocity.
- Draft and maintain agreement templates.
- Work on other special projects as needed.
About You:
- 2-4 years of legal experience, preferably as in-house counsel; bonus if part of this time was spent at a cloud-based software technology company.
- Strong understanding of cloud services, general SaaS business practices and relevant regulatory requirements, with a willingness to dig into the company’s evolving product offerings to help establish best practices.
- Ability to work independently to manage and negotiate agreements with a wide variety of customers and vendors.
- Strong judgment, risk-assessment and mitigation skills with the ability to quickly make recommendations and decisions.
- Adaptive and creative when problem solving, with excellent verbal and written communication skills and an ability to translate “legalese” into business-driven solutions.
- Ability to manage fast-moving workstreams and multiple stakeholders, with an ability to triage quickly and prioritize based on evolving business needs..
- Interested in exploring and integrating AI into developing workflows and processes.
- Cooperative team player, willing to take on additional responsibilities and wear multiple hats
- In possession of a great attitude and sense of humor - workloads can be a challenge, but you can manage it in stride, with help from your team.
Our Culture
We’re driven to build a strong company culture and are looking for individuals with solid alignment with the following:
- Ownership Mindset
- Act with Integrity
- Guardians of our Customers
- Opinionated Humility
- Build Trust, Earn Trust
At Veza, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range can be discussed with your recruiter for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for equity and a competitive benefits package.
Veza is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants according to applicable federal, state, and local laws. If a candidate with a disability requires an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email [email protected]
About Veza
Veza is the identity security company. Identity and security teams use Veza to secure identity access across SaaS apps, on-prem apps, data systems, and cloud infrastructure. Veza solves the blind spots of traditional identity tools with its unique ability to ingest and organize permissions metadata in the Veza Authorization Graph. Global enterprises like Blackstone, Wynn Resorts, and Expedia trust Veza to visualize access permissions, monitor permissions activity, automate access reviews, and remediate privilege violations. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, GV, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures. Visit us at veza.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
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