Senior Legal Counsel, Contracts

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Veeam Software

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

☁️ SaaS

💰 $500M Private Equity Round on 2019-01

Consulting • Logistics • SaaS

Veeam Software is a global leader in data resilience and protection, offering self-managed data protection software for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Their Veeam Data Platform provides comprehensive solutions for data backup, recovery, and security, featuring zero-trust principles and AI-powered tools for data intelligence. Veeam's offerings include secure backup and storage services for platforms such as Microsoft 365, AWS, and Google Cloud, supporting diverse workloads including virtual, physical, and SaaS environments. With a reputation for innovation and customer trust, Veeam serves a broad range of industries, ensuring data resilience against disruptions such as ransomware attacks. Their solutions enable businesses to achieve data freedom, secure storage, and efficient management, reinforcing their position as a top vendor in enterprise backup and recovery software worldwide.

📋 Description

• Build trusted relationships with Sales, Deal Desk, Revenue Operations and other business stakeholders to support customer and channel transactions. • Lead the review, drafting and negotiation of a wide range of commercial agreements, including SaaS, BaaS, software, professional services, channel (including aggregator, reseller and GSI relationships) and NDAs. • Provide practical, commercially focused legal advice to Sales and business stakeholders, supporting negotiations through clear, pragmatic guidance while identifying, communicating and managing material legal, regulatory, privacy and commercial risks, and advising on compliance requirements, data protection obligations and internal approval processes. • Develop practical and defensible solutions to complex contractual and commercial issues, applying sound judgement to balance risk, identify appropriate mitigations and determine when escalation is required. • Anticipate potential contractual, legal or operational issues and take proactive steps to address them efficiently and reduce the risk of disputes or delays. • Support the development and continuous improvement of contract templates, negotiation playbooks and legal processes, and develop and deliver training and awareness programs to promote best practices and understanding of legal risks, contracting principles and company processes. • Collaborate effectively with colleagues across the Legal department and contribute to a positive, high-performing team culture.

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified lawyer with significant (10-15+ years) post-qualification experience gained in a leading law firm and/or in-house legal department but including significant in-house experience. • Strong commercial contracts background, ideally within a software, SaaS, cloud technology or broader technology company. • Excellent drafting, contract review and negotiation skills. • Extensive experience negotiating complex customer and partner agreements. • Demonstrated ability to advise business stakeholders in a practical, succinct and commercially focused manner. • Experience supporting sales organizations and working closely with commercial stakeholders in a fast-moving environment. • Experience advising on privacy and data protection issues arising in commercial technology transactions, including customer contracting requirements relating to the processing, transfer, storage and protection of data.

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 paid vacation days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares • Private medical, dental, and vision insurance with dependent enrolment • Life insurance with enhanced coverage and global 24/7 protection • Income protection after 26 weeks, covering a portion of salary • Defined contribution pension plan with employer match • Worldwide travel insurance for business and leisure, with option to enroll dependents • Employee Assistance Program with therapy, legal, and financial support, plus online GP services and wellbeing programs • Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning