Legal Counsel

This job is with Monday.com, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

We are monday.com, a global software company transforming how businesses run. Our product suite can adapt to the needs of diverse industries and use cases within one powerful platform, empowering ~245,000 customers worldwide to reimagine how work gets done, drive greater efficiency, and scale like never before.

With over 2,500 employees across the globe, we grow by prioritizing transparency and knowledge sharing. We care about the impact you make, not the hours you clock, so we encourage initiative, ownership, and fresh thinking. We back our people with flexible work, wellness and mental health support, and a work environment built on collaboration.

We are looking for a motivated, dynamic and collaborative team player to join our growing global legal team in London where you'll have an awesome opportunity for growth and have a big impact on a rapidly growing SaaS company.

If you have a keen interest in learning about new technologies and have a strong drive to understand and support the business needs of an innovative company, read on!

Please note that this is a hybrid position of 3 days per week in our London office.

About The Role

• Advise and support the company's different departments such as sales, partnerships and procurement in the UK and across EMEA.
• Review, draft, negotiate, and interpret a wide variety of commercial agreements including SaaS agreements, NDAs, vendor contracts, data processing addendums, SOWs and partnership agreements, and ensure that all commercial agreements adequately protect the company's interests, improve processes, and increase scalability.
• Assist and lead on wider legal needs of the London and European offices supporting HR, Recruitment, Finance, Corporate and Property.
• Manage agreements and business activities to comply with company policies and risk tolerance.
• Manage multiple deals and support colleagues internationally, with sound business and legal judgement and a clear sense of company priorities.
• Provide general legal support to our global business.

Requirements

• 2-5+ years of commercial legal experience in a law firm or in-house, and more than 2 years PQE.
• The ideal candidate is a commercially-minded lawyer who is focused on execution, prepared to lead important company deals, collaborate with our Sales, Customer Success, and other teams within the company, and welcomes the dynamic environment that comes with a growing company.
• Excellent negotiating skills, keen analytical abilities, a pragmatic approach to problem-solving, as well as a track record of success in handling complex business and legal issues in a fast-paced, agile and evolving technology-driven business environment
• Experience in employment matters a particular advantage.
• Experience in the technology sector and with a good understanding of relevant privacy law preferable.
• Experience in drafting, negotiating and managing professional services agreements, software as a service agreements, NDAs and SOWs.
• Experience immigration and corporate law an advantage.
• Ability to manage several simultaneous projects under deadline pressure.
• Team player with exceptional written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
• Collaborative, positive, business-friendly and service-minded.
• Fluency in a second language (French or German) would be an advantage.
• Self-reliant and able to prioritise workload.
• Qualified solicitor or barrister admitted in England and Wales. Other relevant qualifications may be considered.

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