Freshers Senior Counsel Job in Power School

Responsibilities

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provide risk-based and pragmatic resolution of outstanding of commercial negotiations, leveraging in a quick, concise, and commercially focused legal advice.
• Ability to work in an environment with multiple stakeholders and within a framework governed by corporate policies and business practices.
• Ability to understand, interpret and explain contractual terms and legal principles to senior and C-suite staff and negotiate effectively with 3rd parties as related to any alleged security or privacy incident.
• Responding to various ad-hoc queries where the role must identify, analyze, and assess risk in connection with business transactions, including in connection with internal approvals to assist approvers in making decisions on an informed basis.
• Assist in ensuring business transactions comply with PowerSchool business practices, policies, procedures as well as local laws.
• Must have ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and to tolerate change and ambiguity.
• Experience with software licensing, including, SaaS, licensed software, cloud-based solutions, intellectual property, and open.
• Experience with reviewing, drafting, and negotiating federal, state, and local government contracts related to, among other things, software licensing, marketing, products and services procurement, privacy and data rights and processing, and professional.
• Broad understanding of procurement agreements for products and services including complex software, technology, hardware purchase and leasing, professional services, general commercial, and offshore and domestic outsourcing agreements.
• Familiarity with other regulatory compliance issues including, but not limited to, print advertising, state and federal, state trade and competition regulations and statutes.
• Some experience with domestic and cross-border aspects of general applicable privacy and data security laws and regulations.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team, to effectively coach and mentor others (including non-attorneys), and a sense of humor and resiliency, especially under tight deadlines and while managing multiple priorities.
• Experience supporting corporate transactions as well as cross-border transactions.
• Ability to understand and independently draft a variety of policies and procedures for all functional and subject matter areas of the company.
• Ability to handle and prioritize a high and diverse volume of contractual and other legal matters with limited supervision; this includes self-initiation of problem identification and resolution for company s benefit even where not specifically pre-directed by a
• Develop a thorough understanding of and familiarity with the company s business, its people, products, markets, and customers to identify trends and formulate structures and strategies accordingly.

Qualifications

To be considered for and to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The candidate must have minimum 8 years PQE, including prior in-house experience with technology companies and/or a law firm. Ability to work in fast-paced environment. Experience working with in-house clients and business partners. Completed law degree and member of bar association in relevant jurisdictions. Superior legal skills and business judgment in areas of responsibility. Solid writing skills. As part of PowerSchool s employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve a cognitive test, identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable). The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.

Qualifications include:

• A LLB and excellent academic credentials from a top law school.
• Ability to speak fluently in English, Hindi, and/or other Indian languages.
• Experience providing risk-based and pragmatic resolution of outstanding privacy and data protection aspects of commercial negotiations, leveraging in a quick, concise, and commercially focused legal advice.
• Attention to detail with a commitment to mitigating risk to the corporate
• Ability to work directly with senior levels of management and to effectively communicate legal issues and obtain input and decision making within tight
• Evaluate and develop appropriate policies and processes for legal compliance for
• Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize, multi-task, and cope well with
• Talent for organization, efficiency, and proactive improvement of the status
• 8- 10 years of solid commercial contracts review, negotiation, and drafting experience, preferably with a publicly- traded company and a top law firm.
• Ability to enjoy working in a casual atmosphere, while working hard and meeting expectations!

Environmental factors:

• Constant indoor collaborative work environment in close contact with co-workers
• Frequent social interactions and interruptions
• Frequent work under time restraints and, on occasion, during non-standard business hours
• Rare travel

EEO Commitment

PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailingaccommodations@powerschool.com.