General Counsel

• Own commercial contracting. Draft, review, redline, negotiate, and close client, agency, and customized agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, order forms that focus on Saas and digital-credit and usage-based arrangements, NDAs, and amendments.
• Lead client-side legal negotiations with speed. Take ownership of legal terms once commercial terms are set; respond and turn drafts quickly, negotiate directly with client legal, procurement, privacy, and security teams, and maintain momentum through execution. Provide business stakeholders with concise status updates, clearly framed risks, and the specific decisions needed to close.
• Manage vendor and consulting agreements. Review and negotiate inbound SaaS, technology, data, professional-services, contractor, and consulting agreements, balancing operational needs, speed, cost, and risk.
• Apply commercially calibrated risk judgment. Negotiate and provide practical guidance on liability caps, indemnities, warranties, intellectual property and content rights, confidentiality, data use, security, privacy, insurance, payment, termination, and dispute provisions. Understand which protections are essential, where Statusphere can responsibly accept risk, and when an issue requires executive or outside-counsel escalation.
• Own website and product legal content. Maintain and periodically update website Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, cookie and consent language, and other customer- or user-facing legal notices in coordination with Product, Marketing, Security, and outside specialists.
• Own Creator-Statusphere and Brand-Creator Agreements. Signed for each campaign and brands may have specific versions of this to deploy which must be monitored and auditable.
• Provide operational legal guidance. Answer day-to-day questions involving payments, contracting authority, creator relationships, content and usage rights, compliance, business processes, and other legal issues arising across the company.
• Build scalable legal operations. Create and maintain templates, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, approval thresholds, fallback positions, intake processes, signature workflows, and a contract repository that improve speed and consistency.
• Advise executives and manage escalation. Present the COO/CFO and other C-level leaders with a concise assessment of the issue, business impact, likelihood and severity of risk, available options, and a clear recommended path. Prioritize matters by business impact and coordinate outside counsel for specialized, jurisdiction-specific, or high-risk matters.
• Partner cross-functionally and learn the business. Build a strong working understanding of Statusphere’s customers, creator ecosystem, products, revenue model, deal economics, and operating workflows. Work closely with Sales and other teams to remove deal blockers, support accurate handoffs, and ensure contractual commitments are understood, documented, and operationally achievable.
• Other duties and projects as assigned

In-House Commercial Counsel

• Design, build, and deploy bespoke AI solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions
• Develop software solutions following the software development lifecycle
• Write clean, secure code and build scalable solutions through DevOps practices
• Mentor and guide junior software engineers

Senior Software Engineer, Legal

• Lead legal support for Clarivate’s corporate transactions
• Review and negotiation of deal documents
• Assistance in structuring deals and coordination of due diligence
• Lead a variety of general corporate projects
• Review and negotiate complex commercial agreements
• Identify ongoing personal training and developmental needs as part of continuous career and professional development

Senior Counsel – M&A

• Strategic Product Liability and Regulatory Counsel
• Serve as a trusted legal advisor to cross-functional product teams across HARMAN’s business divisions and SBUs on global product liability, safety, and consumer protection laws
• Provide guidance on traditional and emerging product liability risks, including hardware-based products, battery-powered consumer electronics, and integrated software-enabled technologies
• Advise on evolving legal frameworks that expand product liability exposure to software, AI-enabled features, and connected technologies, including developments under the EU Product Liability Directive and similar global reforms
• Counsel business teams on compliance with key regulatory authorities and frameworks, including: U.S. federal and state product safety laws (including Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requirements) EU product safety and liability regimes
• Monitor and interpret emerging regulatory trends affecting AI, software-defined products, battery safety, and connected devices, and proactively communicate legal risk considerations to stakeholders
• Support global product liability risk management strategies, including proactive risk assessments and mitigation planning
• Provide legal guidance in connection with product safety assessments, investigations, corrective actions, and recall considerations
• Collaborate with division legal teams to provide legal and regulatory guidance throughout the product development lifecycle and review of new technologies, features, and product initiatives
• Advise on product safety and compliance requirements, including labeling, warnings, testing, certifications, and consumer protection obligations

Product Safety – Incident Response Counsel

• Own negotiation and execution of commercial SaaS agreements — including MSAs, subscription agreements, DPAs, and NDAs — while enabling the business to move quickly within defined guardrails.
• Enforce company positions on non-standard terms and manage escalation paths, improving time-to-signature without increasing legal or commercial risk.
• Train and enable Sales to handle routine negotiations independently, reducing legal bottlenecks at scale.
• Lead the end-to-end contracting function for all customer and vendor agreements, building a scalable, AI-enabled operation that reduces manual work and accelerates deal cycles.
• Implement and manage a Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system, including templates, negotiation playbooks, approval workflows, and delegation of authority controls.
• Leverage AI-driven legal tools for contract review, risk flagging, and workflow automation — actively identifying opportunities to reduce outside counsel reliance over time.
• Own vendor contracting and procurement legal processes, maintaining a contract repository with proactive tracking of key terms and obligations.
• Lead legal aspects of data privacy — including DPA negotiation and regulatory alignment with GDPR, CCPA, and related frameworks — and monitor evolving requirements across Canto's operating and customer geographies.
• Partner with Security, Product, and Executive Leadership on emerging legal and regulatory requirements related to AI, data governance, automated decision-making, IP, and responsible AI practices.
• Serve as the primary legal advisor across commercial and operational matters, managing outside counsel relationships across the US and Europe with a focus on cost efficiency and minimizing routine escalations.
• Handle disputes and pre-litigation matters with a pragmatic, resolution-oriented approach, and advise on Canto's corporate entity compliance program.
• Partner with Security during privacy and security events, coordinating on notification obligations, contractual commitments, regulatory requirements, and privilege preservation.

Commercial Counsel

• Draft, review, and negotiate a range of commercial and supplier agreements, including hardware supply, software licensing, services, joint development, and partnership agreements, while developing and maintaining playbooks, templates, and negotiation guidelines for use across the legal team
• Design, implement, and maintain compliance programs and policies covering areas such as data privacy, safety, regulatory obligations, and corporate governance
• Provide day-to-day legal counsel to cross-functional teams including engineering, operations, business development, government affairs, marketing, and human resources
• Advise on regulatory matters related to autonomous vehicle testing, deployment, and commercialization at the federal, state, and local levels
• Support the management of outside counsel and coordinate with external advisors on specialized matters including litigation, IP, and regulatory filings
• Monitor and analyze evolving laws and regulations affecting autonomous vehicles, transportation, data privacy, and employment, and summarize business implications to leadership
• Develop and deliver training programs on legal compliance, contracting best practices, and risk management for business teams
• Assist with corporate transactions, equity matters, and board-related activities as needed

Corporate Counsel

• Serve as a strategic business partner and advisor to the Sports Medicine Business Unit.
• Effectively communicate with leadership at all levels of the organization, bringing in feedback and gaining alignment from a wide range of functions
• Provide timely analysis and counsel on a diverse range of legal issues
• Independently draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a variety of agreements (e.g., sales, services, supply, distribution, consulting, clinical study, non-disclosure, employment, and other commercial arrangements)
• Analyze and provide clear and concise guidance on laws, rules, regulations, and Stryker policies as necessary, including with respect to the company’s interactions with healthcare professionals
• Collaborate with lawyers and other professionals from Stryker’s Centers of Expertise to manage a variety of significant matters (e.g., strategic contracting, data privacy and security, intellectual property, litigation, employment, and regulatory matters)
• Provide pragmatic and business-relevant assessments of legal risk and exhibit the ability to effectively communicate legal risk to non-legal professionals
• Exercise excellent judgment in identifying and escalating issues to management
• Support the overall objectives of the Sports Medicine Business Unit and Enterprise Governance Department
• Collaborate and communicate with colleagues, management, business partners, and outside counsel
• Assist on other matters as needed

Associate Division Counsel – Sports Medicine

• Own multi-state regulatory compliance obligations for HopSkipDrive as a transportation network company operating in the education sector, including TNC licensing, driver qualification standards, DMV record check requirements, and state-specific transportation regulations.
• Draft and submit regulatory filings, advice letters, and compliance attestations to state agencies; track and manage agency review, approval, and disposition.
• Advise on revenue contract and RFP provisions with regulatory implications, including background check requirements, reporting obligations, and driver and vehicle standards.
• Advise internal stakeholders on regulatory requirements for new market entry and ongoing compliance obligations in existing markets.
• Build AI projects and workflows related to regulatory matters.
• Monitor and analyze federal and state legislation affecting HopSkipDrive’s operations, with a focus on transportation network companies, school pupil transportation, and automated decision systems.
• Develop legal and policy positions on pending legislation; collaborate with the Policy and Government Relations teams to prepare bill analyses, public comments, and engagement strategies.
• Assist with bill review and bill drafting in partnership with the Policy team.
• Identify legislative trends and develop proactive compliance strategies, particularly around TNC regulation, school transportation, and gig economy classification.
• Represent HopSkipDrive’s interests in regulatory rulemakings before state public utility commissions and transportation agencies.
• Monitor and manage responses to public records and disclosure requests from state and local agencies.
• Leverage AI tools for more efficient legislative analysis.
• Oversee a book of claims related to labor and employment claims.
• Manage a small number of cases or claims related to civil litigation including discovery strategy, preparing corporate witnesses, and directing litigation defense.
• Support outside counsel in preparing for and conducting arbitrations.
• Handle subpoenas, service of process, and regulatory investigations, coordinating with outside counsel as appropriate.
• Build AI projects and workflows related to litigation.
• Manage data use agreements and research partnerships with academic institutions and government agencies.
• Provide legal research and rulemaking assistance as needed to support a busy and growing regulatory portfolio.
• Serve as a legal subject matter expert on AI and automated decision-making, advising on compliance with emerging state AI legislation and internal AI governance frameworks.

Senior Counsel – Policy & Regulatory

• Participate in shaping the company’s AI platform and patterns
• Work at real production scale: Build and evolve systems that operate over millions of documents, complex and ever-changing law, privileged client data, and thousands of concurrent AI interactions from professionals doing time-sensitive work
• Join a tight group of senior engineers and researchers shipping quickly, with direct access to product leadership and customers
• Lead and/or design initiatives that cut across AI, product, identity, and infrastructure
• Mentor staff and senior engineers, raising the bar on AI integration practices, system design, code quality, and security across the org
• Help define and lead the platform integration strategy across new and existing Thomson Reuters legal systems
• Define how autonomous agents act on a user’s behalf safely
• Partner with security, platform, and compliance teams on multi-tenancy isolation, data residency, privilege protection, and the audit trails that legal and government customers require
• Design for high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads: caching, queuing, rate-limiting, model failover, and cost/performance trade-offs
• Establish and refine SLOs, observability, and incident response for AI systems that must be correct, auditable, and trustworthy in professional legal workflows

Principal Engineer, CoCounsel

• Understand and learn different technology areas being developed by Mercedes’s engineering teams, to stay aware of ongoing projects and research across the company in the development of modern vehicles, and identify areas for potential patent and other IP protection.
• Conduct invention disclosure meetings with inventors in such technology areas, to understand project roadmaps, specific projects, technical advancements, and inventions in those strategic areas for potential patent filings.
• Strategize with engineers, patent team members, management, and other colleagues to create a strategy for IP protection for the innovation being created by Mercedes-Benz in North America. Identify candidate inventions that are suitable for patent protection, and craft claim strategy to protect such inventions via patents.
• Work with outside counsel in the preparation of patent applications based on the invention details learned from inventors, as well as perform hands-on drafting of patent applications based on the crafted IP protection/patent claim strategy in the above-mentioned technology areas (e.g., software, AI, autonomous driving, EV technology).
• Work with outside counsel in the prosecution of filed patent applications, as well as directly assist in the formulation and drafting of responses to office actions.
• Counsel business units on freedom-to-operate (FTO) topics, including performing risk assessment and proposing measures for mitigating IP and other litigation risk.
• Counsel business units on other IP matters, including trademark and brand management topics, software and copyright issues, etc.
• Provide training to non-IP colleagues in topics such as requirements for patentability, trade secret protection, trademark protection, and other IP topics.

Patent Counsel/Patent Agent – Contractor

• Be a deep product expert on our AI-enabled CoCounsel Legal suite of products
• Deliver all aspects of the customer success motion in combination with deep CoCounsel Legal product expertise, including co-creating customer success plans, delivering executive business reviews, demonstrating value, identifying and mitigating risk while retaining and growing the customers' relationship with Thomson Reuters
• Serve as a deep product expert in event settings, like industry conferences, Thomson Reuters Conferences, Webinars, virtual and in person engagements
• Develop and deliver enablement for customers in partnership to serve our digital strategy
• Develop and deliver enablement to educate Thomson Reuters employees
• Build and present business plans, report on market and competitor activities, and represent Customer Success in cross-functional meetings to support business objectives
• Effectively partner with all relevant internal and external partners and stakeholders
• Leverage technology tools (e.g., Salesforce, Gong, Copilot) to manage client information, pipeline, and financial forecasts accurately

Product Success Manager

• lead a team of Product Success Managers with customers across the CoCounsel Legal suite
• directly own a focused portfolio of enterprise and strategic customers
• coach and enable your team to deliver measurable customer outcomes through structured Customer Success Plans (CSPs), executive business reviews (EBRs), and proactive customer check-ins
• focus on adoption, value realization, and expansion in partnership with Sales and Professional Services
• be a deep product expert on the AI enabled CoCounsel suite of products
• deliver all aspects of the customer success motion to assigned customers
• co-create customer success plans, deliver executive business reviews, demonstrate value, identify and mitigate risk while retaining and growing customer relationships
• develop enablement for customers in partnership to serve our digital strategy
• build and present business plans, report on market and competitor activities
• represent Customer Success in cross-functional meetings

Manager, Product Success – CoCounsel Legal

• Advise on various legal issues relating to company business practices.
• Review, draft, and assist in the negotiation of various contracts and agreements, corporate policies, and standard operating procedures.
• Assist with regulatory compliance issues.
• Review and update confidentiality agreements.
• Assist in developing legal training materials.
• Provide support in maintaining executed agreements and other corporate documents.
• Additional duties as required.

Associate Legal Counsel

• Provides advice to internal departments on a wide range of legal issues.
• Coordinates regulatory interactions and examinations for Jackson's insurance and distribution businesses.
• Oversees regulatory filings and other regulatory submissions.
• Facilitates remediation of exam findings.
• Provides leadership with regulatory examinations and interactions.
• Assists with highly confidential projects.
• Assists with the development and implementation of corporate policies.
• Coordinates legal and compliance efforts related to artificial intelligence, data governance, privacy, and social media.

Associate General Counsel, Regulatory Affairs

• Own legal review and negotiation for customer, partner, vendor, agency, publisher, and enterprise agreements.
• Partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Customer Success, Marketplace, Finance, and Product to unblock deals while protecting the company.
• Build scalable contract templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and approval workflows.
• Support enterprise sales motions, including MSAs, DPAs, security reviews, procurement redlines, and custom commercial terms.
• Advise on marketplace, affiliate, creator, influencer, and paid media partnership structures.
• Own and evolve Levanta’s Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, creator terms, seller terms, marketplace policies, and related platform rules.
• Advise Product and Engineering on legal issues related to attribution, payments, data usage, creator-brand relationships, affiliate programs, and platform expansion.
• Support compliance with privacy, data protection, advertising, marketing, consumer protection, and platform partner requirements.
• Help the company navigate evolving marketplaces and platforms like Amazon, Walmart, TikTok Shop, Shopify, Meta, Google, and other ecosystem partners.
• Develop practical internal policies that allow the business to scale without unnecessary friction.
• Advise on international expansion, cross-border operations, and market-specific legal risk as Levanta grows globally.
• Partner with Finance, People, Product, and GTM teams on entity formation, EOR arrangements, contractor structures, employment risk, taxable presence, and local operating models.
• Manage local counsel in priority jurisdictions and translate legal advice into clear, practical business recommendations.
• Support international customer, vendor, partner, creator, and agency agreements.
• Advise on cross-border data, privacy, employment, IP protection, payments, anti-bribery, sanctions, and regulatory considerations.
• Help build internal policies and approval processes for international hiring, contracting, sales activity, and vendor management.
• Manage corporate governance, board consents, equity matters, investor requests, financing support, and corporate housekeeping.
• Partner with Finance and People on employment matters, contractor classification, equity administration, compensation issues, and international hiring considerations.
• Manage disputes, claims, escalations, and legal risk across the business.
• Oversee outside counsel and ensure legal spend is efficient and well-prioritized.
• Help prepare the company for future financing, strategic partnerships, M&A, and expansion opportunities.

Head of Legal

• Manage and develop the defense strategy for employment-related litigation, including class actions, single-plaintiff lawsuits, and administrative charges.
• Direct and manage a large, active docket of employment-related litigation, including class actions, collective actions, and single-plaintiff lawsuits (claims involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, and wrongful termination).
• Develop and execute comprehensive defense strategies from inception through resolution, including driving early case assessments, determining settlement vs. trial strategies, and managing discovery.
• Early Dispute Resolution: Evaluate pre-litigation demands and internal escalations; negotiate strategic resolutions to minimize financial exposure and operational disruption.
• Act as the primary legal partner to HR and business leaders on a wide range of day-to-day employment matters, including recruiting, hiring, performance management, accommodations, discipline, terminations, and organizational restructurings/RIFs.
• Balance legal risks with business goals, demonstrating a strong ability to find creative, compliant pathways to achieve business objectives (finding the "yes" through risk-calibrated solutions).
• Provide expert guidance on FLSA classifications, state-specific wage and hour laws, pay transparency requirements, pay equity initiatives, and compensation practices.
• Advise on complex disability, religious, and leave of absence issues involving the ADA, FMLA, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), and various state-level paid leave programs.
• Provide legal oversight, strategy, and guidance on sensitive internal investigations into allegations of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, fraud, or other violations of company policy.
• Advise and review workplace policies, employee handbooks, and employment-related agreements (e.g., executive offer letters, separation agreements, and confidentiality/restrictive covenant agreements).

Senior Counsel, Labor & Employment

• Provides consistent and sound legal advice in a clear, concise and responsive manner
• Identifies conflict situations and brings more senior lawyers into the decision-making process as appropriate
• Effectively contributes to and/or leads negotiations and conflict resolutions

Counsel – Commercial Lending & Workout

• Independently conduct comprehensive preliminary legal research and perform detailed legal analysis as requested by the legal and compliance team and other departments
• Share critical updates on major laws and regulations across various countries
• Independently review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of complex global commercial agreements and amendments
• Actively collaborate with other L&C staff and organizational partners to develop, update, and maintain sophisticated templates, playbooks, and other critical documentation
• Independently draft and manage comprehensive global brand authorization letters for import and export purposes
• Act as the primary L&C point person, providing expert legal consultation services during the establishment of new plants or facilities in countries where L&C is not yet represented
• Independently manage intricate corporate governance matters, including but not limited to Annual General Meeting filings, officer changes, business scope changes, and legal address changes
• Engage and collaborate with external counsel as needed to address complex legal issues and support litigation matters
• Take the lead in gathering comprehensive input from each region when launching a global L&C policy or rule
• Handle and coordinate intricate cross-divisional matters as requested by other practice groups

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