Senior Corporate Counsel, Workday
Commercial Transactions
$159.6-283.6k
Salary range dependent on candidate location
Enterprise management cloud platform
Be an early applicant
Enterprise management cloud platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$159.6-283.6k
Salary range dependent on candidate location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide an all-in-one management cloud solution for the rapidly changing business requirements of the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- J.D. Degree (or foreign equivalent) and membership in at least 1 state bar
- 7+ years of experience as a practicing attorney in a law firm or in-house/public sector legal department
- CIPP/E Certification and/or deep understanding of sophisticated global data privacy laws and principles
- Excellent contract negotiation and drafting skills, comfortable and adept at teaming with leadership in fast paced customer facing transactions, preferably with enterprise software/SaaS experience
- Experience negotiating contracts in the public sector, specifically with state and local government and higher education entities
- Ability to influence, advise, and advocate for the business’ interests
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, enabling effective communication with legal and non-legal audiences
- Exercises outstanding judgment and in tune with sophisticated needs of the business to advise clients in an effective and creative manner
- Nurtures internal and external relationships and leads project collaboration with cross-functional networks
- Uses strategic focus, critical thinking and a problem solving approach
- Proactively identifies and analyzes legal risks and exercises good judgment and effective techniques to reach solutions with little guidance
- Manages legal projects using strong organizational and project management skills; uses lean principles for process improvements
- Willingness and aptitude to learn and utilize new technologies, including artificial intelligence tools, to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in legal tasks such as contract review, legal research, and process improvement
- Great teammate with a sense of humor!
What the job involves
- The Customer Base GTM legal team provides transactional counsel and support for our business teams working with Workday’s existing customers. We partner with the broader Workday team to drive growth, improve customer experience, and scale with the growth of the broader business we support
- This Senior Corporate Counsel, Commercial Transactions will be one of the GTM Customer Base attorneys supporting a highly valued and rapidly growing business function focused on renewal and expansion transactions for Workday’s largest and most strategic customers, as well as customer lifecycle management from a GTM legal perspective
- This lawyer’s primary responsibility will be to support multiple sales teams while partnering effectively with deals management, sales operations, services, product, finance and contract operations
- Drive valuable technology transactions, which will include negotiation with customers and drafting of subscription, data processing and professional services agreements, assignments, amendments, and add on transactions
- Provide proactive strategic advice and guidance to internal teams regarding business and legal issues and risks and support our sales team with bringing deals to a timely close
- Assist in implementing legal efficiencies to support the customer base business unit and improve our contract processes and operations in that segment
- Help build and improve contract templates and negotiation playbooks and assist with providing internal training to sales, sales operations, contract operations, and the broader GTM legal team on how we build a frictionless customer contract experience
Application process
- End Date: April 22, 2025
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
Workday has acquired and paired up with many other companies to keep expanding its offering. In 2021, it purchased the employee feedback platform Peakon in response to the growing need for managers to be able to survey workers and collect satisfaction data without face-to-face meetings. The company has also bought and developed many financial tools and HR management tools.
The company’s goal is to provide end-to-end back office services and while there are other providers, such as UKG Pro and Ceridian HCM, Workday’s broad offering helps them to stand out. Though it faced a tough global market in 2023 and has shed some of its headcount, Workday has seen a 6.5% gain in value in the first quarter of 2024. It is now focusing on growth and developing the AI capabilities of its platform. .
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Vision and dental insurance
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Virtual primary care
- Flexible time-off policy
- Global mental health resources
- Global dedicated on-site clinical counselors
- Global well-being days
- $25k fertility/family planning benefits
- North Star financial wellness
- Retirement funds and matching
- 401k plan
- On-site health clinic (Pleasanton office)
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(CEO)Worked for Morgan Stanley for 3 years and took a Stanford MBA, before spending almost 6 years at Oracle as SVP. Co-founded Workday in 2005 while working as a Greylock Advisory Partner.
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