Senior Legal Counsel, Vonage
CMT, RCS, & Sourcing
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Cloud-based communications APIs
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Cloud-based communications APIs
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make communications more flexible, intelligent, and personal to help enterprises stay ahead.
Role
Who you are
- Bar admission in the US
- Minimum of 5-7 years of relevant in-house legal experience, ideally in telecommunications, technology, SaaS, or cloud communications
- Experience leading negotiations and drafting contracts, ideally negotiating with large MNOs/MVNOs and other carriers, aggregators, and technology suppliers
- Working in an international arena and be comfortable working with counterparties internationally
- In-house experience working cross-functionally to drive projects and transactions to completion
- Proven track record in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks (and ideally in dealing with fraudulent carrier traffic) and offering practical business solutions
- Skilled in advising on legal risks within contracts, including termination, warranty, intellectual property, indemnity, and liability provisions
- General knowledge/experience with data privacy and data privacy laws (including GDPR)
- Proven ability to perform under pressure providing prompt, accurate responses and work product
- Business-oriented mindset with strong acumen, problem-solving and project management skills
- Diplomatic and tactful with the gravitas to drive consensus and results
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proactive and self-motivated with a track record of challenging and improving on the status quo
- Strong team player with sound, practical, and independent judgement; committed to the highest ethical standards
- Skilled in prioritizing and organizing work in a high-volume, results-driven environment
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple competing priorities effectively
What the job involves
- Vonage’s Legal Department seeks a talented Senior Legal Counsel to support its dynamic business
- The role involves supporting complex, strategic, and straightforward transactions with carrier partners, aggregators, and suppliers worldwide, while serving as a trusted advisor on commercial, compliance, fraud-mitigation, data protection, national security, and legal matters in connection with the identification, negotiation, and in-life management of contracts and counter-parties
- Review, negotiate, and manage contracts with MNOs and other carrier partners (including SMS/RCS-related carrier contracts), aggregators, and suppliers to ensure the company can provide current and new services to customers, protect company interests, and ensure legal compliance
- Provide legal guidance on risk-mitigation and disputes relating to, and other management of, traffic that is phishing or smishing-related, unsolicited, artificially-inflated or otherwise fraudulent or deceptive
- Work with internal teams (e.g., carrier, sourcing, product, security, regulatory, compliance) to mitigate the risk to the business and develop practical solutions and strategies to ensure the effective management of our suppliers, carrier partners, and aggregators
- Provide legal guidance on the development of new products and services
- Collaborate with product legal to ensure E2E support for Vonage products and services
- Enhance and standardize contract templates, processes, and procedures for a global framework that enables effective E2E management of suppliers, aggregators, and carrier partners
Our take
According to Vonage, technology should make business communication easier, but it currently makes it more complicated due to the various communication platforms that users need to spend time learning how to use. Moreover, users often realise that the platform is not the right choice for them after wasting a lot of time understanding how to navigate it. Vonage aims to change this by providing enterprises with a flexible cloud communications platform that simplifies business communication.
Vonage offers a unified communications solution that is easy to understand and use every day. The platform integrates communication via voice, messaging, video, and data and gives clients the flexibility to choose from a wide range of tools and integrations or to create new ones using Vonage's APIs.
Following its acquisition by Ericsson - a multinational networking and telecommunications company - Vonage has been focused on expanding its presence in wireless enterprises and broadening its global offerings. Vonage won the 2022 FinTech Award for Outstanding Cloud Communications Solutions in recognition of its growth and continued dedication to the development of new technologies.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2005
$200m
SERIES E
Aug 2004
$105m
SERIES D
Total funding: $372m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid annual leave
- Flexible working hours
- Medical cover
- Health Savings Account
- Dental and Vision Cover
- Income Protection
- Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Retirement Plan
- Telehealth
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Legal plan
- Career progression
- Training
- Industry conferences
Company values
- Accountability - We do what we say and we own what we do
- Collaboration - We believe different perspectives bring better outcomes
- Trust - We recognize and rely on each other’s talents to achieve excellence
- Excellence - We focus on being the best at what we do
Company HQ
Holmdel, NJ
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Leadership
Rory Read
(CEO, not founder)Member of the Ericsson Leadership Team and Board Member at Booz Allen Hamilton. Previously worked for Dell in a variety of roles, including Chief Operating Executive.
People progressing
Joined as Talent Acquisition Partner (EMEA/APAC), being promoted to Senior Talent Acquisition Partner (Global) after 2 years and currently the Senior Global Head of Talent.
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