Legal Counsel, SonarSource
3-4 days a week in office
Code quality management platform
Be an early applicant
Code quality management platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
3-4 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To enable developers and development teams to write clean code and remediate existing code organically, so that they can focus on the work they love and maximize the value they generate for businesses.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant working experience in a similar legal position. Prior law firm and in-house experience with an international company is preferred
- Legal qualification in the jurisdiction of the home office
- Proven experience with negotiating software agreements and advising on employment laws
- Bachelor's degree (ideally in law or a similar field)
- The ability to prioritize and juggle multiple work assignments at once
- A start-up mentality, including a willingness to roll up your sleeves, clear blockers, think creatively, and support the business to drive projects to completion
- Excellent English written/verbal communication skills
- Flexibility with work schedule to accommodate occasional calls outside of your regular time zone
- Working knowledge of Salesforce, LinkSquares, and/or ServiceNow is an asset
What the job involves
- We are looking for someone to be an integral part of Sonar’s legal team, helping ensure that our work gets done effectively and efficiently
- We work collaboratively and cross-functionally, so you can expect to be responsible for a wide range of projects including negotiating legal agreements, resolving queries from customers and clients, and pitching in with maintaining our legal files and playbooks
- This role is based in our Geneva, London, or Bochum offices
- The exact title for the position will depend on the candidate, as we are open to a range of backgrounds and seniority levels
- Negotiate software (SaaS) license agreements and vendor agreements in support of our sales and purchasing teams
- Advise on employment matters with support from outside counsel and our General Counsel, including performing legal research, preparing and updating employment-related templates and policies, and providing legal training and support for our people team
- Collaborate within the legal team, as well as with members of our sales, purchasing, people, finance, and IT security teams
- Tackle special projects that come our way, given that we are a fast-growing and innovative technology company
Salary benchmarks
Our take
It has been reported that bug-prone software costs enterprises close to $3 trillion every year, and with developers now handling higher volumes of code than ever, SonarSource’s products automatically ensure that only clean code is embedded when they update software.
The company was founded in Switzerland in 2008, and has become the market leading platform for code quality control. While its first decade was encouraging, the period from 2018 and today has been an astounding period of hyper growth.
It has earned Unicorn status, opened up offices across Europe, as well as in the US and Asia, and counts the likes of Nasa, Microsoft, and IBM amongst its customer base. Indeed, the vast majority of the Fortune 100 use SonarSource.
With its position at the head of the market established, SonarSource is aiming to expand its headcount and continue its momentum, especially in the US and Asia-Pacific, where the tech industry is booming
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2022
$412m
LATE VC
Nov 2016
$42.6m
LATE VC
Total funding: $454.6m
Company benefits
- Safe work culture - we value respect, kindness, and the right to fail.
- Flexible hours - we schedule our days in order to be effective at work, while also being able to enjoy life’s important moments.
- Great people - we value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly and laid back. Still, that does not prevent us to be passionate leaders in our domains. Our 300+ SonarSourcers from 33 different nationalities can relate!
- Work-life balance - keeping a healthy work-life balance is important. This is why we have a hybrid work policy and some people prefer working some days from home.
- Always keep learning - in an ever-changing industry, learning new skills is a must, and we're happy to help our team to acquire them.
Company values
- Continuous innovation: Our R&D teams continuously innovate to make it easier for all developers to deliver clean code.
- Continuous feedback: Community inputs help us build new features that are impactful and valuable to users.
- Continuous enhancements: To strive to continuously improve and enhance existing features to provide more value to customers.
Company HQ
Vernier, GE
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Leadership
Olivier Gaudin
(CEO)Co-founded SonarSource in 2008 alongside Freddy Mallet and Simon Brandhof, who have since moved on. Previously worked at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, before becoming Head of Development at Marketing Services company CIFEA DMK.
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