Senior Legal Counsel, Cohesity
Commercial & Technology Transactions
$189.2-236.5k
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Enterprise data storage solutions
Job no longer available
Enterprise data storage solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$189.2-236.5k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To radically simplify how organizations secure and manage their data, while unlocking limitless value.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about technology and self-directed learning, enjoys being challenged, and uses good judgement in ambiguity
- 5+ years of law firm and/or in-house legal work experience preferably focused on technology transactions
- Law degree from a recognized university and license to practice in the United States. Exceptional candidates without a license to practice in the United States will also be considered
- Specific experience in SaaS, cloud computing, and enterprise software
- Adept at interacting optimally in a highly customer satisfaction focused environment
- Adept at partnering with sales colleagues in fast paced customer facing transactions, proven competencies as a critical thinker and proactive problem solver, with a willingness to roll up his/her sleeves to get into the details and drive creative solutions
- Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills
- Detail-oriented, excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple transactions and projects simultaneously under deadline pressure
- Proven exceptional judgment and integrity with the ability to think strategically and give practical advice appropriately weighing legal and business objectives
- Willingness to be flexible to support time zones across the world
- Ability to thrive in situations that are rarely clear-cut or by-the-book. This team is flexible and inventive; being willing to go beyond your comfort zone is crucial to success
- A strong team player who can work well with business colleagues in high pressure situations
- Committed to his or her personal growth and development by actively seeking feedback and responding with action
What the job involves
- Cohesity is seeking an outstanding lawyer with 5+ years’ technology licensing experience to join our legal team sitting in or near the Pacific time zone
- This position will support our rapidly growing sales team globally, and as such requires flexibility to support time zones across the globe
- This lawyer’s responsibilities will include partnering effectively with sales, deal management, sales operations, finance, and our technical teams
- The successful candidate will also handle general contract matters as vital, and will work closely with other lawyers in the Cohesity legal team, including the Chief Legal Officer
- Negotiate and draft a high volume of sophisticated technology sales and partnering transactions, and a variety of other commercial contracts, including confidentiality agreements, license agreements, data processing agreements, professional services agreements, assignments and amendments
- Develop and implement legal efficiencies to support sales, channel and business development teams and improve our contract processes and operations
- Improve and build contract templates and negotiation playbooks and provide internal training to sales, sales operations and legal operations
- Work closely with sales leadership, deal management and company leaders on strategic initiatives in support of all business verticals and customer-facing transactions
- Provide proactive strategic advice regarding business and legal issues and risks
Our take
At a time when organizations are focused on simplifying data management, mitigating threats from ransomware attacks, and accelerating their move to the cloud, many enterprises and mid-size organizations from around the globe are relying on Cohesity to manage their data. Cohesity offers a suite of secure data storage solutions, consolidating secondary storage silos onto a hyper-converged, web-scale data platform that spans both private and public clouds.
Data protection is the company’s starting point, just as it is with many competitors, but Cohesity has gone further by providing an application marketplace which allows users to run third-party apps on this data, rather than having to move data to those apps.
Since its 2013 launch, Cohesity has grown into one of the world’s most popular data protection services, with a number of Fortune 500 companies on their books as well as NASA and the US Air Force. There are few, if any, signs of slowing down as concerns over ransomware attacks and data simplification become more frequent. The company has seen a consistent rise in its funding rounds and customers and has received a multi-billion dollar valuation.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2024
$150m
SERIES F
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $810m
Company benefits
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Company HQ
Downtown San Jose, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Mohit Aron
(Founder)Started their career as a Staff Engineer at Google before founding Nutanix, where they were the CTO before founding Cohesity. Stepped down as CEO in August 2022.
Sanjay Poonen
(CEO & President)Took over as CEO of Cohesity in August 2022. They hold an MBA from Harvard. Their experience include as a former COO of VMware. Current Board of Director of Snyk and Phillips.
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