General Counsel

Description
C ompany
SDI Presence LLC is an IT consultancy and managed services provider (MSP) that leverages its strong team presence to advance our clients to a secure digital enterprise. With a 25-year corporate resume, SDI delivers strategic managed services, IT consulting, and hybrid multicloud infrastructure solutions to optimize our clients' technology environments. SDI is NMSDC-certified, with a portfolio of clients that includes some of the nation's largest airports, utilities, commercial real estate portfolios, and government agencies. SDI is backed by Abry Partners, a Boston-based sector-focused private equity firm with $5B under management and more than 30 years of experience in the technology market. Visit us at SDIPRESENCE.COM and connect with us on TWITTER and LINKEDIN .
Summary
The Corporate Counsel is responsible for negotiating and drafting a broad range of complex commercial contracts and management agreements. The Corporate Counsel will have a direct reporting relationship to the Chief Financial Officer.
Responsibilities

• Directly negotiating, drafting, and advising on commercial contracts and management agreements, with oversight from Chief Financial Officer
• Partnering with New Business team in responding to RFPs
• Drafting and advising on all types of commercial contracts, including but not limited to professional services agreements, vendor agreements, teaming agreements, subcontractor agreements, licensing agreements, and other commercial agreements
• Experience with governmental contracts (municipal, county, and state)
• Ensuring compliance with governmental contracting regulations
• Meeting compliance with Company policies, including overseeing contracting compliance for outside vendors
• Identifying and assessing legal risks and opportunities within areas of responsibility and educating clients and business partners accordingly
• Overseeing compliance with subpoenas and information requests
• Independently handling legal matters or projects
• Experience with IP licensing and compliance
• Recognizing when the advice of the Chief Financial Officer or outside counsel is appropriate
• Advocating the Company's interests in assigned matters
• Serving as an indispensable partner to the Executive Management Team
• Ensuring adherence to time-sensitive deadlines
• Invest time understanding what is important to individuals or groups (e.g., clients, colleagues, suppliers)
• Build rapport and use questioning and active listening skills to develop an understanding of issues
• Use influencing skills and well thought out arguments to develop consensus
• Adapt own interpersonal style to meet the needs of different individuals
• Contribute ideas and opinions in a confident, straight forward way
• Demonstrate confidence to tackle difficult issues

Requirements

• 5+ years of legal experience at a law firm or in-house position
• Strong technology and commercial contracting experience. Must have extensive experience drafting, negotiating, and reviewing a wide variety of commercial contracts and technology agreements, including software and technology licensing, master services, statements of work, supply and distribution, cloud technology, cloud hosting, data colocation, domain-name ownership, SaaS, XaaS, resellers, professional services, and nondisclosure agreements.
• A J.D. from an accredited law school, including an active bar membership
• Demonstrated superior collaboration and relationship building skills
• Outstanding critical reasoning and analytical skills
• A strong background in contracts
• Technology Savy

Other Duties Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
SDI Presence is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
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Staffing Firms SDI Presence does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruitment agencies. We are not responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions, or any other payment related to unsolicited resumes or CVs except as required in a written contract between SDI Presence and the recruitment agency or party requesting payment of a fee.