Senior Counsel

This position will be responsible for drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide range of contracts, including master service agreements, statements of work, partnership agreements, licenses, employment agreements, and settlements. The role requires knowledge and experience in commercial transactions, the ability to produce high quality work in a fast-paced environment, strong business acumen and superior communication skills.  This individual must be a problem solver who can identify substantive legal and business issues and proactively provide creative solutions to executives.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Core Responsibilities

• Draft, review and negotiate complex commercial contracts in collaboration with internal account teams and external clients and vendors. Examples include Confidentiality Agreements, Master Services Agreements, Statements of Work, Waivers & Releases, Employment Agreements, Independent Contractor Agreements, Licensing Agreements, Settlement Agreements, Sponsorship Agreements.
• Critically analyze and make sound recommendations to legal and business managers with respect to contractual negotiations.
• Partner with Human Resources by providing counsel on labor and employment matters and up-to-date direction on applicable changes in legislation or case law.
• Research and advise business leaders on various transactional issues (e.g., indemnification, IP and limitations of liability), as well as other marketing law issues (e.g., ownership, content licensing, privacy, user generated content, crowdsourcing, promotions law, waivers & releases).
• Provide counsel to legal and business leaders on marketing, data security issues.
• Proactively counsel account teams on how to mitigate risk by providing creative solutions that balance legal and business interests.
• Perform pre-litigation work to minimize risks and assist account teams in resolving disputes to ensure consistent and cost-effective handling of legal and business matters, including management of outside counsel.
• Research unique legal issues impacting the Company and identify new statutes and case law applicable to the Company's activities.
• Provide training to the company and its affiliates on substantive legal topic

QUALIFICATIONS:

• JD from accredited United States law school and active membership in Texas Bar
• 6-10 years of experience practicing law; consulting or media experience strongly preferred
• The company works at the cutting edge of technology across several sectors and so a keen understanding of technology and how it relates to commercial contracts is a must
• Significant experience with contract negotiation required and labor/employment experience preferre
• Familiarity with intellectual property and privacy law preferred, but not required
• Must have exceptional interpersonal, project management and communication skills with the ability to identify and analyze complex legal or business issues and communicate potential solutions to employees at all levels

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Consistent use of hands and fingers to operate a mouse and keyboard
• Occasionally required to walk, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, stoop and kneel
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally

WHO WE ARE:

• Credera is a full-service management consulting, user experience, and technology solutions firm, with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to emerging industry leaders
• Credera has received a number of state and national awards! Please check out our employer awards at: https://www.credera.com/awards-and-recognition
• The Management Consulting practice helps our clients tackle their most complex business and technology problems by providing breadth and depth of market expertise, a strategic eye for people, processes, and tools, and excellent program and project leadership
• The Management Consulting practice serves our clients across a broad spectrum of areas, specializing in Strategy & Operations, Digital (e.g., Marketing Technology, Customer Experience, eCommerce, etc.) Organizational Change Management, and Program & Technology Project Leadership

HYBRID WORK MODEL:

Our employees have the flexibility to work remotely two days per week. We expect our Crederians to average 3 days (full or partial) per week in person with the flexibility to choose the days and times that work best for both them and their project or internal teams. This could be at a Credera office, at a client site, or at an off-site location with other team members. You’ll work closely with your project team to align on how you balance both the flexibility that we want to provide with the connection of being together to produce amazing results for our clients.
The why: We are passionate about growing our people both personally and professionally. Our philosophy is that in-person engagement is critical for our ability to develop deep relationships with our clients and our team members – it’s how we earn trust, learn from others, and ultimately become better consultants and professionals.

Travel: Our goal is to keep out-of-market travel to a minimum and most projects do not require significant travel.  While certain projects can require frequent travel (up to 80% for a period of time), our average travel percentage over a year for team members is typically between 10-30%. We try to take a personal approach to travel. You will submit your travel preferences which our staffing teams will take into account when aligning you to a role.

LEARN MORE:

Credera is a management consulting, user experience, and technology solutions firm with offices in Dallas, Denver, Houston, Chicago, and New York. We work with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to emerging industry leaders, and provide expert, objective advice to help solve complex business and technology challenges. Our deep capabilities in strategy, organization, process, analytics, technology and user experience help our clients improve their performance. Clients depend on our ability to anticipate, recognize, and address their specific needs. Credera’s consultants work with some of the world’s best known brands in a variety of industries, including one of the top five fast food chains, leading energy organizations, retailers, airlines.  More information is available at www.credera.com.  We are part of the OPMG Group of Companies, a division of Omnicom Group Inc.

Along with a great company culture, Credera provides an outstanding compensation package including a competitive salary, a performance bonus, and a comprehensive benefit plan (e.g., medical, dental, disability, matching 401k, PTO, etc.).  This position is an exempt position. 

Credera will never ask for money up front and will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. You should be very wary of, and carefully scrutinize, any job opportunity that asks for money prior to starting and/or one where all communications take place exclusively via chat.