Senior Counsel, Product

Who we are

Verra Mobility Commercial Services is a global leader in smart mobility, creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for millions of vehicles around the world through connectivity with hundreds of tolling and issuing authorities. As a future focused organization, we are looking for people who want to create relevant solutions today that will work tomorrow ensuring more people around the world reach their destination safely and easily.

Culture

Verra Mobility Corporation is a rapidly growing, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values-Do What's Right, Lead with Grace, Win Together, and Own It-in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow aggressively, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with these five core competencies: bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.

Position Overview:

Join the Verra Mobility as Senior Counsel, Product, and you will join a dynamic legal team that operates in true partnership with our innovative business teams. This role will report to the Deputy General Counsel of the Commercial Services unit, and be responsible for providing both product team and general commercial legal support critical to the business unit. Your work will span a wide range of legal subject matters, and each week will bring fresh and varied challenges. You will ensure that current and future products and services achieve our business objectives and customer expectations through close collaboration with sales, product, operations, and innovation professionals. We are a legal team that celebrates our responsibility for driving growth and success for our company. If you thrive in fast-paced environment, and in a business focused on profitable, rapid, and sustainable growth, then this opportunity is for you.

Essential Responsibilities:

The successful individual will need to be able to work independently and manage a high volume of legal assignments, including product counsel duties, commercial & vendor contracts, legal research, compliance matters, disputes, product issues, and special projects. The role is ideal for someone that loves being a lawyer but also enjoys business, appreciates process orientation, makes risk-adjusted decisions, loves winning, and accepts shared accountability for the metrics of commercial success.

The responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• While collaborating directly with our business teams tasked with developing and launching new products and feature enhancements you will be:
  • Advising on and optimizing legal risk, and compliance considerations, while suggesting creative, business-supportive solutions;
  • Operating as first-level review of privacy policies, terms, user agreements, and ensuring they are aligned with product strategy and anticipated use cases;
  • Issue-spotting potential legal challenges, and running them to ground; and
  • Proactively identifying and anticipating emerging legal and regulatory issues that might impact our products and services.
• Additional duties include:
  • Drafting, negotiating, and managing commercial contracts, licensing agreements, NDAs, channel marketing agreements, vendor agreements, etc.;
  • Creating and updating template agreements, and supporting the continuous improvement of contractual standards in response to changes in law and the organization's business needs;
  • Spotting potential privacy issues, and, working with our Data Protection Officer, provide business-oriented resolutions;
  • Collaborating with IP counsel on patent and other IP related matters;
  • Assisting with litigation matters, and other regulatory or stakeholder disputes;
  • Assisting with employment matters, as needed;
  • Managing outside counsel, as required;
  • Developing strong collaborative working relationships with colleagues, and business stakeholder;
  • Supporting the Deputy General Counsel, Commercial Services with day-to-day legal management and workflow;
  • Supporting other legal team leaders with special projects, as needed;
  • Handling the occasional fire drill.

Qualifications:

• JD from an accredited law school and in good standing with a state bar association;
• 5+ years as a practicing attorney with an emphasis on commercial matters and/or prior experience as a product counsel at a technology-focused organization;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex legal issues in a simple, understandable manner with colleagues of varying legal knowledge across the company;
• Ability to work well in time-sensitive situations and fast-paced environments; and effectively manage multiple projects or matters with competing deadlines;
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills;
• Solid business instinct and judgment;
• High degree of organization and efficiency with demonstrated attention to detail;
• Strong collaborative skills, and proven team orientation;
• Personal integrity, sound judgment, and strong ethics in business and personal conduct;
• Enthusiasm, energy, and motivation to contribute and thrive in a growing company where roles continually adapt as the company evolves; and
• Adaptable and comfortable with change, organizational evolution, and ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a law firm servicing business clients;
• Experience as an in-house attorney; and
• Experience in a product counsel role.

Verra Mobility Values

An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:

• Own It. We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
• Do What's Right. We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
• Lead with Grace. We express humility and compassion, and we are authentic and candid. Our employees demonstrate self-awareness, care for others, instill trust, and communicate effectively.
• Win Together. We believe in growing and inspiring people together. We seek people who collaborate, value differences, think and act globally, foster an engaging work environment, and recognize and develop others.

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Verra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.