Senior Product & Business Counsel

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Position Overview
We are seeking a talented and driven attorney to focus on product development and strategic partnership transactions to join our dynamic legal team. This role will report to the General Counsel. As the Senior Product & Business Counsel, you will play a vital role in supporting our organization's corporate development and product & technology functions by providing comprehensive legal advice and support related to strategic partnerships/transactions and product innovation. You will also play a key role in shaping policies and processes to help our legal department continue to scale. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual looking to expand their legal career within a fast-paced and collaborative environment.
Primary Responsibilities
The below represents the primary duties of the position, others may be assigned as needed. To perform this job successfully, the candidate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Serve as lead legal support for the product and business development organizations.
• Draft and negotiate product development and partnership agreements, inclusive of product integration, co-development, technology licensing, transactions, and other strategic partnerships involving payroll and HCM services and other technology providers based on evolving business needs.
• Independently draft agreements, negotiate, and problem solve on a broad range of complex transactions related to technology, SaaS, strategic partnerships, API integrations, channel partnerships.
• Work closely with corporate development team as well as cross functionally to provide transaction and partnership structure advice at inception of the transaction or project.
• Provide commercially oriented and strategic legal advice and guidance to the business in relation to all aspects of third-party agreements related to product embedment and product offerings.
• Collaborate with commercial team to independently draft, review and manage product terms of use
• and on product initiatives that may impact client-facing terms.
• Analyze products, services, features, and initiatives and provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies.
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to understand and assess new products from early development stages through launch (including AI) and provide post-launch legal guidance/support as key liaison to product and tech organizations.
• Review engineering and product design specifications to assess and maintain compliance with legal and regulatory, compliance. Provide guidance on the incorporation of privacy by design principles into development process.
• Develop, update and maintain templates, negotiation playbooks and product development legal review resources.
• Provide general legal support on an as-needed basis with respect to other areas of the business.

Qualifications

• Excellent communicator, strong negotiator and detail oriented drafting skills
• Strong legal research, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to work independently and cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to handle multiple complex matters concurrently
• Demonstrated success as a key in house counsel partner to product, engineering and business development functions
• Collaborator and team-oriented individual

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree required
• JD required + admission to any State / DC bar
• 8+ years' relevant experience in SAAS and technology preferred.

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals.
We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.
We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.
We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].
This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $130,000-200,000/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers.