Legal Services Counsel – Operations

The Global Services Legal team is seeking to appoint counsel to act as Services Counsel. In-house, public sector and private practice candidates will all be considered, but experience of working with international teams in a global business and a passion for supporting innovative technology and taking products and services to market are pre-requisites.

At Accenture we put innovation at the heart of everything we do and coupled with our core values of client value creation, one global network, respect for the individual, best people, integrity and stewardship, we offer careers that provide unparalleled opportunities for career growth and job satisfaction.

The mission statement of Global Services Legal is to “drive sustainable business growth for Accenture by providing deep legal expertise at the intersection of business strategy, industry and technology in a highly dynamic environment.” The Global Services Legal team is a strategic partner and a product counsel towards the four Services under Accenture’s Next Generation Growth Model, i.e., Interactive, Strategy & Consulting, Technology and Operations.

This team also functions as the integrator between various other parts of the Legal team, coordinating between the multidisciplinary areas of deep expertise across the wider Legal team, to deliver one holistic Legal perspective to the business.

See https://www.accenture.com/us-en/about/operations-index for more information about the Accenture Operations businesses.

Key Responsibilities

The role includes delivering and coordinating legal counsel in support of the Operations Business strategy, working to help the Operations Business manage and mitigate risks, comply with laws and company policies, and undertake ethical considerations in its endeavors. Key responsibilities of the Services Counsel include:

• Reviewing global software products and providing practical legal risk analyses, mitigation strategies, and client facing terms for those products.
• Working with the Operations Business teams to evaluate the technology related to Operations Business offerings including reviewing inbound technology and data supply templates/agreements and outbound or client facing templates in different geographies, industries and regulatory environments.
• Collaborative working with the Operations Business teams to evaluate and prepare new offerings for market, with varying deal structures that may include managed services, consulting services, software as a service, licensed software (including mobile apps), and third party data in different geographies, industries and regulatory environments.
• Learning and understanding the technology and uses of data related to the offerings well enough to prepare templates/agreements.
• Developing clear communication messages, guidance, templates and trainings regarding the components of offerings and services for sales and go to market teams, offering development teams, technical teams and the rest of the Legal organization on how to bring software products and offerings to market in a legally compliant and strategic manner.
• Reviewing and understanding complex alliance and vendor technology transaction agreements and advising internal procurement professionals on preferred positions.
• Taking on assignments as required by the designated Legal Lead.

The role will report into a member of the Operations Services Counsel leadership team, and involve close alignment with the rest of the Global Services Legal team.

• JD degree or equivalent degree or legal qualification.
• Admitted to the bar (or local equivalent) and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law. An understanding of contracting under US law for a global corporation is preferred.
• 6+ years’ legal experience of relevant attorney work, including:
  • Functional understanding of legal issues related to bringing software products to market in a legally compliant manner, including offerings utilizing machine learning, third party data.
  • Technology transactional experience either in drafting and negotiating technology focused client facing and/or vendor facing agreements, in a law firm or in a fast-paced in-house legal department.
  • Working knowledge of: (a) data and security privacy issues; (b) IP law; (c) open source licensing; and (d) general product development considerations.
  • Risk analysis, appreciation, prioritization, and management.
• It is preferred that candidates would have:
  • In-house experience
  • Interest in technology and particularly in new technologies such as artificial intelligence
  • Experience of training other lawyers
  • Product liability knowledge
• You will:
  • Be a self-starter, prepared to work in start-up/entrepreneurial environment
  • Have a proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
  • Have excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills (including explaining legal issues and the real-world impact of the issues in a way that is understood by non-lawyers)
  • Demonstrate good judgment, an ability to prioritize and make decisions, and spot and mitigate risks
  • Thrive in a constantly changing environment by showing high adaptability and comfort with ambiguity, pathfinding in the new.
  • Be proficient in the use of MS Office Suite of products; and
  • Be proficient at speaking English.