Director, Legal EMEA

Director, legal EMEA

Location: Remote (Paris, France based)

Employment Type: Full-Time

SUMMARY

The role of Director, Legal EMEA will be responsible for all EMEA commercial transactions, including managing multiple attorneys, with a primary focus on sales transactions for SaaS offerings, subscription software, and professional services. This position will negotiate and drive strategic transactions and a significant volume of sales agreements, as well as counsel the sales team and other relevant groups on a variety of licensing, intellectual property, commercial, data security, privacy, and management of outside counsel.

This position will directly report to the Associate General Counsel. This position will also support and advise senior sales, human resources, finance, compliance and executive management on a variety of issues relating to policy compliance, entity management, commercial, and privacy topics. This position will also help with projects to improve processes that pertain to general corporate legal compliance and legal terms for all business areas.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage, lead, and support development of a legal team which is responsible for EMEA with the support of the Associate General Counsel. Responsible for talent selection, management, development and retention. Responsible to assist with other geographies as needed in this evolving role.
• Lead high-level Legal Department projects and change management. Collaborate with multiple stakeholders (including Sales, Sales Ops, Finance, HR, Compliance, and Product Engineering) to drive business results.
• Counsel the senior sales, human resources, finance, and compliance teams on a variety of issues relating to policy compliance, entity management, commercial, and privacy topics.
• Draft, review, negotiate and advise company on sell-side SaaS and software license agreements and amendments transactional matters, as well as other commercial or corporate agreements such as NDAs, Data Processing Agreements and vendor agreements. Manage outside counsel advising company on transactional matters. Work with internal stake holders including but not limited to General Counsel, HR, Finance
• Develop and deliver training on legal issues and work with other internal teams to support continuous improvements of forms, policies, and processes to help streamline, simplify and automate value-added processes
• Conduct legal research and drafts points, authorities, and briefs as directed by the General Counsel
• Extensive interaction with cross-functional teams at all organizational levels with an expectation of maintaining high levels of responsiveness and customer service.
• Improve efficiency and compliance by changing processes and training the cross-functional teams.
• Work with HR and Compliance Team on various issues, including but not limited to, privacy related matters.
• Being a great teammate who supports the collective success of the legal team through collaboration, integrity, humility, and respect, all within a productive and good natured environment.

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• 12+ years commercial and technology legal experience.
• 5+ years of in-house legal practice in a technology, SaaS, and software.
• In-house experience with a business-oriented focus on the sell-side negotiation of software, SaaS, and technology related license agreements.
• Proven history of being a practitioner in the art of negotiation and creative solutions.
• Experience with direct interaction with both internal and external clients and across all organizational levels.

PREFERRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Strong sell-side commercial transactions background.
• Experienced in the practice of delivering creative solutions throughout the transaction life-cycle.
• Experience with employment law matters.
• Experience with data privacy laws and compliance.
• Experience with intellectual property issues

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Strong sell-side commercial transactions legal background, sell-side SaaS and software license experience.
• Experienced in the practice of delivering creative solutions throughout the transaction life-cycle.
• High degree of independence, initiative, judgement, and decisiveness.
• Ability to deliver results, both as an individual contributor and as a member of the global legal teams.
• Capacity to lead projects and coordinate external advisors.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly digest complex information and informed decisions.
• Must be self-motivated with high energy.
• Strong analytical, attention-to-detail, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the drafting of agreements and giving advice in plain English & French.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

Who We Are

OneStream is how today's Finance teams can go beyond just reporting on the past and Take Finance Further by steering the business to the future. It's the only enterprise finance platform that unifies financial and operational data, embeds AI for better decisions and productivity, and empowers the CFO to become a critical driver of business strategy and execution. Our vision is to be the operating system for modern finance, digitizing core financial functions and empowering the CFO to become a critical driver of business strategy. To learn more visit

Why Join The OneStream Team

• Transparency around corporate structure, salary, and benefits.
• Core value of customer success.
• Variety of project work (not industry specific).
• Strong culture and camaraderie.
• Multiple training opportunities.

All candidates must be legally authorized to work for any company in the country where this position is located without sponsorship.

OneStream Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer.