Senior Legal Counsel - Commercial

Bangalore, Karnataka
Permanent
Full-time

1 month ago

Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.The OpportunityAre you a highly motivated and proactive legal professional with experience in commercial contracting? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, international environment and have a strong passion for technology? If so, join our dynamic and innovative team at Nutanix. Nutanix is the recognized world leader in Hyperconverged Technology. We are growing fast. In less than a decade, we have gone from a brand-new start-up to a public company with over 18,000 customers and 6000 employees. We have offices all over the world, and over a billion in revenue, but we still operate like the scrappy disrupter that we are.About the TeamAbout Your Manager:Your manager for this role is the Senior Director of Legal for APAC. Lan is known for her dedication to fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment. She values open communication and strives to provide her team with the necessary resources and support to succeed.Our team is founded on three pillars: * Partnership- We strive to be the easiest company in the tech sector with which to do business. Easy for our customers. Easy for our internal teammates.

Service-We to our best every day to enable our teammates to drive revenue, increase market share and build winning relationships with our partners and customers.
Integrity-Our sense of ethics is of paramount importance to team Nutanix

Your RoleReporting into the Senior Legal Director for the APJ region, you will play an important role in ensuring Nutanix's continuing success by working closely with our sales teams, partners and customers with a high degree of pragmatic commerciality too facilitate the close of revenue generating transactions and help to establish key strategic alliances in the APJ region. You have a strong work ethic and flexibility and are comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy and ambiguity. You are a pro-active legal professional with a penchant for helping to build a vibrant business and have a strong bias for action. You feel comfortable working in a fast paced international and multi-cultural environment and enjoy working across multiple internal company disciplines. You are curious about complex technology and strive to be a highly visible key component in a rapidly expanding business that deals with some of the largest enterprises in the world.What you'll do:

Contribute to our commercial success and growth goals as an integrated strategic business advisor and enabler.
Review, draft and negotiate strategic opportunity-specific commercial agreements, including non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), software license agreements, partner agreements, procurement contracts, services agreements and strategic alliance agreements.
Work on complex and high value revenue generating commercial transactions and high visibility procurements.
Collaborate with others within Legal Department and cross functionally to ensure that the company is able to book and recognize revenue, minimize risk and to protect our intellectual property.
Provide staff legal training and manage external counsel relationships.
Monitor contract performance by determining compliance to contract and regulatory requirements and coordinate with management and other internal groups to ensure these requirements are being satisfactorily fulfilled.
Develop, improve and draft templates and process documents.

What You Will Bring

10-15 years' post-qualification experience practicing commercial law in a reputable law firm and in-house with a global enterprise technology company.
Demonstrated understanding of the APAC landscape and country/culture differences.
In-house commercial contracting experience dealing with various software transaction and sales models, including SaaS, Cloud and Hybrid Cloud and on-premise software licensing.
Experience working with public sector/government, financial service/banking, large enterprise customers as well as services vendors is preferable.
Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.
Strong negotiator and critical thinker.
Familiarity with various revenue recognition rules and accounting standards.
Evidence of strong knowledge of privacy issues.
Ability to work concurrently on a variety of projects and able to “keep all the balls in the air”.
Ability to work with both entry-level colleagues and senior management across the business.
Ability to successfully work independently but also able to use good judgment and escalate issues when needed.
Sound time management skills with the ability to effectively prioritise work.
Fluency in written and spoken English.

How we workThis role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. For most roles, that will mean coming into an office a minimum of 3 days per week, however certain roles and/or teams may require more frequent in-office presence. Additional team-specific guidance and norms will be provided by your manager.--Nutanix is an equal opportunity employer.Nutanix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and (in the U.S.) an Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other category protected by applicable law. We hire and promote individuals solely on the basis of qualifications for the job to be filled. We strive to foster an inclusive working environment that enables all our Nutants to be themselves and to do great work in a safe and welcoming environment, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation or harassment. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by contacting .

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