Senior Counsel
About This Team and Role
Join Verra Mobility as a Senior Counsel, and you will join a dynamic legal team that operates in true partnership with our innovative business teams. This role will report to the Associate General Counsel and be responsible for providing broad-based legal support. Your work will span a wide range of legal subject matters, and each week will bring fresh and varied challenges. We are a legal team that celebrates our responsibility for driving growth and success for our company. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, and in a business focused on profitable, rapid, and sustainable growth, then this opportunity is for you.
What You’ll Do
The successful individual will need to be able to work independently and will lead a high volume of legal assignments and complex, cross-functional legal initiatives, including contracting, legal research, compliance matters, disputes, M&A, employment matters, litigation, corporate governance, 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.
In addition, the responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
- While collaborating directly with our business teams you will be:
- Drafting, negotiating, and managing customer contracts, commercial partnership contracts, licensing agreements, channel marketing agreements, and complex vendor agreements;
- Advising on and optimizing legal risk, product, commercial 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:
- 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 Privacy team and counsel, provide business-oriented resolutions;
- Collaborating with IP counsel on patent and other IP related matters;
- Assisting with mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions including due diligence, transaction documentation, and post-closing integration support;
- 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 stakeholders;
- Supporting the Associate General Counsel with day-to-day legal management and workflow;
- Supporting other legal team leaders with special projects, as needed;
- Handling fire drills.
What we're looking for
- 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 contracting 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.
Nice to have!
- Experience at a law firm servicing business clients
- Experience as an in-house attorney
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.
- Choose Courage Over Comfort. We lean into the conversations, decisions and actions that move the business forward, even when they feel uncomfortable. We challenge assumptions, address issues early and prioritize progress over ease.
- 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.
With your explicit consent which you provided as part of the application process, we will retain candidate personal data solely for the business purpose for which it was collected. In no event will we retain such data more than two (2) years following the closure of the recruitment process relating to the role for which you applied or in the event other related job opportunities arise within the company. Verra Mobility Applicant Privacy Notice
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.
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