Sr. Specialist, Legal

ABOUT US

Syniti is an innovative, global leader in Enterprise Data Management. With smart and powerful resources like our award-winning software platform and premier consultants, Syniti helps the world’s top enterprises create unique advantage and value with their data. Whether the goal is bringing new products to market faster, accelerating time-to-value for a new ERP system or corporate acquisition, powering new AI/ML initiatives, or increasing profitability by eliminating inefficiencies, Syniti ensures your business’s data is a high-performing and trusted asset. Syniti is also a preferred data solution used by the world’s top system integrators, and a portfolio company of BridgeGrowth Partners LLC. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in 25 countries around the world, Syniti operates in all global regions and industry verticals, and maintains a 100% client success rate across thousands of complex data projects and initiatives.

The ROLE

The Sr. Corporate Legal Specialist will be responsible for contract drafting, negotiating, data protection law, IT Law and International Law. This role will work with the Director of Contracts, Americas and the global legal team to support the company's legal affairs including licensing and contract negotiation, DTA compliance, and advising internal and external customers on day-to-day legal matters.

This role has been designated as a remote position.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Provide timely and pragmatic legal counsel meeting critical internal and vendor timelines
• Review, draft and negotiate strategic commercial contracts, including DPA’s, software licenses, master services agreements, SaaS agreements as well as vendor agreements
• Serve as subject-matter expert on data privacy and data processing agreement (DPA) and commercial agreements/contracting
• Ensure business compliance, including regulatory, employment law and data protection compliance
• Proactively review current legislative changes to ensure compliance with all regulatory bodies
• Manage large volumes of transactions and several projects simultaneously, seeking appropriate inputs from various internal stakeholders while engaging proactively with business clients
• Synthesize and summarize information efficiently to allow informed and reasonable decisions on complex issues escalated for legal review
• Provide legal advice on complex technology transactions
• Exercise independent judgment to bring in stakeholders as necessary and update management on status of projects

WHAT IT TAKES

• Law degree from an accredited law school
• 7+ years of commercial legal experience
• 5+ years of experience in data protection, IT service contracts and general contract matters
• Proven contract drafting and negotiation abilities
• Sound working knowledge of data protection, commercial & IT/IP law, preferably gained in an international environment
• Experience with software and software licensing issues
• Professional working proficiency in English
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to present and lead meetings at all levels
• Well organized, multi-tasker, able to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Experience in a deadline driven environment with an ability to effectively manage and prioritize workload
• Proactive and mature approach in decision making under high pressure
• Competent problem solver, possessing excellent influencing and negotiating skills
• Proven ability to interact with people at all levels globally with the ability to absorb and respect cultural differences

WHAT WE OFFER

Trust that you are good at what you’re doing. At Syniti you will find a supportive environment and access to learning tools, but micromanagement is not our thing.

Growth. We are growing rapidly and steadily solving the biggest challenges enterprise companies are faced with today. There was never a better time to join and grow with us. Most importantly you will have the chance to shape our journey and share in our success story.

Support. We all rely on each other and enable each other to be successful. You won’t stand alone.

Curiosity and genuine interest in you. We all have our different stories, all equally fascinating with each depicting a different journey and we want to hear them all.

Recognition. We are the sum of individual achievements and we always take the time to celebrate them.

An open organisation. Hierarchies are not our thing and access is something we make sure of across the board. We are a family where everyone is just as important, everyone’s work is seen and ideas valued.