[Hiring] Legal Counsel @Amdocs

Role Description

As Legal Counsel in the Legal Department’s Global Business Group, you will be a partner and trusted advisor to Amdocs’ business group, drafting and negotiating a variety of technology licensing, professional services, SaaS, managed services and other commercial agreements, as well as providing legal consultancy and participating in business decision making processes and promoting legal, regulatory, and Amdocs policy compliance, all in collaboration with other Amdocs units, including finance and tax, and external customers and vendors.

You will be responsible for:

• Drafting, negotiating and managing legal aspects of all forms of commercial agreements.
• Supporting pre-sales activities in North America.
• Providing ongoing post-closing legal support to internal business clients.
• Utilizing innovative legal tech platforms and collaborating with broader legal teams.
• Interfacing with a highly collaborative and interactive legal/business team.
• Interacting with business clients, management, and outside customers regarding complex commercial agreements and transactions.
• Providing legal analyses and risk assessments.
• Participating in business decision making processes, providing practical and issue-focused legal advice and recommendations.
• Leading the legal aspects of commercial negotiations with internal and external customers and vendors.
• Working on cross-department and cross-company legal projects.

Qualifications

• Law degree from a recognized law school with solid record of academic achievement.
• Admission to the Bar in good standing in at least one US jurisdiction.
• At least 5+ years commercial and transactional legal experience (either in-house at a global hi-tech company or in an international law firm environment) with strong background in IT licensing, professional services and other services agreements.
• Experience working in complex, dynamic and fast-paced environments.
• Experience in business risks analysis and handling business needs in a complex and ever-changing environment.
• Outstanding negotiation skills.
• Strong customer-facing orientation.
• Ability to conclude agreements of strategic importance with others inside and outside the organization that have widely differing perspectives and objectives.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Analytical thinking ability and strong attention to detail.
• Highly motivated to learn and leverage legal tech solutions.
• Ability to effectively work remotely in an environment where partners and counterparties are often not in the same location.

Benefits

• Work for a dynamic international company.
• Responsibility to negotiate technology and services agreements with leading communications providers.
• Interact with a variety of internal and external customers.
• Provide business-sensitive legal advice.

Company Description

Amdocs helps the world’s leading communications and media companies deliver exceptional customer experiences through reliable, efficient, and secure operations at scale. We provide software products and services that embed intelligence into how work runs across business, IT, and network domains – delivering measurable outcomes in customer experience, network performance, cloud modernization, and revenue growth. With our talented people, and more than forty years of experience running mission-critical systems around the globe, Amdocs runs billions of transactions daily. Our technology is relied on every day, connecting people worldwide and advancing a more inclusive, connected world.

At Amdocs, our mission is to empower our employees to 'Live Amazing, Do Amazing' every day. We believe in creating a workplace where you not only excel professionally but also thrive personally. Through our culture of making a real impact, fostering growth, embracing flexibility, and building connections, we enable them to live meaningful lives while making a difference in the world.