Director of Legal Counsel

Join Axiom, a leading provider of legal talent and services. As the Director of Legal Counsel, you will negotiate agreements, develop customer-centric solutions, and support business operations while ensuring legal compliance. You will report to the General Counsel and work closely with cross-functional teams. This role requires a Juris Doctorate degree, 15+ years of experience, and a strong ability to communicate complex ideas.

• Negotiate agreements with customers and develop customer-centric solutions to ensure legal compliance.
• Support business operations by providing direction and counsel regarding compliance with laws and regulations.
• Anticipate customer needs and influence the development of innovative solutions to address current and future requirements.

• Juris Doctorate degree (or equivalent) from an ABA accredited law school Licensed in good standing to practice law in at least one State
• Current member of the bar or able to be admitted to the inhouse counsel bar
• 15+ years’ experience (10+ prior inhouse counsel experience required)
• Experience supporting operations outside of the United States
• Experience negotiating and drafting service agreements, license agreements, subcontracts, marketing agreements, real estate leases, non-disclosure agreements, confidentiality agreements and consulting agreements
• Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles
• Anticipates internal and/or external business challenges
• Communicates highly complex ideas to multiple organizational levels
• Develops innovative new concepts, services, technologies or products to address current and future customer requirements
• Contributes to the development of functional strategy
• Anticipates customer needs to influence the development of innovative solutions
• Solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business
• Demonstrated ability to successfully build relationships and work with cross-functional teams. Detail-orientation and ability to balance competing priorities and manage multiple projects simultaneously under deadline pressure
• Works effectively across the organization to create broad acceptance for ideas/initiatives
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to deliver in a demanding and entrepreneurial environment in a timely manner
• Makes decisions within functional, business unit, company or industry guidelines
• Operates with limited supervision in a complex environment
• Recommends process, product or service improvements