Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Infosys is a global IT services and digital consulting company seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to join its Americas Legal team. The role supports U.S., Canada, and Latin America sales teams by negotiating commercial agreements, providing legal and business counsel, managing external counsel, ensuring compliance with corporate risk policies, and leading legal and organizational projects.

Responsibilities

• Negotiating various agreements with external clients and vendors; providing legal and business counsel to internal clients to resolve issues; managing external counsel (as applicable); ensuring that all agreements are concluded in accordance with Infosys’ corporate risk parameters and policies and working or leading various department and organization projects as assigned
• Project Management Skills - experience overseeing and closing multiple projects and transactions simultaneously. Ability to organize, prioritize and manage deadlines in a fast-based and demanding work environment
• Ability to identify and manage legal and business risk
• Approx. 15 – 20% - business travel may be required

Skills

• Candidates authorized to work for any employer in the United States without employer-based visa sponsorship are welcome to apply
• A minimum of 5 years' legal work experience after law school graduation
• JD from an accredited law school; with strong academic performance
• Must be a member of a State Bar
• Blend of relevant law firm and in-house experience
• At least 4 years of prior in-house experience
• Experience with litigation (including mediation and arbitration); responding to complaints; drafting settlement agreements; etc
• Excellent drafting skills: demonstrated experience with commercial transactions, specifically the drafting and negotiation of, but not limited to, the following types of agreements: 1) complex master outsourcing services and technology-related agreements; 2) software licensing agreements; 3) software reseller and services agreements; 4) sponsorship and marketing agreements; 5) teaming agreements; 6) RFPs and RFIs; 7) settlement agreements ; 8) non-disclosure agreements; 9) statement of work(s) ; 10) subcontractor agreements; and 11) cloud hosted services agreements
• Project Management Skills - experience overseeing and closing multiple projects and transactions simultaneously
• Ability to organize, prioritize and manage deadlines in a fast-based and demanding work environment
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team with rapidly changing deadlines and priorities
• Commitment to ethics and integrity; professionalism and attention to detail and the ability to maintain strong working relationships with demanding internal clients
• Ability to identify and manage legal and business risk
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
• Sense of humor
• Preferably transactional IP/IT focused
• Background in outsourcing, information technology, data privacy, intellectual property, software licensing, export control compliance, SaaS, dispute/conflict resolution and litigation (preferred)

Benefits

• The role offers remote flexibility
• As a full-time Infosys employee you are also eligible for the following benefits: Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
• Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness , Hospital Indemnity, Legal)
• 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

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