Strat Growth Init Counsel Sr Manager

Accenture in the Philippines; Mandaluyong; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in the Philippines seeks a senior legal professional to review global software products, provide risk analyses and enable compliant go-to-market strategies across geographies. You will collaborate with business teams and legal SMEs to evaluate technology and use cases for new products, including data, regulatory challenges, and client-facing templates.

Develop clear communications, guidance, and trainings on technology/data components for go-to-market teams and coordinate with other

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience at law firm or in-house counsel in technology.
• Experience with software products and complex commercial arrangements.
• Strong English communication skills.
• Experience with international teams across time zones.
• Tech transactional experience (data licensing, SaaS, cloud, licenses).

Responsibilities

• Review global software products and provide risk analyses and go-to-market strategies.
• Collaborate with business teams and legal SMEs across geographies.
• Develop communications, guidance, templates and trainings for go-to-market teams.
• Design and implement tools to enhance request management and risk assessments.
• Guide transaction teams on contractual measures pre-deal closure.

Skills

Fluency in English

Team management

Relationship building with business

Self-motivated

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

• Review global software products and provide practical legal risk analyses, mitigation strategies, and enable those products to go to market in a legally compliant and strategic manner.
• Work with Business teams and legal SMEs to evaluate the technology and use cases related to new products, including reviewing inbound technology, data supply, regulatory challenges and internal client facing templates in different geographies.
• Develop clear communication messages, guidance, templates and trainings regarding the technology/data components of products for go to market teams, development teams and the rest of the Legal organization on how to bring software products to market in a legally compliant and strategic manner.
• Help in design and implementation of tools and processes to enhance request management, legal risk assessments and coordination with business and other legal colleagues.
• Preserve path to productization by providing guidance to transaction teams on operational and contractual measures to take before deal closure.

Job Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience at law firm and/or as in-house counsel at a technology company, in managing software products and/or services offerings, complex commercial arrangements (client, alliances, and/or vendor side).
• Passion for supporting innovative technology and taking software products, agentic frameworks and services to market are pre-requisites.
• Fluency in English with strong oral and written communications skills.
• Experience of working with international teams in a global business. Open to work with and understand cross-cultures throughout the Accenture global organization
• Team management experience, including training of junior team members, with remote employees across multiple time zones.
• Individual achiever that can operate with minimal oversight and direction
• Track record of developing trusted relationships with business leaders
• Ability to adapt quickly to changes in business strategies.
• Technology transactional experience either in drafting and negotiating technology focused client-facing and/or vendor-facing agreements (i.e. data licensing, software as a service agreements, cloud, software license agreements, or software development agreements).
• Working knowledge of: (a) data and security privacy issues; (b) IP law; (c) OSS licensing; and (d) general product development considerations. Understanding connection between in-bound agreements and client-facing agreements.
• Appetite for tech enablement of legal, including exploring the capacity and implementation of legal AI agents
• Proficiency using Microsoft Office applications (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint)