EMEA Legal Counsel - Product & Commercial
Legal Team | Dublin, Ireland
Join Dropbox as its first legal counsel based in Europe and play a central role in partnering with our growing teams in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. We're building a legal team to pursue Dropbox’s mission of helping people have their stuff everywhere and share it easily, while protecting our users around the globe. Our technology, vision, and team make this a great place to impact people around the world.
As our first legal counsel based outside of the US, you’ll have a broad range of responsibilities counseling the company on commercial, data protection, regulatory, product and other issues. You’ll develop and implement legal processes tailored for fast-moving EMEA operations. You’ll structure commercial partnerships, negotiate and draft a wide variety of agreements, and counsel on a variety of issues. Entrepreneurial by nature, you will have immediate impact with your analytic rigor, uncanny judgment, effective counseling, ability to get things done, and a “we not I” approach. If you are a person with user-driven instincts who loves a challenging, team-focused, and fast environment, then this is the place for you.
Responsibilities
- Take accountability for important issues and decisions and see them through.
- Review, draft and negotiate all types of agreements - including inbound, outbound and partnership agreements.
- Advise technical and business development teams from the initial stages of product development, through launch, to market strategy.
- Design, build, and improve legal department processes to keep up with hyper growth.
- Manage internal projects, trainings, processes, and drive cross-functional efforts to successful completion across all of our EMEA offices.
Requirements
- Experience with and passion for commercial law, intellectual property, licensing, data protection, and information policy.
- Skilled at negotiating, drafting and interpreting technology agreements.
- Experience counseling and implementing go-to-market strategies.
- Experience counseling product development and working with designers, engineers, and product management.
- Excellent writing, communication, verbal and written, and organizational skills.
- Eager to learn new technologies and ideas. Comfortable navigating complicated and nuanced issues.
- Great interpersonal skills and ability to work well in fast paced team environment.
- 6+ years legal experience in a relevant setting. In-house experience is strongly preferred but not required.
- BA/BSc/LLB degree, qualified lawyer.