Vonage is looking to hire a full-time expert legal counsel focused on providing Legal support to our global Carrier Management Team (CMT) to help innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide.
Requirements
- Strong in-house legal experience with fast-paced, sales-driven tech, telecom, SaaS, or cloud communications companies
- Significant experience in advising product organizations across the product lifecycle
- Proven ability to manage complex, high-pressure transactions, particularly with MNOs and other carrier partners and suppliers
- General knowledge of data privacy laws (including GDPR) with experience integrating compliance into commercial work
- Skilled in navigating cross-functional reviews and approvals in matrixed organizations
- Exceptional attention to detail, verbal/written communication, and diplomacy to drive consensus
- Proactive, self-motivated team player with proven multitasking and stakeholder management skills
Responsibilities
- Provide specialist legal advice to developers/engineers/architects/product managers/product marketing managers/corporate marketing/events relating to the development of products and solutions
- Develop and support customer-friendly, compliant, and risk-appropriate templates for products and solutions
- Serve as the Legal Department's subject matter expert in relation to Vonage products
- Collaborate with product and legal/compliance to ensure E2E support for Vonage products and services
- Provide legal guidance on risk-mitigation and disputes relating to traffic that is phishing or smishing-related, unsolicited, artificially-inflated or otherwise fraudulent or deceptive
- Negotiate with major MNOs and MVNOs and other sophisticated suppliers
- Work with internal teams to mitigate the risk to the business and develop practical solutions and strategies to ensure the effective management of our suppliers, carrier partners, and aggregators
Other
- Admitted to at least one state bar in the US (or UK-qualified solicitor or barrister in the UK) with 7+ years post-bar admission/qualification experience
- Business-oriented mindset with strong acumen, problem-solving and project management skills
- High integrity with a commitment to ethical standards and effective transactional leadership
- Ability to work with international counterparties across diverse jurisdictions
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders
