Senior Legal Counsel

About Us Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions that defeat cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary As Senior Legal Counsel in the commercial legal team at Sophos you will provide expert and timely legal guidance to the business on a wide range of commercial matters. The day to day will involve negotiating, drafting, and reviewing commercial contracts including those arising from our supplier, channel, and customer streams, as well as dealing with queries and novel scenarios from the business as they arise. You will be keen to dive in, find out more about our solutions and work with the business and will work closely with internal departments at Sophos to forge good working relationships and ensure legal risks are managed effectively. This role demands a proactive, solution driven expert with business acumen who can think through a problem and advise in clear and succinct language.

What You Will Do

• Form a key part of a dynamic global commercial legal team providing legal support and advice to a growing cyber security business.
• Negotiate a wide variety of supplier, customer and channel agreements (including DPAs) in jurisdictions globally, leveraging your legal knowledge and bringing an astute commercial approach.
• Advise on legal risk on new and ongoing business projects and go to market offerings.
• Manage a wide variety of internal customer queries using our Jira ticket system, prioritizing according to business need.
• Draft bespoke contracts to deal with commercial issues pragmatically.
• Establish and maintain relationships with different parts of the business to understand Sophos’ business needs to allow your negotiations to focus on relevant risks and enable you to provide practical solutions.
• Identify areas for business improvement and work to improve processes, looking for efficiencies in systems to improve our reach and help manage the company’s overall risk.
• Engage in team meetings, thriving on healthy debate in an atmosphere where we all strive to learn from each other as key contributors.

What You Will Bring

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited US law school and licensed to practice law in the US.
• A minimum of 8 years of commercial legal experience, with at least 5 years in an in-house counsel role, ideally in an IT environment.
• You will be a team player with an ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Expertise in contract law and commercial transactions with attention to detail and a business mindset.
• Strong negotiation and communication skills coupled with a risk based, pragmatic approach.
• An ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities effectively, keeping calm whilst under pressure.
• Strong analytical skills and solution orientated.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience dealing with public sector contracts and tender processes, particularly in the US
• Data privacy experience
• Desirable: German language skills