Website Google
Minimum qualifications:
- JD degree or similar degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of attorney work experience in business development, intellectual property matters and contract law.
- Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law in California.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in project management.
- Experience in structuring, drafting and negotiating a diverse range of complex commercial agreements (e.g. intellectual property licensing, inbound services agreement, etc.) or high desire to learn.
- Demonstrated experience in successfully performing in high stakes, high pressure environments.
- Transportation and logistics experience.
- Ability to work comfortably and be conversational across different business functions (e.g. product, engineering, supply chain, marketing, finance, compliance, HR) and lines of business (e.g. sales channels, developer program, international markets).
About the job
As Corporate Counsel at Google, you work on the most exciting legal issues as disruptive technological innovations require creative and proactive legal guidance. You’re part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You are collaborative — ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with Googlers from all over the company. As an integrated part of the team, you proactively assess legal risks and advise on products that will not only move information into the 21st century, but move information law forward as well.
This position will be responsible for supporting Google’s rapidly growing global transportation and logistics operations for consumer hardware, including new and innovative businesses and services. You will serve as the primary lawyer responsible for counseling the business on a broad range of commercial, regulatory and compliance matters for all logistics and transportation initiatives, operations and matters. You will work directly with the business, serving as lead counsel on strategic deals and on the launch of new products and services; negotiating, structuring and drafting complex commercial transactions.
20th century laws don’t always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for handling some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you’re a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you take on unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
Responsibilities
- Review, draft and manage licenses and intellectual property agreements, advertising services agreements on a daily basis.
- Manage agreements that comply with company policies and risk tolerance.
- Respond promptly to legal requests from Licensing, Business Development, Advertising Sales, Marketing and other clients, summarizing and communicating legal concepts that business people can use.
- Advise business clients, as well as Finance and other company colleagues, on the legal issues and risks, approval processes, company policies and procedures, IP and business strategy.
- Support the continuous improvement of standard form agreements and legal processes.