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The mission statement of Global Services Legal is to “drive sustainable business growth for Accenture by providing deep legal expertise at the intersection of business strategy, industry and technology in a highly dynamic environment.” The Global Services Legal team is a strategic partner and a product counsel towards the four Services under Accenture’s Next Generation Growth Model, i.e. Song, Industry X, Technology and Operations.

This team also functions as the integrator between various other parts of the Legal team, coordinating between the multidisciplinary areas of deep expertise across the wider Legal team, to deliver one holistic Legal perspective to the business.

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GLOBAL SERVICES legal counsel: CL8 (associate Manager)

job description: Global Services legal

Key Responsibilities

• Working with the Accenture’s businesses, including Technology & Security to evaluate software, technology and services offerings to prepare those offerings for market, considering potential legal and other risks.
• Reviewing global software products and providing practical legal risk analyses, mitigation strategies, and client facing terms for those products.
• Working with the business teams to evaluate the technology related to their businesses including reviewing inbound technology and data supply templates/agreements and outbound or client facing templates in different geographies, industries and regulatory environments.
• Developing clear communication messages, guidance, templates and trainings regarding the technology/data components of software and platforms and services for sales and go to market teams, software development teams, technical teams and the rest of the Legal organization on how to bring software products to market in a legally compliant and strategic manner.
• Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating complex alliance and vendor technology transaction agreements and advising internal procurement professionals on preferred positions.
• Taking on assignments as required by the designated Legal Leads.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Basic Qualifications

• Education: JD or equivalent degree or legal qualification and admitted to the bar (or local equivalents) in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law.
• 4+ years’ legal experience of relevant attorney work, including:
  • Functional understanding of legal issues related to bringing new technology and software products to market in a legally compliant manner, including those utilizing machine learning, AI, third party data.
  • Working knowledge of: (a) data and security privacy issues; (b) IP law; (c) open source licensing; and (d) general product development considerations.
  • Understanding connection between in-bound agreements and client-facing agreements.
  • Risk analysis, appreciation, prioritization, and management.
  • 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), in a law firm or in a fast-paced in-house legal department or military group.
  • Fluency in English with strong oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of or strong interest in learning about cybersecurity, AI or other emerging technologies.
• Experience analyzing complex facts and situations to provide risk analysis and mitigation strategies.
• Understanding or willingness to learn applicable regulatory landscapes as required, including with respect to data protection and privacy.
• Track record of developing trusted relationships with senior business leaders.
• Experience shaping deals and evaluating innovative commercial models for new products and services.

Professional Skills:

• Commitment to a creative, inclusive, and diverse workplace.
• Ability to build a sense of belonging in a team and establish a sense of common purpose inside the larger Accenture Legal department.
• Focus on analysis of the business, guidance to the right business and legal teams, industrialization of more mature processes, and active enablement of our off-shore legal teams to handle mature work.
• Open to learning, working with and understanding cross-cultures and locations throughout the Accenture global organization.
• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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