Legal Counsel

Overview

Are you passionate about growing your legal career with a hypergrowth B2B SaaS startup company?

Do you love to build? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments?

Our Legal Counsel opening could be the perfect opportunity for you!

As a Legal Counsel for HYCU, you will play a critical role in ensuring that our business operations comply with legal requirements and that our interests are protected.

You will provide expert legal advice, manage contracts, mitigate risks, and contribute to strategic decision-making processes.

This role requires a deep understanding of SaaS business models, intellectual property law, contract law, data protection regulations and commercial negotiations.

Location :

Boston, MA (Hybrid; 3 days onsite / 2 days remote)

What You’ll Do :

• Ensure HYCU's compliance with relevant laws and regulations governing SaaS businesses, including data protection laws, intellectual property rights, consumer protection laws and industry-specific regulations
• Draft, review, negotiate, and finalize a wide range of contracts, including SaaS agreements, service level agreements (SLAs), terms of service, software licenses, partnership agreements, vendor contracts, SOWs and NDAs
• Identify legal risks associated with business activities and develop strategies to mitigate those risks. Advise on risk management strategies and ensure appropriate risk allocation in contracts and agreements
• Protect HYCU's intellectual property (IP) rights by managing trademark registrations, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets.

Conduct intellectual property due diligence for new products and services

• Provide guidance on corporate governance matters, including board meetings, corporate filings, compliance policies and corporate structuring
• Advise on data privacy and security issues, including GDPR compliance, data processing agreements, privacy policies, etc.
• Conduct legal due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, investments, and partnerships. Assess legal risks and liabilities associated with potential transactions
• What We’re Looking For :
• Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school (or equivalent) and member of the bar in good standing
• Minimum of 7+ years of experience practicing law, with a focus on technology or SaaS companies strongly preferred.
• Proven experience supporting sales organizations and customer contracts is a must have
• In-depth knowledge of SaaS business models, including subscription agreements, licensing models and cloud computing
• Strong understanding of intellectual property law, contract law, data protection regulations and commercial transactions
• Strong expertise dealing with commercial contracts
• Excellent negotiation, drafting, writing and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
• Curiosity about technology and a desire to learn and impact functional areas across HYCU
• Extreme attention to detail, and ability to prioritize, think, and act quickly while juggling multiple projects
• High level of integrity, professionalism and ethical conduct

It’s Great if You Have :

• B2B SaaS experience
• Experience within data protection, cloud-native, security, data storage industries is a plus
• Drive to build with fast-growing SaaS company
• Employment law experience is a plus

Attributes of a Successful HYCUer :

• Takes responsibility and ownership for driving successful outcomes. You’re results-driven with a winning attitude
• Team player! You have excellent people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams and third parties
• Hands-on and builders' mentality with an entrepreneurial mindset and intrinsic motivation
• Obsessed with being customer-focused We know our customers and are advocates for their voice and point of view across HYCU
• Intellectual curiosity, always open for continuous learning / growth mindset

Who We Are :

Our Core Values : Authenticity, Grit and Empathy are at the heart of everything we do at HYCU. All of us at HYCU take ownership in shaping and contributing to our culture.

We pride ourselves in developing an inclusive and diverse company that supports our employees and customers to do extraordinary things.

The following is how we approach each Core Value :

Authenticity To be authentic means to be who we are and do it well. Focus your energy on being who YOU are. Be true to yourself.

Authenticity also extends to our products. Understanding where we are truly the best fit for our customers and when we are not.

And finally, authenticity in relationships : ensuring that we are honest and do what we say we’re going to do.

Grit To win we need to want it. Every team member needs to be able to jump in and help at every turn. Whether it’s staying late to help a colleague or customer or finding a better process and making sure it’s communicated cross-functionally.

You just have to do it and love it and never stop trying.

Empathy We need to care about each other, about our clients, about our business, and about the world around us. That might seem like a tall order, but if we don’t live in a constant state of empathy, if we don’t strive to truly put ourselves in another person’s shoes, we cannot truly serve the market.

We are at our best when we stay true to our Core Values." Simon Taylor, CEO

What We Offer :

Come work for one of CRN’s . At HYCU you’ll have the opportunity to build your career with a Visionary B2B SaaS company from .

HYCU provides an excellent benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401K match, generous time off, and more.

We offer career development programs and an inclusive global culture. All our employees participate in our equity program.