About Delinea:
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.
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We are seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel attorney to be a part of our growing Legal team. As Senior Corporate Counsel, you will be an integral part of a business-oriented and collaborative Legal team with a clear focus on enabling the company’s objectives. The successful candidate will be flexible, independent, detail-oriented, professional and collaborative with a strong desire to be part of a growing company. This role is critical to the overall success of the company with responsibility providing support across the organization on a broad range of legal matters. Key areas include corporate governance, corporate policy and procedure, compliance matters, ESG initiatives, international growth, commercial transaction support, and employment and labor support. We are looking for someone objective-oriented, capable of executing to critical timelines, and open to growing and developing new areas of expertise.
While fully supported by the Legal team, this role requires the ability and willingness to operate independently and take initiative in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision. Direct experience supporting a broad range of legal matters, particularly in the areas of corporate governance, compliance and commercial transactions, is required to successfully deliver on this role. Excellent judgment, strong verbal and organizational skills, and the ability to prioritize a rapidly changing workload is expected. You must also have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate with individuals at all levels of the organization in a positive, service-oriented manner.
This role will report directly to the Deputy General Counsel and can either be hybrid based in our corporate headquarters in San Francisco, CA or remote in the San Francisco Bay Area for the right candidate.
What You'll Do:
· Develop and help drive strong corporate governance and related process for U.S. operating company and global legal entities, including implementing relevant corporate policies and procedures.
· Support corporate compliance matters, including implementing and operationalizing key compliance policies in areas of governance, ethics & compliance, and personnel conduct.
· Help develop and scale the company’s ESG efforts, including evangelizing ESG and driving training and awareness programs.
· Advise on and support compliance initiatives relating to a range of general regulatory matters, including anti-bribery and anti-corruption/FCPA, employment and labor regulations, privacy and data management, records retention, and cross-border trade.
· Support corporate development initiatives, including related due diligence activities and transaction documentation for M&A and other strategic transactions.
· Review, draft, and negotiate commercial agreements, including vendor agreements and non-disclosure agreements, working cross-functionally to ensure contractual terms are compliant with legal and regulatory requirements and company policies.
· Assist in managing dispute resolution and litigation, including managing legal holds, investigations, and e-discovery, as well as related risk management.
· Collaborate across all functions to deliver sound and actionable legal advice to effectively achieve business objectives while protecting the company's interests.
· Identify, manage, and resolve legal issues in a manner consistent with the company's business philosophy and strategy, and in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
· Research and assess legal and regulatory matters, prepare internal written positions, advise decision makers on the risks, implement options, and recommend courses of action.
· Develop and present training to various personnel throughout the organization, help drive awareness of corporate governance, legal compliance, and risk management guidelines.
· Other duties and assignments determined by the Deputy General Counsel to support internal stakeholders and continually enhance support function processes for execution of the company's strategies.
· Light travel required for team and company meetings.
What You'll Need:
· Juris doctorate from an accredited law school; admitted to at least one state bar in the U.S.
· Four plus (4+) years of relevant legal experience, including experience at a national law firm and experience working in an in-house legal department (preferably supporting a high-growth SaaS/technology company and/or publicly listed company); proven track record of professional excellence.
· Good working knowledge of legal issues related to: 1) corporate governance, corporate compliance matters (including global anti-bribery/anti-corruption laws) and data privacy and security; 2) employment and labor; and 3) commercial transactions.
· Demonstrated ability to learn on the job and develop in new areas of the law and drive new applications of existing laws to support innovation.
• Experience successfully leading and developing a team, managing personnel, and driving successful team execution against program objectives.
· Exceptional interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills with ability to work in a cross-functional and geographically dispersed environment with multiple stakeholders and teams.
· Highly organized, great attention to detail, ability to work independently and adept at managing and completing several simultaneous projects in a team-oriented environment.
· Strong work ethic with customer-first approach, balancing a sense of urgency with thoughtful execution.
· Strategic thinker with ability to work independently through issues, evaluate risks and choices and make sound judgment even in face of uncertainty.
· Ability to devise business-friendly, pragmatic solutions that reduce risk and enhance value.
· Driven self-starter with a strong ownership mentality, constantly driving work to completion, persistently and creatively identifying and resolving issues.
· High degree of integrity, ethics and trust; highly professional with ability to maintain confidences.
· Enjoys constant learning, is open to feedback and looks for opportunities for self-improvement.
· Proficient with technology, including Microsoft Office 365 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Teams); experience working with board portals and legal matters management tools a plus.
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Why work at Delinea?
We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.
We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.
What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.
At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:
Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do
Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments
Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team
Ownership - We take initiative and follow through
Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment
Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes
We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.
We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.
Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.