Contracts Counsel Operations Legal Seattle, WA
Company: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
Location: Seattle
Posted on: February 1, 2025
Job Description:
Remote Hybrid:Persons in these roles are expected to spend part
of their time on-site in our Seattle offices and may occasionally
work remotely from their home in the Greater Seattle area. On-site
requirements vary based on position and team. If you have questions
about Hybrid work arrangements for this role, please ask your
recruiter.Compensation Range: $110,000 - $170,000Who You Are:You
are an agile thinker who is energized by creative problem solving
and building things. You enjoy reviewing and negotiating a broad
range of contracts involving technology, services, and day-to-day
operations. You are able to listen to a group's business needs,
identify priorities, and maximize business results. You are able to
juggle competing demands from many interested and energetic
stakeholders.Who We Are:We are an existing legal team of two
lawyers and one contracts and procurement manager. We are collegial
and collaborative. We like to make up fun project names for our
strategic initiatives. We work in a hybrid setting and like to
collaborate in person. We all work with a large amount of autonomy.
As a team, we are slightly more pro-dog than pro-cat. We are
passionate about Ai2's mission.Essential Functions:
- Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of standard
procurement and operations agreements, such as NDAs, vendor
services, IT, software/SaaS, hardware, facilities, and events.
- Prepare exploratory and strategic agreements for various
projects and initiatives, including MOUs, data sharing, and
collaboration agreements.
- Review and draft product EULAs, terms of use, and related
documentation.
- Create and improve contract templates.
- Review open source licenses for software and AI projects.
- Provide support across Ai2's activities ensuring that legal
issues, contracts, disputes, and complex transactions are conducted
within the due diligence of the legal framework.What You'll
Need:Education/Certifications:
- Minimum Degree required: JD.
- Licensed to practice law in Washington State.Required:
- 3+ years of transactional experience in a law firm or corporate
environment.
- Proficiency in technology transactions, including software and
IP licensing.
- Self-starter: Does not need daily directions or close
supervision to make decisions.
- Skilled in working with ambiguity.
- Comfortable identifying and solving for risks.
- Ability to adjust rapidly to new strategies and approaches for
building support in a fast-moving environment.
- Excellent presentation and facilitation skills: polished,
concise, catered messages to different audiences.
- Ability to build strong relationships with leaders at all
levels to obtain successful outcomes and move the business
forward.
- Ability to work on complex issues where problems are not
clearly defined and where fundamental principles do not fully
apply.Preferred:
- Experience and/or interest in project management to establish
or improve processes and streamline legal team efforts with
existing workflows in the company.Physical Demands and Work
Environment:The physical demands described here are representative
of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform
the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations
may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the
functions.
- Occasionally required to remain seated in a normal position for
long periods of time.
- Regularly required to walk short distances.
- Regularly required to maintain balance while walking, standing,
crouching, or running.
- Routinely required to reach up and out with hands and arms.A
Little More About Ai2:Ai2 is a Seattle based non-profit AI research
institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Our mission is
building breakthrough AI to solve the world's biggest problems. We
develop foundational AI research and innovation to deliver
real-world impact through large-scale open models, data, robotics,
conservation, and beyond.In addition to Ai2's core mission, we also
aim to contribute to humanity through our treatment of each member
of the Ai2 Team. Some highlights are:
- We are a learning organization: because everything Ai2 does is
ground-breaking, we are learning every day. Similarly, through
weekly Ai2 Academy lectures, a wide variety of world-class AI
experts as guest speakers, and our commitment to your personal
on-going education, Ai2 is a place where you will have
opportunities to continue learning alongside your coworkers.
- We value diversity: We seek to hire, support, and promote
people from all genders, ethnicities, and all levels of experience
regardless of age. We particularly encourage applications from
women, non-binary individuals, people of color, members of the
LGBTQA+ community, and people with disabilities of any kind.
- We value inclusion: We understand the value that people's
individual experiences and perspectives can bring to an
organization, and we are building a culture in which all voices are
heard, respected and considered.
- We emphasize a healthy work/life balance: we believe our team
members are happiest and most productive when their work/life
balance is optimized. While we value powerful research results
which drive our mission forward, we also value dinner with family,
weekend time, and vacation time. We offer generous paid vacation
and sick leave as well as family leave.
- We are collaborative and transparent: we consider ourselves a
team, all moving with a common purpose. We are quick to cheer our
successes, and even quicker to share and jointly problem solve our
failures.
- We are in Seattle: and our office is on the water! We have
mountains, we have lakes, we have four seasons, we bike to work, we
have a vibrant theater scene, and we have so much else. We even
have kayaks for you to paddle right outside our front door. We
welcome interest from applicants from outside of the United
States.
- We are friendly: chances are you will like every one of the
200+ (and growing) people who work here. We do.Ai2 is proud to be
an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon
race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy,
childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation,
gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status,
sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as
an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally
protected characteristics.This employer participates in E-Verify
and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9
information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the
U.S.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to
employees and applicants with disabilities to the full extent
required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you feel
you need a reasonable accommodation pursuant to the ADA, you are
encouraged to contact us at recruiting@allenai.org.
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