Canonical - General Counsel (Office based)
Requirements
• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university. • A degree in law, or equivalent, and an active licence to practice in an EMEA or Americas jurisdiction. • Substantial senior in-house experience in a global technology or software business. • Proven experience leading a distributed legal team, including managing managers across regions and time zones. • A track record of setting and holding a high performance bar: hiring well, developing people, and dealing with under performance directly rather than waiting it out. • Experience building or restructuring an in-house legal function, including deciding what is retained, delegated and sent to external counsel. • negotiating and owning commercial technology contracts, including enterprise software and subscriptions, channel and reseller agreements, hardware manufacturer agreements, cloud and services • advising on open source licensing, including permissive and copyleft licences, and familiarity with how open source communities operate. • Experience of, or demonstrable readiness for, public company governance: listing preparation, board and committee support, disclosure and controls. • Depth in at least two of: data protection and privacy, IP and trademark, export controls and trade, competition, or disputes. • Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, hold colleagues accountable, and share ideas without hesitation. • Professional written and spoken English with excellent drafting and presentation skills. • Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability. • International travel two to four times a year for company events up to two weeks long. • Experience taking a company through an IPO, or practicing as counsel inside a listed company. • A technical or engineering background, or fluency in how software is built and shipped. • Experience of a subscription or recurring-revenue business model. • Experience building or restructuring an in-house legal function. • A qualification in more than one jurisdiction.
Benefits
• We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally. • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person. • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year. • Bi-annual compensation review. • Company recognition rewards. • 40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and our All Company holiday periods. • Maternity and paternity leave. • Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform. • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, with Priority Pass for lounge access. • Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. We are founder-led, profitable, and growing. • Powered by worldwide distributed collaboration since our inception in 2004, we believe tech and business leadership can emerge anywhere. We have no central headquarters. Most of us work from home, but we are exceptionally disciplined about this. We have very high expectations of all colleagues, and are champions of excellence. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
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