Product Counsel Legal Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of global legal professionals focused on go-to-market enablement of software products, including management of team structure, workflow, relationship building, project execution, and creation of reports and risk assessments.
• Support senior business leadership in strategic initiatives, including designing new software products and bringing those products to market.
• Review global software products and provide practical legal risk analyses, mitigation strategies, and enable those products to go to market in a legally compliant and strategic manner.
• Work with business teams and legal SMEs to evaluate the technology and use cases related to new products, including reviewing inbound technology, data supply, regulatory challenges and internal client-facing templates in different geographies.
• Develop clear communication messages, guidance, templates and trainings regarding the technology/data components of products for go-to-market teams, development teams and the rest of the legal organization on how to bring software products to market in a legally compliant and strategic manner.
• Help in design and implementation of tools and processes to enhance request management, legal risk assessments and coordination with business and other legal colleagues.
• Preserve path to productization by providing guidance to transaction teams on operational and contractual measures to take before deal closure.

• Minimum of 12 years of experience at a law firm and/or as in-house counsel at a technology company, in managing software products and/or services offerings, complex commercial arrangements (client, alliances, and/or vendor side).
• Hold a Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school.
• Passion for supporting innovative technology and taking software products, agentic frameworks and services to market.
• Fluency in English with strong oral and written communication skills.
• Experience working with international teams in a global business, open to working with and understanding cross-cultures throughout the Accenture global organization.
• Team management experience, including training of junior team members, with remote employees across multiple time zones.
• Individual achiever that can operate with minimal oversight and direction.
• Track record of developing trusted relationships with business leaders.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changes in business strategies.
• Technology transactional experience in drafting and negotiating technology-focused client-facing and/or vendor-facing agreements (e.g., data licensing, SaaS agreements, cloud, software license agreements, or software development agreements).
• Working knowledge of data and security privacy issues; IP law; OSS licensing; and general product development considerations. Understanding the connection between inbound agreements and client-facing agreements.
• Appetite for tech enablement of legal, including exploring the capacity and implementation of legal AI agents.
• Proficiency using Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
• Experience leading teams, mentoring legal team members, and supporting career development.

Accenture offers a market‑competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long‑term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

Compensation varies by location and role level. Example ranges (annual salary) are listed below:

• California $132,500 to $338,300
• Cleveland $122,700 to $270,600
• Colorado $132,500 to $292,200
• District of Columbia $141,100 to $311,200
• Illinois $122,700 to $292,200
• Maine $112,900 to $249,000
• Maryland $132,500 to $292,200
• Massachusetts $132,500 to $311,200
• Minnesota $132,500 to $292,200
• New York $122,700 to $338,300
• New Jersey $141,100 to $338,300
• Virginia $122,700 to $311,200
• Washington $141,100 to $311,200

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