Senior Counsel- Products and Platforms

Senior Counsel - Products & Platforms

Location:

Anywhere in Country.

EY’s General Counsel’s Office (GCO) supports EY’s business by serving as trusted advisors to the EY community, providing the highest quality legal services to EY’s service lines and business enablement functions.

As a Senior Counsel on the GCO Technology and Managed Services team, you will provide advice, counsel, and legal support in respect of the provision of technology products and platforms to EY clients. Your focus will be on advising, drafting, updating, and negotiating client‑facing software licenses and SaaS agreements, artificial intelligence, big data, analytics, cloud computing, and related technologies. You will also offer internal legal advice and support to various EY technology and product teams throughout ideation, innovation, and go‑to‑market.

• Draft and negotiate client‑facing product and platform agreements, including advising on contractual strategy and risk, and keeping up to date with relevant legal developments.
• Collaborate closely with other members of the US GCO as well as local counsel in other EY member firms.
• Collaborate closely with intellectual property counsel and procurement counsel on the development and commercialization of various products and platforms.
• Support coordination with cross‑functional business and internal support teams (Data Privacy, Information Security, Independence, Quality and Tax) as necessary.
• Understand existing EY policies and help enhance policies and guidance relevant to technology products and platforms.
• Support and advise internal product teams in the development of new products and platforms.
• Gain a working understanding of the full range of tools, products and platforms required to be supported in order to provide effective product counsel.
• Manage workflow in a highly dynamic environment and remain highly responsive, reliable, communicative, and accountable to team leadership and other members of the GCO.
• Be adept in cross‑functional settings and provide practicable legal advice to internal product teams and business stakeholders.
• Build relationships and team seamlessly with other members of GCO, within the Legal Practice Groups, as appropriate, to deliver exceptional legal service to internal stakeholders.
• Develop and deliver training on product and platform agreements, knowledge sharing, and best practice across the legal network and business, where requested or appropriate.
• Continuously learn, contribute and innovate in a dynamic space.

• 7+ years of relevant technology‑related transactional experience in a client‑facing capacity, including drafting and negotiation of product and platform agreements.
• A strong background in supporting SaaS, software licenses, emerging technologies and a variety of go‑to‑market delivery models.
• Experience developing contracting templates, playbooks and standards.
• Adept at leveraging legal and other collaboration tools and technology to optimize teaming.
• Experience in data privacy, data security, licensing, and intellectual property law.
• Experience with cross‑border contracting (including local country agreements and cross‑border data transfer).
• Ability to understand, assess, and negotiate terms for current and new technologies (including cloud and AI), and explain the related legal and business risks in a practical manner.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Excellent negotiation and interpersonal skills.
• High degree of cultural and emotional intelligence, and demonstrated aptitude for resilience, flexibility, and ability to adapt to changing circumstances and dynamics.
• Ability to work independently and team effectively with colleagues in other functions and geographic locations.
• Ability to grasp, understand, and accurately articulate and document complex legal and contractual principles, and balance risk from both a legal and commercial perspective.
• Highly responsive with ability to manage high workload volumes and competing priorities efficiently and effectively.
• Solution oriented with focus on exceptional client service.
• Experience in a product counsel role in a technology or consulting organization…