Senior Manager, Senior Counsel - Software Product Counsel; Hybrid

Capital One Software provides enterprise B2B software and data management solutions to help other businesses accelerate their cloud journeys, manage cloud costs, and secure sensitive data. These products are based on tools Capital One developed internally to support its own large-scale cloud and data management operations, making the bank's technology innovations available to the wider market. The Capital One Software Legal team needs help to support this high growth business.

As a Senior Manager/Senior Counsel and a product counsel for Capital One Software, you will apply your acumen and analytical skills to a major, strategic initiative for Capital One. You will partner with our Capital One Software business to identify and solve legal risk alongside a team of world‑class professionals. This role will need to tackle specific, nuanced legal issues related to selling a commercial software product.

You understand the law, the commercial software industry, and the technology itself (open source software, development, APIs, the cloud, etc.). You are fluent in and fluidly transition between Legalese, English, and Developer speak. You are comfortable talking to developers and Sr. Executives. You are able to take complex legal topics and explain them in a succinct and cohesive manner.

You don't know everything about everything, but when you read a draft of a presentation or article about Bayesian networks, multi-cloud, or dynamic linking you're the type of person who wants to learn what those things are. You're not frustrated by things you don't know about; you're intrigued.

Understanding the commercial software business, fostering innovation through an understanding of the applicable law, and working around the corners of novelty. You'll be something of an explorer. You will use more than just legal skills to advise the business on strategic initiatives and issues.

Collaborating closely with colleagues across the Legal Department to fully vet and scale risk. You'll work to push responsible innovation in challenging gray areas. You'll nurture new products as they grow and launch in a highly regulated environment.

You are the Legal point person for a commercial software product or products. You own the Legal issues, including drafting product terms, conducting export control analysis, or advising the product team on sanctions screening requirements. Don't worry though, you'll have plenty of support from your Capital One Legal Department colleagues.

You will oversee Capital One Software deals related to your product from start to execution. You will serve as the transactional escalation point for all major deals and you must be able to effectively and efficiently prioritize competing deals to support Go To Market and Sales strategies.

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school
• Active member in good standing of at least one state bar
• At least 4 years of experience as an attorney in a law firm environment, at a government agency, as a military judge advocate, or as in‑house counsel

• 2+ years of experience in advising technology companies or banks
• Familiarity with Open Source community interpretation of Open Source licenses
• Knowledgeable about copyright law as applied to software
• Experience drafting commercial software license agreements or product terms
• Understanding cloud technology and a wide variety of other technology areas
• Ability to identify effective methods of protecting intellectual property created from software, hardware and internet related products and services
• Effective oral and written communication skills in communicating business and intellectual property issues with and between developers, engineers, and business leaders
• Ability to assist in‑house and outside litigation counsel in patent litigation issues
• Strong analytical and computer skills

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

This role is hybrid meaning associates spend 3 days per week in‑person at one…