Strategic Growth Initiatives Counsel
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About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services - creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 742,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360 value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
Key Responsibilities
Work with the technology business to evaluate software, technology and services offerings to prepare those offerings for market, considering potential legal and other risks.
Review global software products and providing practical legal risk analyses, mitigation strategies, and client facing terms for those products.
Work with the business teams to evaluate the technology related to their businesses including reviewing inbound technology and data supply templates/agreements and outbound or client facing templates in different geographies, industries and regulatory environments.
Develop clear communication messages, guidance, templates and trainings regarding the technology/data components of software and platforms and services for sales and go to market teams, software development teams, technical teams and the rest of the Legal organization on how to bring software products to market in a legally compliant and strategic manner.
Review, draft, and negotiate complex alliance and vendor technology transaction agreements and advising internal procurement professionals on preferred positions.
Take on assignments as required by the designated Legal Lead for Technology and Global Services Legal.
Knowledge Skills And Experience
5+ years’ legal experience of relevant attorney work, including:
Technology transactional experience either in drafting and negotiating technology focused client facing and/or vendor facing agreements (i.e. data licensing, software as a service agreement, cloud, software license agreements, or software development agreements), in a law firm or in a fast-paced in-house legal department or military group.
Functional understanding of legal issues related to bringing new technology and software products to market in a legally compliant manner, including those utilizing machine learning, third party data.
Working knowledge of: (a) data and security privacy issues; (b) IP law; (c) open-source licensing; and (d) general product development considerations.
Understanding connection between in-bound agreements and client-facing agreements.
Risk analysis, appreciation, prioritization, and management.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience analyzing complex facts and situations to provide risk analysis and mitigation strategies.
Understanding or willingness to learn applicable regulatory landscapes as required, including with respect to data protection and privacy.
Track record of developing trusted relationships with senior business leaders.
Experience shaping deals and evaluating innovative commercial models for new products and services.
Behaviours and Attributes
Strong interest in learning about emerging technologies.
Commitment to a creative, inclusive, and diverse workplace.
Ability to build a sense of belonging in a team and establish a sense of common purpose inside the larger Accenture Legal department.
Focus on analysis of the business, guidance to the right business and legal teams, industrialization of more mature processes, and active enablement of our offshore legal teams to handle mature work.
Open to learning, working with and understanding cross-cultures and locations throughout the Accenture global organization.
Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian.
Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian.
Education And Qualifications
Education: JD and admission in good standing with applicable bar association(s) (or their local equivalents)
You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.
Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
Key Responsibilities
5+ years’ legal experience of relevant attorney work, including:
Education: JD and admission in good standing with applicable bar association(s) (or their local equivalents)
You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.
Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services - creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 742,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
Key Responsibilities
Work with the technology business to evaluate software, technology and services offerings to prepare those offerings for market, considering potential legal and other risks.
Review global software products and providing practical legal risk analyses, mitigation strategies, and client facing terms for those products.
Work with the business teams to evaluate the technology related to their businesses including reviewing inbound technology and data supply templates/agreements and outbound or client facing templates in different geographies, industries and regulatory environments.
Develop clear communication messages, guidance, templates and trainings regarding the technology/data components of software and platforms and services for sales and go to market teams, software development teams, technical teams and the rest of the Legal organization on how to bring software products to market in a legally compliant and strategic manner.
Review, draft, and negotiate complex alliance and vendor technology transaction agreements and advising internal procurement professionals on preferred positions.
Take on assignments as required by the designated Legal Lead for Technology and Global Services Legal.
Knowledge Skills And Experience
5+ years’ legal experience of relevant attorney work, including:
Technology transactional experience either in drafting and negotiating technology focused client facing and/or vendor facing agreements (i.e. data licensing, software as a service agreement, cloud, software license agreements, or software development agreements), in a law firm or in a fast-paced in-house legal department or military group.
Functional understanding of legal issues related to bringing new technology and software products to market in a legally compliant manner, including those utilizing machine learning, third party data.
Working knowledge of: (a) data and security privacy issues; (b) IP law; (c) open-source licensing; and (d) general product development considerations.
Understanding connection between in-bound agreements and client-facing agreements.
Risk analysis, appreciation, prioritization, and management.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience analyzing complex facts and situations to provide risk analysis and mitigation strategies.
Understanding or willingness to learn applicable regulatory landscapes as required, including with respect to data protection and privacy.
Track record of developing trusted relationships with senior business leaders.
Experience shaping deals and evaluating innovative commercial models for new products and services.
Behaviours and Attributes
Strong interest in learning about emerging technologies.
Commitment to a creative, inclusive, and diverse workplace.
Ability to build a sense of belonging in a team and establish a sense of common purpose inside the larger Accenture Legal department.
Focus on analysis of the business, guidance to the right business and legal teams, industrialization of more mature processes, and active enablement of our offshore legal teams to handle mature work.
Open to learning, working with and understanding cross-cultures and locations throughout the Accenture global organization.
Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian.
Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian.
Education And Qualifications
Education: JD and admission in good standing with applicable bar association(s) (or their local equivalents)
You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.
Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
Key Responsibilities
5+ years’ legal experience of relevant attorney work, including:
Education: JD and admission in good standing with applicable bar association(s) (or their local equivalents)
You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.
Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
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