Commercial Counsel, Supply Chain, Devices and Services

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• JD, equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.

• 7 years of experience with attorney level work.

• Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status) in the state in which the position is located.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with structuring, drafting, and negotiating a diverse range of commercial agreements (e.g., intellectual property licensing, development, supply, carrier/channel agreements, retail, and marketing agreements).

• Experience performing in high stakes and high pressure environments.

• Experience in consulting, drafting, and advising customers on technology-related commercial agreements, including multi-jurisdictional transactions.

• Experience with semiconductor technologies.

• Ability to work comfortably and be conversational across different business functions (e.g., business development, finance, compliance, product, engineering, supply chain, and HR) and lines of business (e.g. international markets).

• Ability to support direct negotiation with executive legal and business representatives.

About the job

As Corporate Counsel at Google, you work on the most exciting legal issues as disruptive technological innovations require creative and proactive legal guidance. You're part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You are collaborative -- ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with Googlers from all over the company. As an integrated part of the team, you proactively assess legal risks and advise on products that will not only move information into the 21st century, but move information law forward as well.

The Devices and Services Legal team supports the Silicon, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Operations organizations within Devices and Services. As Commercial Counsel, you will work with product, business, and cross-functional teams in strategizing on and drafting and discussing a variety of complex commercial transactions. In this role, you will work with hardware/software development and support agreements, hardware supply chain and component sourcing agreements, inbound services agreements, and statements of work.

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Perform legal analysis, complete complex legal assignments, respond promptly to legal requests from customers and legal colleagues, summarize and communicate legal concepts and potential courses of action.
• Structure, draft, and discuss commercial transactions and intellectual property licenses and agreements.
• Advise on legal and commercial issues and options cross-functionally (i.e., operations, engineering, sales, marketing, finance, tax, compliance, etc.).
• Advise customers on risks and options, complex agreement structures, approval processes, company policies/procedures, IP, and business strategy.
• Support the continuous improvement and scale of standard form agreements, legal processes, and company policies

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.