Senior Counsel, Technology Contracting & Compliance

Senior Counsel, Technology Contracting & Compliance 

POSITION PROFILE

Provides legal advice on technology and other commercial contracts, including contract drafting, review, and negotiation, as well as other legal matters affecting Ricoh’s business.  Primary legal advisor for privacy and data security.   

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Reviews, drafts, and negotiates commercial agreements, including contracts with customers and/or suppliers/partners spanning topics including SaaS agreements, supplier/reseller agreements, professional and hardware maintenance services; managed services; licensing agreements; sales agreements and leases; supply agreements; and labor outsourcing agreements.
• Advises the business on privacy and data security, including data breaches and cross border privacy matters.
• Provides legal advice for new offerings for services, hardware, and technologies.
• Advises internal business clients on legal issues that arise during the operation of the company related to commercial law and legal compliance.
• Provides legal advice, guidance, and training to internal corporate clients on legal and risk issues arising from both the long-term strategy and the day-to-day business of the company.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS (Education, Experience, and Certifications)

Typically Requires:

• At least 5 years of business law experience, negotiating contracts in the technology sector.
• At least 5 years of data privacy law experience.
• Experience in privacy compliance, artificial intelligence, and data breach response is preferred.
• A degree from a reputable, accredited law school & admission to the bar of at least one state.
• Excellent academic credentials.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical abilities.
• Legal and business acumen.
• Strong negotiation and persuasion skills.
• Well-organized and able to work under pressure in variable, fast-paced environment.
• Proactive, flexible, self-starter that embraces projects where conditions may be dynamic and evolving.

Working Conditions, Mental and Physical Demands

• Typically, an office environment with adequate lighting and ventilation, and a normal range of temperature and noise level.
• Work assignments are diversified.  Interpret, comprehend, and apply complex material, data, and instruction – prepare, provide, and convey diversified information.
• Minimal physical effort required.  Work is mostly sedentary but does require walking, standing, bending, reaching, lifting, or carrying objects that typically with less than 10 lbs. (e.g., papers, books, files and small parts, etc.).  Moderate dexterity – regular application of basic skills (calculator, keyboard, hand tools, eye/hand coordination.
• Work has periodic stress due to frequent goals and deadlines, and responsibility associated with the role.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with a job.