Corporate Counsel, Emea

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Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations' greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That's why we're a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Role

The Associate Corporate Counsel will join an EMEA & APJ legal team, reporting directly to the Senior Director, Legal EMEA. You will have appetite for innovation as part of a small team in a fast-growing, multi-cultural environment, as well as willingness to learn and expand knowledge in the areas of privacy, competition and intellectual property.
The successful candidate will be comfortable leading interacting with internal and external business people, and making agile decisions that comply with company standards, policy and strategy as well as evolve Proofpoint practices.

Your Day to Day

• Partnering with the sales organisation internationally, providing guidance and counsel on customer related queries
• Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial, revenue-generating agreements (including NDAs, data privacy documents and Master Subscription Agreements)
• Provide legal analyses of applicable laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact customer license and services agreements, and assist in the design and implementation of appropriate policies and practices
• Collaborate with the broader legal team in enhancing its capabilities and services efficacy through technology and other legal operations tools and best practices
• Assist in development and implementation of various legal templates, forms, communications, and operational systems to improve the delivery and scalability of legal resources to a worldwide, distributed client base by working collaboratively with other legal team members and the sales organization
• Proactively communicate issues back to leadership and drive good business, legal and operational processes and practices throughout the organisation; drafting and implementing related policies, and seeking ways automate key legal processes
What you bring to the team:

• Fully Qualified lawyer
• Experience in practice, and also ideally in-house experience in the High-Tech industry
• Ideally you will have experience of partnering with Sales teams in a fast-paced environment that requires client- interaction, sound judgment, excellent counselling skills and ability to prioritise
• Sound knowledge and understanding of the core principles of SaaS, Software, and Intellectual Property and/or licensing
• Experience handling data privacy and security issues
• Excellent negotiation skills and diplomacy, including ability to build consensus, "soft" skills to encourage, motivate and influence at all levels of the organization and those of our customers and partners
• Enjoy working with internal clients, demonstrating accountability, adaptability and resilience
• Strong drafting skills with keen attention to detail and the ability to improve our forms and work using customer or partner paper
• Effective communication and presence in person, in groups, over video and teleconference, email and in more formal documentation
• Highest degree of personal and professional integrity and ethics
• Fluent English is essential; plus fluency in Italian, Spanish, Arabic or Dutch language is beneficial

Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We're a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly 'culture-add', and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint!

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Proofpoint Best Places to Work Awards

Proofpoint was honored with 9 Best Places to Work Awards in 2023 by workplace culture leader, Comparably. To view additional awards, visit

People-Centric

Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.

Disrupting the Status Quo

We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers' sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.

Making a Difference

Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.

About Us

At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today's advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:

• Build and enhance our proven security platform
• Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture
• Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel
• Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That's why we're a leader in next-generation cybersecurity-and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.