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Senior Corporate Attorney (Lead)
About Entrust
Our growing company relies on curious, dedicated and innovative colleagues to anticipate the future and provide solutions for a more connected, mobile and secure world. Entrust technologies and expertise help government agencies, enterprises and financial institutions in more than 150 countries serve and safeguard citizens, employees and consumers. Each year, our solutions secure billions of transactions — and every day, our technologies issue and manage more than 10 million secure identities. How do we do all of this? Together. Join us. Together we’ll create solutions for a more connected, mobile and secure life. For more information, visit www.entrust.com . Follow us on Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Position Overview
Entrust is looking for an experienced, practical, and business-oriented lawyer to join our global legal team. This role will be responsible for leading commercial legal support for Entrust’s digital security segment in the Americas as well as supporting strategic commercial accounts. It will be a hybrid role based out of Entrust’s Shakopee, MN, headquarters, working closely with sales, partnerships, and other legal & compliance team members and cross-functional stakeholders. The successful candidate will bring sound judgment, strong negotiation skills, and a collaborative and pragmatic practice style to help close complex transactions that support Entrust’s growth and help secure a world in motion.
Responsibilities
Lead commercial legal support for Entrust’s digital security business segment in North America, including hands-on drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial agreements in a timely and business-oriented manner, with appropriate escalation of legal and business risks.
Manage a team of 1-3 commercial lawyers and legal professionals, including work prioritization, practical guidance, development, and ensuring consistent, high-quality legal support.
Support strategic partnerships and go-to-market models, including negotiations with system integrators, managed service providers, and other commercially significant partnerships.
Serve as a legal advisor to sales leaders and cross-functional stakeholders, building strong collaboration and helping quantify risks, evaluate options, and present clear recommendations.
Work collaboratively across legal, sales, product, finance, procurement, compliance, information security, and other teams to coordinate resources and resolve issues in complex negotiations.
Develop a deep understanding of Entrust’s solutions, business practices, partner ecosystem, and strategic priorities to provide advice that is legally sound and commercially practical.
Build and improve upon scalable contracting processes and tools, in collaboration with Legal Operations, including playbooks, templates, and negotiation guidance.
Efficiently manage a high volume and variety of transactions and projects while independently prioritizing competing demands to meet business needs.
Adopt an engaging, proactive, and solutions-oriented style of legal practice to best serve internal clients, partners, and customers.
Work effectively in a global, multi-jurisdictional team environment and take on other responsibilities within the legal department as business needs evolve, including potential support of acquisitions and integrations and other strategic…