Senior Legal Counsel

February 12

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Apryse

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Apryse is a leading provider of document processing technology that offers SDKs and end-user applications for generating, converting, viewing, editing, and signing documents. It serves a diverse range of industries, including public sector, healthcare, legal, and financial services, enabling businesses to streamline their document workflows within secure, scalable solutions. With robust tools for integration into existing platforms and user-friendly applications, Apryse caters to innovative startups as well as Fortune 500 companies, emphasizing speed, reliability, and comprehensive support for developers.

PDF Development Toolkits • Mobile PDF Libraries • Electronic Document Processing Technology • Business-ready Enterprise Document Solutions • PDF SDK

201 - 500 employees

🤝 B2B

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

💰 Private Equity Round on 2021-05

📋 Description

• Apryse is looking for an experienced, self-motivated, approachable, and business-savvy technology lawyer with a solid understanding of intellectual property law to join our in-house legal team and support Apryse’s growing software business. • The candidate will play an important role in Apryse’s legal department and business, supporting our compliance team, IP protection and enforcement efforts, sales efforts, contracting, strategic initiatives, integration of acquired companies and other day-to-day legal matters across our global organization. • Draft and negotiate software license agreements, vendor agreements, reseller agreements and other commercial contracts. • Manage Apryse’s IP protection and enforcement efforts, including supporting compliance team with investigating and resolving suspected instances of misuse or infringement of our software. • Provide day-to-day legal advice and pragmatically resolve issues that arise across the business. • Advocate for the interests of the business in commercial disputes and negotiations, which may include drafting demand letters and managing litigation with external counsel. • Work collaboratively and efficiently with external legal counsel where required.

🎯 Requirements

• Law degree from an accredited law school, licensed to practice law in Canada or the United States and a member in good standing with applicable bar association. • 6 to 9+ years of relevant post-call legal experience, ideally a mix of at a major law firm and in-house (ideally at a B2B software company). • Experience working with software licensing and technology-related transactions. • Experience supporting IP compliance, protection and enforcement efforts. • Strong negotiation skills with the ability to understand the interplay of legal and business terms, and to advocate a strong position while maintaining a positive relationship with the other party. • Creative problem-solver who can take a leadership role in matters they are engaged in and resolve complex issues in creative, efficient, and practical ways. • Ability to grasp legal and business issues and provide tailored advice in plain language to non-legal stakeholders. • Proactive, service-oriented attitude, strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build collaborative business relationships at all levels of the organization. • Impeccable attention to detail, responsive, organized and able to self-motivate and work well independently and as part of a team in a dynamic environment. • Nice to haves: Experience working with and supporting sales teams. • Familiarity with open source software. • IP related litigation experience. • Proficiency in another language in addition to English. • Experience with US government contracting.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. • A comprehensive extended benefits package including health, dental and vision for you and your family, with company paid offerings. • A great team environment and resources, supporting you to do the best work of your life and providing unlimited career growth potential. • Highly autonomous and entrepreneurial environment. • Annual recurring WFH allowance for you to purchase items you need for your home office. • Ongoing support for learning development so you can master your craft. • Work with the hardware you're most comfortable with (Windows or Mac). • Diverse and inclusive workplace where we all learn from each other. • Excellent work-life balance with a flexible remote work environment.