Staff Attorney

Position Title: Staff Attorney

Practice: Legal

Position Location: Remote

Job Summary

This position is responsible for reviewing, drafting and negotiating agreements with customers and vendors. Additionally, the position has ownership of identify both legal and business risks to the organization. It will support formal procurement response efforts including RFPs, RFQs, RFIs, etc, as well as information security due diligence requests and will do so within the time parameters required.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Review, draft and negotiate master agreements and transactional contracts involving equipment sales and IT professional services, software licenses, and subscription-based offerings. Contracts may include reseller agreements, master services agreements, statements of work, proposals, nondisclosure agreements, referral agreements, government contracts, and other contracts supporting the legal team as needed.
• Ensure contractual terms and conditions are consistent with established company policy and risk profile. Ensure compliance obligations are managed across the contract chain, documented, and communicated to appropriate stakeholders.
• Provide legal/risk summaries, draft corporate policies and governance documents, and participate in other projects as directed.
• Prepare responses to information security due diligence requests.
• Maintain organized records of contract versions, approvals, and correspondence.
• Assist the legal team with tasks supporting mergers and acquisitions activity.
• Perform legal review and risk assessments of competitive solicitations.
• The candidate must show flexibility and resilience, including ability to adapt to changing/uncertain business surroundings, and ability to manage workload in a remote environment while coordinating with multiple stakeholders.
• Handle general corporate legal duties as assigned and the ability to prioritize and work under tight deadlines.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of contracting and negotiation concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Ability to communicate clearly verbally and in writing with Pellera personnel as well as third parties and to effectively coordinate with the sales team.
• Must be well organized, self-motivated with excellent attention to detail.
• A positive and professional acumen is also of critical importance.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and negotiation skills.
• Effectively identify, manage, and complete projects.

Education and/or Experience

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree and admission to the Florida Bar to practice law are required.
• 3-5 years' experience as a transactional attorney.
• Experience in information technology or government contracting and competitive procurements is strongly preferred.

Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements:

This is a work-from-home position anywhere in the US supporting CT & ET times zones.

• Physical environmental factors of this position include those found in typical business office environment or home office environment.
• Requires use of general office equipment and personal computer equipment.
• Ability to travel. Various means of travel may be required, including auto and air travel. This position requires travel: Rarely
• May be required to work irregular schedules including but not limited to as applicable: Nights, weekends, holidays, on-call, and/or overtime.

Pellera provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.