Corporate Counsel EMEA 12-month FTC Job Description Corporate Counsel - EMEA – 12-month maternity cover Overview: Corporate Counsel - EMEA position for a licensed attorney (3/4+ years' experience) with high-level corporate, commercial contract and transactional experience.
Location: Cork or Dublin preferred. Other European locations welcome. Open to remote work.
Company Overview: Cognex is the world's leading provider of vision systems, software, sensors, and industrial barcode readers used in manufacturing automation. Cognex vision helps companies improve product quality, eliminate production errors, lower manufacturing costs, and exceed consumer expectations for high-quality products at an affordable price.
Position Overview: We are looking for a Corporate Counsel with responsibility for the EMEA region on a 12-month contract. Reporting to the Senior Corporate Counsel – EMEA, this position will work closely with the European sales team and have responsibility for customer agreements in the region. The Corporate Counsel - EMEA will provide business and legal counsel on a wide range of commercial, employment, and other issues, and must be comfortable giving strategic, creative, and business-savvy legal advice.
Required and Preferred Experience: Minimum of 3/4 years' experience with commercial contracts and transactional experience. Law degree from an accredited law school and admitted to practice law in Ireland, the U.K., or another European jurisdiction. Expertise negotiating and drafting commercial agreements for technology companies, including software licensing experience and familiarity with intellectual property issues. Excellent verbal and written communication skills; superior organizational abilities; ability to handle multiple projects effectively. Demonstrated ability to interface with engineering, sales, finance functions, and intellectual property counsel. Self-starter, someone who takes the initiative on important projects; ability to work independently and with a sense of urgency. Fluency in English required. A creative problem solver who understands that his/her role is not only to identify legal issues but to resolve them to achieve business objectives. Responsibilities and Duties: Reviewing, drafting and negotiating customer and procurement agreements, and a wide range of other commercial agreements. Preparation of first draft original agreements, and revisions to standard agreements to suit individual project requirements. Serve as an initial point of contact for clients, providing creative business and legal counsel on a wide range of issues common to rapidly-growing public companies. Provide compliance awareness and counsel with respect to European laws and regulations. Provide education and training to EMEA staff. #LI-PM1- About Us Cognex is the largest, most successful and most recognized global player in industrial machine vision. Using advanced optics, image sensors, and artificial intelligence software, Cognex vision and ID systems capture an image, then analyze it to make sense of what's being seen.
Companies use Cognex vision and ID in their manufacturing processes to improve product quality, guide assembly robots, and track items through each stage of production and distribution.
Cognex is focused entirely on solving the toughest problems in industrial machine vision and ID, and we have sold more solutions in these areas than any other company in the world.
More than a billion products are made each day using Cognex vision.
The only thing smarter than our vision and ID systems are the people that stand behind them. One of them could be you!
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