Sr. Software Licensing Attorney – Brazil

Genesys is the world’s leading provider of customer service and contact software — with more than 2,000 customers in 80 countries. Drawing on its more than 20 years of customer service innovation and experience, Genesys is uniquely positioned to help companies bring their people, insights and customer channels together to effectively drive today’s customer conversation. Genesys software directs more than 100 million interactions every day, maximizing the value of customer engagement and differentiating the experience by driving personalization and multi-channel customer service – and extending customer service across the enterprise to optimize processes and the performance of customer-facing employees.

Responsibilities

In this role, the primary responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

• Provide legal services to clients, focusing on software licensing transactions, professional services agreements, and other agreements in support of the sale and provisioning of software related products and services
• Lead the negotiation of sales agreements from a legal perspective
• Review and coordinate revisions to contracts with the finance and sales departments
• Understand impacts of financial principles on contracts, including USGAAP, revenue recognition, and tax and explain ramifications of contractual language or new business ventures to key stakeholders;
• Work with members of the legal and finance departments on issues of general corporate law and compliance.
• Advise on matters necessary to protect the business from undue liability exposure and litigation risk;
• Manage the protection of Intellectual Property and execute within agreements;
• Provide legal counsel on issues arising from actual or anticipated disputes;
• Anticipate and guard against legal risks facing the company;
• Advise management on proper legal course for various legal situations.

Qualifications/Skills Required and Preferred

• Graduate from an accredited law school;
• A minimum of five (05) years experience as a practicing attorney negotiating software licensing agreements;
• Substantial familiarity working with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as they relate to software
• Ability to assess the business needs of the sales force; independently analyze key terms in agreements to obtain the necessary objectives; meet business-driven deadlines and commitments while maintaining a high level of quality and professionalism; interface with customers and members of the legal, financial/revenue recognition, sales, and other stakeholder teams to bring deals to closure
• Ability to analyze business, financial, and legal risks and develop and communicate creative solutions and mitigation strategies for key negotiation points
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Fluent in Portuguese, Spanish & English;
• Knowledge of corporate and regulatory compliance a plus

Genesys is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace.

To apply, please submit your resume to Careers@genesyslab.com indicating job title and country.

Genesys is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace.