The opportunity

Do you have a background in or curiosity about legal issues related to SaaS agreements? We are hiring a motivated counsel to join our legal team’s commercial group. In this role, you will partner with and provide legal support to one or more of Unity’s business development teams, focusing on Unity’s games and strategic partners.

If you are tech-savvy, possess strong project management and leadership skills, and enjoy working with people from all over the world, this opportunity may be just what you’re looking for. You will thrive in a fast-paced and collaborative environment, bringing your passion for problem-solving and driving change to the forefront. You’ll be based in Unity’s offices in Montreal and will work closely with team members across the globe.

What you'll be doing

Partner with the Sales Team on behalf of the Legal Team.
Review, negotiate, draft, and execute a variety of agreements including master services agreements, purchase agreements, license agreements, confidentiality agreements, data protection addendums, and other general business contracts.
Build and help maintain contract templates for use by the sales organization.
Collaborate internally to ensure compliance with legal and security requirements and remain up to date on such requirements.
Craft scalable compliance processes for global teams for laws applicable to marketing activities.

What we're looking for

You are flexible, well organized, and able to work in fast-paced technology environment and on a global scale, and have the ability and desire to work independently and with little oversight.
You are a creative, effective problem solver and have experience crafting operational efficiencies for a scaling business.
You demonstrate outstanding judgment and are comfortable, effective and persuasive in dealing with customers, partners, teammates, and senior management.
You have excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills, foreign language, international business/legal and/or cross border transactional experience, enterprise sales, SaaS contracting experience a plus.
You are a member in good standing with the applicable jurisdiction, with proven experience with a law firm of good repute or in house in a role with related experience.

You might also have

You have the confidence and ability to collaborate with senior executives, clients and co-workers in a conscientious and positive manner, and see leading cross-functional projects and partnering with active business development, engineering, product, and marketing teams as a huge benefit of working in-house.
CIPP/US or CIPP/EU a plus or will acquire one of these certifications within one year of employment and/or a working understanding of worldwide marketing and privacy regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and CAN-SPAM and understand how to implement marketing programs.
You take being a legal advisor seriously and have a can-do demeanor when working with colleagues or clients, no matter their position at the company. You are a self-starter teammate with a roll-up-your-sleeves demeanor, strong attention to detail, solution-orientation, and “keep it human” approach to communicating. Technical background a plus!

Additional information

Relocation support is not available for this position.
Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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