Corporate Counsel
About The Position
Guess is seeking a business-minded Corporate Counsel to join its legal team. The position focuses on licensing, sophisticated commercial contracting, technology, and AI and emerging technologies. The Corporate Counsel will also play a key role in implementing the Company’s new Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform. This is a full-time, on-site position based in Los Angeles and reports to the General Counsel. The GUESS?, LLC Legal department oversees global legal matters, including major corporate transactions, SEC reporting, executive management, governance, day-to-day contracts and agreements, litigation, and licensing to protect and implement trademarks. The team partners with departments across the company and works closely with executive management to predict and mitigate issues.
Requirements
- J.D. and active California Bar membership.
- 7–9 years of relevant experience in a major law firm and/or in-house legal department.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills and sound business judgment.
- Comfort negotiating directly with stakeholders and working independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Significant experience with consumer products licensing and sophisticated commercial contracting.
- Substantive experience structuring and negotiating complex technology, SaaS, software, cloud, and AI agreements.
- Experience implementing or administering a CLM platform.
- Practical problem-solving and consensus-building skills, ownership, sound judgment in ambiguous situations, and comfort wearing multiple hats.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with consumer products, retail, fashion, or e-commerce.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, negotiate, and manage the full lifecycle of domestic and international commercial agreements, including technology, software, SaaS, AI and data-related agreements, e-commerce and digital platform agreements, and confidentiality agreements.
- Draft domestic and international retail store licensing and distribution agreements and third-party intellectual property collaboration agreements.
- Advise on and support strategic technology partnerships and technology-enabled tools.
- Work with the Global Privacy and Technology Legal Manager to advise on technology governance, including responsible use, risk assessments, related policies, and training.
- Lead global CLM implementation and develop contract templates, playbooks, clause libraries, and approval workflows.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
