Legal Counsel, Licensing and Strategic Sourcing

Trimble Inc. • Lake Oswego, OR

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Legal Counsel, Licensing and Strategic Sourcing Ready to make a tangible impact on global industries as a strategic legal partner? Trimble is looking for a proactive and pragmatic Legal Counsel to help us navigate complex licensing, strategic sourcing, and payment processing needs while driving our mission to connect the physical and digital worlds. About Trimble Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. Trimble empowers customers to drive productivity and progress with connected hardware and software solutions. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it is helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress. Trimble’s Legal team helps drive this as a strategic partner to the business, delivering proactive, pragmatic, and creative solutions through a risk-managed approach, and prioritizing execution and integrity to enable Trimble’s success. What Makes This Role Great: In this role, reporting to Trimble’s VP Legal, you will be more than just an attorney; you will be a key legal partner directly influencing Trimble’s business and operational excellence and driving business results. You will have the unique opportunity to partner with business teams and provide guidance on a critical segment of the business—licensing and global sourcing—to allow our business to thrive in a fast-paced, global environment.

Requirements

• You have 7+ years of legal experience with a deep focus on drafting and negotiating complex SaaS, payment processing, and commercial contracts.
• You hold a J.D. from an accredited law school and are in good standing with the bar in your state of employment.
• You possess exceptional negotiation and communication skills, with a proven talent for translating legal complexity into clear business solutions.
• Experience using AI in a business context to efficiently generate high-quality work product.

Nice To Haves

• Experience within a large law firm or the in-house legal department of a global public company.
• Prior experience navigating legal challenges specifically within the tech or industrial hardware sectors.

Responsibilities

• Drive global innovation by drafting and negotiating sophisticated SaaS, cloud, and other commercial licensing and strategic sourcing agreements that power our business and digital transformation.
• Act as the primary internal legal advisor for Trimble’s payment processing relationships, providing high-level oversight and guidance to the Payments team.
• Provide strategic advice and direction to senior leadership, evaluating legal risks and identifying creative solutions to support business goals.
• Collaborate across business units to manage disputes and mentor contract professionals on complex legal negotiations.

Benefits

• Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans.
• Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees