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The mission statement of Global Services Legal is to drive sustainable business growth for Accenture by providing deep legal expertise at the intersection of business strategy, industry and technology in a highly dynamic environment. The Global Services Legal team functions as the integrator between various other parts of the Legal team, coordinating between the multidisciplinary areas of deep expertise across the wider Legal team, to deliver one holistic Legal perspective to the business.

The Global Services Legal team is seeking to appoint a senior manager to act as Products Counsel.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of global legal professionals focused on go to market enablement of software products, including through management of team structure, workflow, relationship building, project execution, and creation of reports and risk assessments.

• Support senior business leadership in strategic initiatives, including designing new software products and bringing those products to market.

• Review global software products and provide practical legal risk analyses, mitigation strategies, and enable those products to go to market in a legally compliant and strategic manner.

• Work with Business teams and legal SMEs to evaluate the technology and use cases related to new products, including reviewing inbound technology, data supply, regulatory challenges and internal client facing templates in different geographies.

• Develop clear communication messages, guidance, templates and trainings regarding the technology/data components of products for go to market teams, development teams and the rest of the Legal organization on how to bring software products to market in a legally compliant and strategic manner.

• Help in design and implementation of tools and processes to enhance request management, legal risk assessments and coordination with business and other legal colleagues.

• Preserve path to productization by providing guidance to transaction teams on operational and contractual measures to take before deal closure.

• Working knowledge of: (a) data and security privacy issues; (b) IP law; (c) OSS licensing; and (d) general product development considerations. Understanding connection between in-bound agreements and client-facing agreements.

• Appetite for tech enablement of legal, including exploring the capacity and implementation of legal AI agents

• Proficiency using Microsoft Office applications (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint)

• Experience leading teams, mentoring legal team members, and supporting career development of team members.