Role & Responsibilities

DASSAULT SYSTEMES, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides businesses and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Serving over 250,000 clients in 11 industries, from high-tech to life sciences, fashion to transportation, we help businesses and people around the world to create sustainable innovations for today and tomorrow

Our team has an immediate opening for a Contract Legal Counsel professional. This person will work in our Waltham, MA office campus, reporting onsite 3 days a week in a flexible hybrid model.  As a member of our Americas legal team, you will support our sales and services organizations responsible for the company’s Americas operations. 

·         Legal Counsel will actively manage, draft and negotiate a range of complex commercial agreements, including software license and services agreements with customers and partners.

·         You will coordinate and manage contractual relationships with external customers, partners, and suppliers through completion, and act as an advisor on legal issues arising in the course of Company’s business, including issues related to contract interpretation, intellectual property, corporate policy and regulatory compliance.

·         You will interact with management and customer personnel on enterprise-level matters requiring coordination across organizational lines, as well as provide guidance to internal teams and stakeholders in formulating partnering strategies and plans, and in defining the legal risks associated with such plans.

·         Primary responsibilities are drafting, reviewing and negotiating software license agreements, services agreements, vendor contracts, IP licenses and nondisclosure agreements, and ensuring that such contracts are executed in compliance with company policy and applicable laws and regulations.

·         Partner closely with sales and services, and finance teams to understand and implement applicable processes and business practices.

·         Identify and report potential risk associated with customer facing contracts and products

·         Negotiate contracts, propose creative alternatives and protect the Company’s position to mitigate risk

·         Collaborate extensively and positively with sales, services and other internal teams

·         Collaborate with members of the legal team to ensure conformity of contract terms globally

·         Draft letters, memos, departmental and/or company communications and other legal documents