General Purpose of the Position:

This position is responsible for providing legal representation in a wide variety of transactional matters, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements such as: vendor and procurement contracts, colocation agreements, and telecommunications agreements.  

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position may require supervision of legal staff.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Draft, review, and negotiate various commercial contracts relating to the Switch ecosystem such as vendor and procurement contracts, colocation agreements, and telecommunications agreements
• Provide practical, business-oriented advice directly to business clients from various levels and departments
• Manage projects and contract negotiations from beginning to end by reviewing draft contracts, preparing redlines, collaborating with teams across Switch, leading contract negotiation calls, and efficiently bringing deals to a favorable close
• Maintain and update existing templates and contracting processes
• Coordinate between departments to facilitate completion and execution of various projects
• Support implementation of existing agreements, policies, and practices
• Prepare reports and transaction memos and perform legal research
• Review and update policies and procedures
• Support corporate transactions and other special projects as needed
• Provide general corporate legal representation as needed
• Perform other assignments or duties as needed to support the Switch Legal team

Required Job Skills:

• Strong knowledge and understanding of legal documents
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication abilities
• Independent judgment for issue identification and creative resolutions
• Excellent customer service in working with various departments and customers
• Ability to manage a high-volume workload in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent organizational and time management skills to meet competing deadlines
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to successfully tackle new projects
• Willingness to assist the legal team in a wide variety of matters

Computer Equipment and Software:

• Intermediate working knowledge of various software applications including Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), DocuSign and Adobe
• Advanced understanding of contract and file management solutions

Education and Experience:

Education:                   

• J.D. required
• Bar admission and in good standing in at least one state.   

Experience:                 

• Licensed to practice law in a U.S. state
• 3-6 years of significant relevant transactional experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal department
• Procurement, data center, telecommunications, and/or corporate transactional experience a positive, but not required

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Location:

This position will be based out of Las Vegas, Nevada, or other location as mutually agreed upon.