Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in drafting, negotiating, and advising on commercial contracts from a legal perspective and managing contracts and negotiations.
• Experience working with contract law in England.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working in a fast-paced professional environment.
• Knowledge of data protection law and advertising regulations.
• Ability to differentiate between legal and commercial issues and to understand when to escalate.
• Ability to prioritize and manage numerous responsibilities at the same time.
• Effective communication skills with a commitment to professionalism and collegiality.

About the job

With a company growing at such fast speeds, every day another agreement is made to keep Google running. As a member of the Legal Contracts team, you review and revise contracts -- often juggling several at a time. You develop practical and innovative ways to meet Google's needs and keep the company thriving, with the ability to affect Google's long-term goals.

As a Legal Specialist, you will a drive the success of your Legal team. You will create and improve processes, maintain records, conduct legal research, and coordinate communications across the team. You will work with multiple groups within the Legal Department, internal clients across Google, and external parties.

In this role, you will draft a variety of simple to medium complexity commercial agreements, primarily focusing on inbound service agreements and marketing agreements to support Google’s needs. You will also assist with the creation and maintenance of internal legal team knowledge resources and operational processes across legal teams in EMEA, working on commercial, litigation, and regulatory work.

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate a range of medium complexity inbound service agreements and marketing agreements and maintain templates that comply with company policies and local law.
• Develop knowledge in a range of Google functional areas and processes and build relationships with business customers.
• Advise business clients and global/regional legal teams on various aspects of English law, legal issues and risks, agreement structures, and company policies.