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Microsoft · 13 hours ago

Principal Corporate Counsel

Redmond, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$132K/yr - $233K/yr

4+ years exp

Microsoft is looking for a skilled attorney to join the Cloud + AI legal team as a Principal Corporate Counsel. This role involves providing legal advice and counsel on a broad portfolio of legal work related to cloud services, including transactional support and compliance for product engineering.

Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Legal Advice and Counsel

Foster deep and high trust engagement as the key legal advisor with engineering clients to understand technical engineering concepts and strategy

Provide high-quality, pragmatic legal and business advice regarding a wide range of issues, including product development, government and commercial contracting, security, privacy/data protection, trade, compliance, and intellectual property, often in collaboration with legal department colleagues and policy specialists

Provide thought leadership and counseling on emerging issues, help create and execute on plans to achieve both short-term and long-term results, and communicate with key legal and business stakeholders

Draft and negotiate commercial and technology focused agreements; develop new templates and guidance to accelerate transactions

Analyze and help solve complex and innovative issues

Operational Excellence

Develop and implement processes, templates and best practices, track projects and share knowledge across the wider Microsoft legal community

Provide input and continuous feedback to improve process efficiencies within role; identifies opportunities and tools to increase operational efficiency and effectiveness

Manage project work expenses according to budget and proposes efficiencies

Models compliance and maintains confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, privacy, and the security of data

Communication & Culture

Collaborate effectively within CELA and stakeholders across engineering, business development, finance, and sales functions

Organize issues and ideas clearly in written and verbal communication and demonstrate effectiveness across diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders

Embody our culture and values

Qualification

Juris Doctor DegreeActive law licenseTechnology-related legal issuesNegotiating technology agreementsAdvising engineering teamsOperational excellenceCommunication skillsCollaboration skills

Required

Juris Doctor Degree or international equivalent degree AND 4+ years experience as a practicing attorney

OR equivalent experience

Active license to practice law in a jurisdiction and capable of meeting admission requirements in relevant jurisdiction

Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Preferred

3+ years' experience as an attorney advising on technology-related legal issues (including intellectual property, licensing, and compliance), ideally as in-house counsel

Experience counseling engineering teams developing products and services for enterprise and government customers

Experience negotiating complex technology agreements

Experience distilling complex legal and technical issues into clear, actionable guidance and recommendations