Contract: Permanent – Full-time

Salary Bracket: Dependent on experience

Experience: NQ – 2PQE

*This role will be fully remote based in Northern Ireland, travel to our Dublin office is optional.

About Us

Cyncly is a global technology powerhouse with 2,400+ employees and 70,000+ customers across 100+ countries. Cyncly transforms the way customizable products and spaces are imagined, designed, sold, managed and made. Our end-to-end software solutions connect professional designers, retailers and manufacturers to the world's largest repository of product content. Today, our business spans across the Kitchen & Bath, Furniture, Window, Glass & Door, and Flooring industries with operations in North & South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Africa.

Cyncly brings over 30 years of experience to deliver more value for our customers through an expanded portfolio of end-to-end solutions. Our global presence allows us to provide world-class support and sales with a local touch, providing the best possible customer experience.

Cyncly is now embarking on an exciting journey as we continue to expand through strong organic growth and complementary acquisitions, backed by leading growth private equity firms specialized in technology.

About the Role

We are redeveloping the structure, purpose, and operating model of the legal department with a focus on ensuring the team spends its time on critical value-add and strategic work, not noncritical and repetitive tasks that can be automated or outsourced. We are leveraging legal technology, expert legal transformation consultants, and streamlined workflows to achieve this.

As Legal Counsel you will contribute to all aspects of the company’s legal, compliance and business enablement operations. You will support across all jurisdictions on key enterprise customer contracting matters (including the go to market of new cloud and data based products), M&A activity and legal integrations, day to day data privacy, compliance, employment law, IP, open-source, data use, corporate, legal entity management, and governance matters, and help the Senior Legal Counsels and General Counsel shape the strategy, culture, and vision of the new look digitized legal department.

In this dynamic and fast-paced environment you will have significant autonomy as part of a growing legal team (currently 13 individuals) to drive initiatives with exposure to key decision makers across the senior leadership team. You will report directly to the Senior Legal Counsel and work collaboratively with business unit and function leaders across sales, R&D, customer success, M&A/Corporate Development, Marketing, and FP&A/Finance.

This role would be perfect for a business savvy commercial in-house lawyer with experience negotiating software/technology contracts looking to broaden their knowledge base and fast track their career progression and path towards a future General Counsel role.

What the ideal candidate looks like

• NQ – 2 years PQE (exceptional NQ candidates qualifying in September 2024 will be considered) - Essential
• Experience negotiating software (ideally SaaS) contracts
• Willingness to learn a large and growing technology company with an international presence.
• Commercial and solution oriented legal approach and attitude
• Experience handling data privacy and IP matters, you will have exposure to other legal matters relevant to in-house work such as employment law, litigation and corporate governance
• An excellent sense of legal judgment and technical legal skill
• Good sense of commercial awareness to manage risk and make fast decisions to help facilitate the growing business
• Advise on legal risks, business strategies and other issues related to the company’s operations
• Capable of communicating key legal points in plain language and succinctly
• Strong project management skills and process-oriented approach
• Experience managing external counsel from a quality, timing, and budget perspective or alternatively providing legal advice and support to a company with respect to commercial arrangements across the organisation
• A desire to learn new areas of law and how a global private equity backed software business operates
• Desire and willingness to travel to our international offices and learn new areas of the business
• Business fluency in English - Essential
• Personable, confident, trustworthy, and friendly demeanour (ability to build relationships with key internal and external stakeholders)

Working for us

At Cyncly, we’re a global family that collaborates with humility and respect for one another. With more than 2,400 employees around the world, we not only recognize our diverse perspectives, we champion our different outlooks and firmly believe it to be what makes us better together.

You can expect to work in a supportive and nurturing environment, with experts in their fields who strive for quality and excellence without compromising others. We also believe in a flexible and autonomous working environment, focused on the continual growth of our employees.

Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and brilliance, so we encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply to our roles.

That’s who we are: A team that recognizes our strength is in working together to not only get things done, but also lead the industry with a bold approach that’s dedicated to making our customers better.

Come join us.