Job Description:
Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company's mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.
Rakuten Advertising provides advertising technology and consumer insights to the world's leading brands and retailers. Working with agencies and brands around the world, Rakuten Advertising unites technology, client strategy and consumer insights to deliver advertising experiences that drive increased brand awareness and marketing performance. With access to Rakuten's diverse media properties and audiences, combined with an award-winning performance network and proprietary consumer research, Rakuten Advertising creates the right conditions to reach new customers and sustain long-lasting loyalty.
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Job Summary:
As a Contract Attorney on our team, you will serve as an established and productive individual contributor, managing defined components of legal projects or processes within your area of responsibility. You will apply practical knowledge of corporate and financial law to support the company's business operations in the online retail broker industry. You will be responsible for providing legal counsel on a variety of legal matters, analyzing risks, drafting legal documents, and ensuring compliance. You may collaborate with other departments, and occasionally manage smaller projects or initiatives, contributing to the efficiency and effectiveness of the legal function.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic commercial and legal advice to internal teams (e.g., sales, client services, product, operations) on a variety of legal and compliance issues.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including master services agreements, confidentiality agreements, order forms, statements of work, RFPs, client contracts, partnership agreements, and vendor/supplier agreements.
- Conduct face-to-face negotiations with clients and partners.
- Advise on and draft privacy-related documentation, such as privacy policies, and data sharing agreements, ensuring compliance with relevant data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
- Monitor and analyze existing and proposed legislation and regulations (e.g., in data privacy, AI, contract, and advertising law) to ensure business compliance and provide sound commercial advice.
- Develop and deliver training to business teams on contract and compliance matters.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of internal policies and processes.
- Identify and assess legal risks and opportunities and proactively manage legal issues relevant to the industry.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Strong working knowledge of contract/commercial law and data privacy.
- Significant experience negotiating commercial contracts with customers and partners.
- Experience advising cross-functional teams.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and drafting skills.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders.
- Ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly to non-legal colleagues and customers.
- Organized, detail-oriented, and a team player.
- Ability to take ownership of matters and have a solution-focused approach.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and manage quick turnaround times.
- Sound and practical business judgment and ability to balance legal considerations with business objectives.
- Proactive, dynamic, and results-driven self-starter with strong attention to detail.
Minimum Requirements:
- US-qualified lawyer with 6+ years of legal experience, including in-house experience.
- This is a remote opportunity within the US.
- The position is temporary for a forecasted duration of approximately 7 months.
At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the hourly rate for this role will be between $70-$80/hr. Individual compensation will vary based on job-related factors, including the skills, qualifications, and experience of the successful candidate as well as business need and geographic location.
Five Principles for Success
Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.
Always improve, Always Advance - Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen
Passionately Professional - Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best
Hypothesize - Practice - Validate - Shikumika - Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory
Maximize Customer Satisfaction - The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! - Always be conscious of time - take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team
Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.