Commercial Counsel

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• Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.
• Collaborating with a vibrant, inclusive, global team.
• Joining a company with a proven track record of success and an exciting future.
• Contributing to a brighter, more sustainable future.
  

It’s all possible with a role at Esko. Esko, a Veralto company, is a global provider of integrated software and hardware solutions that accelerate the go-to-market process of packaged goods. Our integrated platform and comprehensive tools empower retailers, pre-media and trade shops, manufacturers, and converters to manage best-in-class packaging design and print processes.

Innovation is built into the DNA of our business: every day, we challenge ourselves to be better by seeking out new ways to elevate our products, our processes, and our people.

We also know that innovation and ingenuity starts with prioritizing a diverse workforce and a deeply inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions. 

We’re seeking a Commercial Counsel to support Esko’s global commercial legal operations, with a focus on SaaS and software licensing transactions. You will negotiate commercial agreements, coordinate regulatory matters affecting our products, and help build the frameworks, tools and team that make our legal function faster and more scalable. This role is also an opportunity to help shape a new legal Center of Excellence (CoE) in Europe. You will contribute to its set-up and, over time, may take on a leadership role as it grows. You will work closely with sales, service, procurement, R&D and the broader Veralto legal team across Europe and the United States, with meaningful autonomy and direct access to senior business stakeholders.

This is a remote role based in Czechia or Poland, with occasional domestic and international travel of up to 20%.

In this role, you will be:

• Negotiating, drafting and approving commercial agreements, including SaaS agreements, software licensing, partnership and procurement contracts, NDAs and Data Protection Agreements.
• Supporting commercial legal work for other Veralto operating companies, including GlobalVision, TraceGains and X-Rite Pantone, as business needs require.
• Providing clear, practical legal guidance to business leaders and sales and service teams, translating complex legal matters into actionable advice.
• Partnering with sales and commercial teams to accelerate customer-facing deal execution across diverse geographies and legal frameworks.
• Supporting M&A activity, including due diligence, documentation and integration planning, in collaboration with the Lead Commercial Counsel and cross-functional partners.
• Coordinating regulatory work affecting products and operations, including data management, cybersecurity, privacy, AI and product liability.
• Working with R&D, product, IT security and compliance teams to anticipate regulatory developments and translate them into practical requirements and contract positions.
• Designing and delivering training on AI best practices and regulation, distributor management, competition law, compliance and privacy.
• Acting as a PMO for legal workstreams by creating and maintaining guidelines, templates, playbooks and RACI frameworks.
• Identifying opportunities to use legal technology and AI tools to improve efficiency and helping to roll them out responsibly.
• Championing proactive risk management by identifying emerging legal issues and developing scalable, pragmatic solutions.
• Helping to design and build the potential future legal CoE, including its scope, processes, tooling and ways of working with the wider legal team.
• Contributing to potentially recruiting, onboarding and developing future team members and, as the CoE grows, taking on management responsibility where appropriate.

Requirements

• Law degree with 6-8 years' experience in an international law firm, a multinational company, or both.
• Significant experience with software-related commercial matters, including SaaS agreements, software licensing and hosted services, from a sell-side perspective.
• Fluency in English with exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-legal audiences.
• A proven track record of managing complex, multi-party commercial negotiations independently and with sound judgement.
• Strong collaboration and listening skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively, work autonomously in a remote international team and remain flexible in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong capability in regulatory horizon scanning and related training.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required, up to 20%.

Preferred experience also includes:

• In-house counsel experience in a technology or software company and/or experience with international law firms.
• Experience negotiating with both large multinational companies and smaller businesses.
• Experience building templates, playbooks or legal operations processes, or working with legal AI tools.
• Experience in M&A due diligence and processes.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks for technology, AI and data, such as NIS2, the Data Act, the EU AI Act and product liability rules.
• Experience coaching or managing junior lawyers, or setting up a shared-service or CoE model.
• Admission to a bar in an EU member state.

Esko is proud to part of the Product Quality & Innovation segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way.

At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve.Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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