Corporate Paralegal

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Location: Mountain View, CA

Department: Legal

At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the company behind the popular open source projects — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats — we help people around the world do great things with their data. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. The Elastic family unites employees across 32 countries into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries. We are looking to hire the eighth member of our legal department in this fast growing, truly globally distributed company. Your role will be based in our Mountain View, CA headquarters (although there may be flexibility on location for the right candidate), where you will support the growing legal department with administrative and corporate paralegal and administrative skills. As a Corporate Paralegal, you will be essential in working cross-functionally across the company to help make sure that Legal and the business are executing together effectively and efficiently. You have excellent judgment, are able to balance competing demands on your time, independently function in a fast-paced environment, and can handle ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities with flexibility, patience and humor. We’re looking for someone with the ability to learn quickly and enthusiastically with interpersonal skills who are effective at collaborating across multiple teams and building strong relationships with stakeholders. Responsibilities <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Assist with corporate housekeeping and the decision-making process within the corporate structure;</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Assist in maintaining the global corporate and regulatory structure and affairs;</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Assist with corporate filings and documents;</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Contract management (formatting, facilitating signatures, abstracting, and organizing contracts);</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Execute administrative and operational processes for the legal team;</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Work cross-functionally across the company (including finance, sales, HR, product and engineering) as a liaison for the legal team.</li> </ul> Desired Attributes: <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Strong organizational skills, with the ability to influence upwards and prioritize effectively in a dynamic changing environment.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">A can-do positive attitude, proactively thinking through challenges and coming up with pragmatic workable solutions.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Detail-oriented, taking real pride to ensure nothing is missed.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Excellent work ethic.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Ability to learn challenging concepts and improve skills everyday.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Prior experience working in high-growth or startup technology companies is strongly preferred.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Ability to collaborate and function well in a team environment. </li> </ul> Requirements: <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Bachelor's degree.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">At least 3 years corporate law experience and experience in working with a legal team, with both law firm and in-house experience preferred.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Strong computer skills.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Paralegal certificate preferred.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Notary certificate preferred.</li> </ul> Perks <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Ground floor opportunity with an international organization on the cutting edge of Big Data technology.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Immense job satisfaction that comes with being involved with a company and technology having a real impact, across the globe, with unlimited use cases and massive market opportunity. </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Co-workers who are sharp and motivated, combined with a company culture that is open, welcoming and unique.</li> </ul> Additional Information: <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Competitive pay and benefits</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">401K matching</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Stock options</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Catered lunches, snacks, and beverages in most offices</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">An environment in which you can balance great work with a great life</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Passionate people building great products</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Employees with a wide variety of interests</li> </ul> Distributed-first company with employees in over 32 countries, spread across 18 time zones, and speaking over 30 languages! #LI-LP1 Elastic is an Equal Employment employer committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all applicants and employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. Elastic also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees consistent with applicable law.

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