The Global Services Legal team is seeking to appoint a senior manager to act as Products Counsel.
Key Responsibilities:- Lead a team of global legal professionals focused on go to market enablement of software products, including through management of team structure, workflow, relationship building, project execution, and creation of reports and risk assessments.
- Support senior business leadership in strategic initiatives, including designing new software products and bringing those products to market.
- Review global software products and provide practical legal risk analyses, mitigation strategies, and enable those products to go to market in a legally compliant and strategic manner.
- Work with Business teams and legal SMEs to evaluate the technology and use cases related to new products, including reviewing inbound technology, data supply, regulatory challenges and internal client facing templates in different geographies.
- Develop clear communication messages, guidance, templates and trainings regarding the technology/data components of products for go to market teams, development teams and the rest of the Legal organization on how to bring software products to market in a legally compliant and strategic manner.
- Help in design and implementation of tools and processes to enhance request management, legal risk assessments and coordination with business and other legal colleagues.
- Preserve path to productization by providing guidance to transaction teams on operational and contractual measures to take before deal closure.
- Working knowledge of: (a) data and security privacy issues; (b) IP law; (c) OSS licensing; and (d) general product development considerations. Understanding connection between in-bound agreements and client-facing agreements.
- Appetite for tech enablement of legal, including exploring the capacity and implementation of legal AI agents
- Proficiency using Microsoft Office applications (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint)
- Experience leading teams, mentoring legal team members, and supporting career development of team members.
Basic Qualifications: - Minimum of 12 years of experience at law firm and/or as in-house counsel at a technology company, in managing software products and/or services offerings, complex commercial arrangements (client, alliances, and/or vendor side).
- Hold a Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school
Preferred Qualifications: - Passion for supporting innovative technology and taking software products, agentic frameworks and services to market are pre-requisites.
- Fluency in English with strong oral and written communications skills.
- Experience of working with international teams in a global business. Open to work with and understand cross-cultures throughout the Accenture global organization
- Team management experience, including training of junior team members, with remote employees across multiple time zones.
- Individual achiever that can operate with minimal oversight and direction
- Track record of developing trusted relationships with business leaders
- Ability to adapt quickly to changes in business strategies.
- Technology transactional experience either in drafting and negotiating technology focused client-facing and/or vendor-facing agreements (i.e. data licensing, software as a service agreements, cloud, software license agreements, or software development agreements).
- Working knowledge of: (a) data and security privacy issues; (b) IP law; (c) OSS licensing; and (d) general product development considerations. Understanding connection between in-bound agreements and client-facing agreements.
- Appetite for tech enablement of legal, including exploring the capacity and implementation of legal AI agents
- Proficiency using Microsoft Office applications (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint)
- Experience leading teams, mentoring legal team members, and supporting career development of team members.
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 05/27/2026.
Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:
U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture
Role Location Annual Salary RangeCalifornia $132,500 to $338,300
Cleveland $122,700 to $270,600
Colorado $132,500 to $292,200
District of Columbia $141,100 to $311,200
Illinois $122,700 to $292,200
Maryland $132,500 to $292,200
Massachusetts $132,500 to $311,200
Minnesota $132,500 to $292,200
New York $122,700 to $338,300
New Jersey $141,100 to $338,300
Washington $141,100 to $311,200
