Senior Legal Counsel
Herndon, VA / Chicago, IL
G&A – Legal /
Full Time Permanent /
Hybrid
Everseen: A leader in vision AI solutions for the world’s leading retailers.
The Role
Are you an agile, business-minded Legal Counsel looking to make an immediate, tangible impact at a high-growth global company?
We are looking for a Senior Legal Counsel (US Qualified) to serve as a key strategic partner to our General Counsel and business leadership and join a tight knit, collaborative, globally facing team. In this role, you will not simply review contracts—you will help steer our commercial engine, scale our corporate and operational foundations, and protect the company’s interests as we expand worldwide.
The role will focus on day to day legal operations which fall into two distinct buckets:
- Deal oversight and support (customer commercial transactions); and
- Conventional legal aspects, such as Intellectual Property, data privacy, ESOP, corporate governance etc.
If you thrive in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment where your legal insight directly shapes business outcomes, we want to hear from you.
What you'll do
As the Senior Legal Counsel, you will support the General Counsel and the rest of the Legal & Compliance team in overseeing the legal & compliance aspects of the company’s business and advancing company objectives while mitigating risk.
You will help safeguard the company’s reputation by ensuring adherence to laws, rules & policies, and will provide effective & practical legal advice across the organization.
Your duties will include:
- Assisting US-based General Counsel in planning and development in support of evolving the legal function
- Working with the legal team in Ireland and supporting a follow-the-sun working methodology
- Drafting, negotiating and reviewing a wide range of commercial contracts with customers, partners and service providers and providing support to more junior members of the legal team
- Providing accurate and timely counsel to company employees on a variety of legal topics (including commercial contracts, privacy and data protection, policies and procedures, corporate governance, intellectual property, employment law, etc.)
- Applying effective risk management techniques and offer proactive advice on legal aspects of a commercial transaction
- Communicating, negotiating, and resolving issues with colleagues and external parties, establishing relations of trust
- Dealing with complex matters with multiple stakeholders
- Maintaining the highest standards of personal and professional integrity and responsibility
- Keeping current on updates and changes in applicable rules and legislation, and developing expertise in new areas of practice
- Working closely with the General Counsel and rest of the Legal & Compliance Department to ensure consistent and reliable support to the organization
Collaborating With
You will collaborate closely with the Legal and Compliance department along with key stakeholders and leaders in the organization, including Sales and Finance.
Profile and Skills
- You are a US qualified lawyer with at least 4 to 7 years post-qualification experience in related areas of the law, with a deep knowledge of commercial contracts (technology / SaaS)
- You have the highest standard of professional ethics and integrity
- Demonstrated drive, enthusiasm to learn and the ability to work well in a dynamic team environment
- You have a solid understanding of commercial law, and the commercial consequences of legal issues
- You demonstrate sound judgement and have the ability to analyze situations and information
- You possess outstanding organization and communication skills
- You enjoy working closely with your team and the camaraderie that can bring
- You enjoy working collaboratively towards and achieving team/corporate goals
- You like to innovate and to solve problems creatively and quickly, exhibiting a “think outside the box” approach.
About Everseen
Shrink and inefficiency cost global retailers more than a hundred billion dollars each year. But Everseen is changing that equation. We are a leader in vision AI, transforming business operations for global retailers by reducing shrink, improving operations, and delivering a better customer experience.
Supporting 11 of the top 20 global retailers, Everseen’s AI innovations help retailers save millions of dollars every month. Its flagship product, Evercheck, is deployed in 10,000 retail stores and 150,000 checkouts globally. Everseen operates at unmatched scale, processing over 15 million transactions, and more than six petabytes of video data, daily.
Trusted by major food, drug, mass, and specialty retailers around the world - including Kroger, Meijer, and Woolworths - we also partner with leading hardware, AI, and cloud computing providers such as Google, NVIDIA, NCR, and Dell.
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Cork, Ireland, Everseen has over 700 employees globally, with a European headquarters in Cork, Ireland, a U.S. headquarters in Miami, and hubs in Romania, Serbia, India, Australia, and Spain.
We are a dedicated team of inventors, research scientists, engineers, AI experts and retail industry veterans. Our culture is built on accountability, collaboration, and high standards. We take ownership of outcomes, prioritise our customers, operate as one team, move quickly with purpose, and continually raise the bar in everything we deliver.
Our Culture
Our culture is built on ownership and accountability, we own outcomes, not tasks. We stay relentlessly customer-first, letting their needs shape our priorities and decisions.
We work as one team: we challenge ideas, align quickly, and commit together. We move with pace, without compromising on simplicity or quality. And every day, we raise the bar, strengthening our talent, pushing innovation forward, and maximizing our impact.
Our Values
We OWN THE OUTCOME. No silos, no excuses.
We ARE CUSTOMER-FIRST. They guide our decisions.
We ARE ONE TEAM. Debate, decide, commit.
We MOVE WITH PACE. With simplicity and quality.
We RAISE THE BAR. On talent, innovation and impact.
Our Commitment
Everseen is committed to creating an environment where everyone can succeed. Our employees should feel a sense of belonging, have an opportunity to grow their careers, and feel free to be their most authentic selves. Everseen takes great pride in the diversity of its global workforce, and insists upon a safe, inclusive workplace where our differences are our collective strength. We treat each other with dignity, and respect, and require all employees, officers, and directors to seek to understand the importance and value to Everseen of diversity, and inclusion.
Everseen is committed to creating a safe environment for all employees and has a zero tolerance policy for bias and discrimination of any kind. Our work environment is one without offensive, hostile, or intimidating conduct, whether verbal, written or physical, in nature. Everseen will not tolerate prejudice or discrimination of any kind including without limitation, where based on aspects such as, race, colour, sex, gender, religion, age, family status, disability of any kind, sexual orientation.
