Google Hiring for Legal Assistant, Products and Agreements at San Francisco, CA Full Time
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location for this position from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 months of policy, legal, operations, or communications work experience.
Preferred qualifications:
- 1 year of experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal department.
- Ability to interact professionally with all levels of internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to contribute in a fast-paced, ambiguous work environment.
- Ability to juggle many projects simultaneously with a keen eye to detail and quality.
- Interest in the legal field.
- Exceptional written communication skills, including excellent spelling and grammar.
About the job
Google’s legal department is at the center of an information law revolution, and you’re at its core. As a Legal Assistant, you are a driving force behind the success of your Legal team, ready to roll up your sleeves to create and improve processes, maintain records, conduct legal research and coordinate communications across the team. As you closely support your team, you may find yourself working with multiple groups within the Legal Department, internal clients across Google, and external parties. You’re an independent thinker who isn’t afraid to ask questions, and you’re organized in a way that never overlooks the details.
As a Legal Assistant, you will support an open and accessible Internet by empowering smart decision-making through thoughtful, collaborative, and novel counsel. You’ll be working on a team of attorneys, contract managers, and legal assistants that support product areas covered by our Legal organization, including Ads, Cloud/Technical Infrastructure, Marketing, Commerce, Search, Geo, Assistant, and Payments.
Responsibilities include processing, reviewing, drafting, and discuss agreements, responding to internal requests and inquiries for legal guidance on a variety of matters, creating and maintaining trackers for legal documents and resources, and providing support for ad hoc legal projects.
20th century laws don’t always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you’re a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
Responsibilities
- Process, review, draft, and discuss agreements.
- Review and respond to internal legal requests with high attention to detail.
- Create and maintain trackers for legal documents and other resources.
- Navigate internal tools to support legal requests.
- Provide support for miscellaneous ad hoc legal projects.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.