Job Description

FICO (NYSE: FICO)is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

Join a world-class analytics company where your legal expertise will help shape business outcomes. As part of FICO's dynamic legal team, you'll partner with internal stakeholders and customers to deliver practical, business-focused legal guidance that enables innovation, manages risk, and supports smarter decisions for organizations worldwide.

What You’ll Contribute

• Draft, review, negotiate and translate a variety of agreements (sales, service, subcontract, software, procurement, non-disclosure) for assigned internal and external clients.
• Review defined contract terms, limitation of liability, intellectual property indemnity, license grants, and warranty, revising accordingly consistent with FICO policies and procedures.
• Support sales/business teams on opportunities including support of the RFP process and contract terms requiring approval.
• Provide contract review coordination across businesses (product, services, finance) in support of clients.
• Support department for contract template revisions, contract interpretation and translation, as requested.
• Protect FICO from unnecessary contract liabilities, damages and penalties.
• Identify red flag risk areas while working with the business team to seek appropriate approvals.
• Pro-actively create and maintain awareness of business employees for (compliance with) relevant laws and regulations.

What We’re Seeking

• Law degree (JD, LLB or equivalent) from accredited Brazilian law school with excellent academic credentials. Licensed to practice law (OAB) and in good standing.
• At least 5 years of experience as a transactional lawyer in-house and/or at a law firm with experience in a variety of agreements (sales, services, subcontract, software, procurement, marketing, NDAs) related to cloud computing, SaaS, software licensing, complex professional services involving software, analytics, and intellectual property.
• Solid understanding of contract and obligations law, intellectual property, privacy, revenue-related issues, contract remedies, liabilities and risk allocation issues, labor law.
• Extensive experience advising on data protection issues and privacy laws in Brazil, LAC countries, GDPR, intellectual property, and IT services.
• Understanding of cloud software security issues.
• Experience in government procurement deals and negotiating agreements with public sector entities.
• Professional legal experience related to legal regulations within various countries in the LAC region.
• Thrives in fast-paced environment with rapidly changing priorities, demonstrating the ability to effectively manage deadlines.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English language; advanced Spanish language skills strongly preferred.

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

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Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics. You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

• Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.

• Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

• Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career. Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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