Legal Counsel

Aireon deployed the world's first global space-based air traffic surveillance system, providing real-time aircraft monitoring capabilities around the world, including over the poles, over the oceans and in remote areas.

Aireon data enables safer, more efficient and more environmentally friendly aviation travel, resulting in significant CO2 emission reductions. More than 20 Air Navigation Service Providers representing more than 40 countries - including NAV CANADA, NATS (UK), Air Traffic and Navigation Services (South Africa), Airports Authority of India (AAI), and ASECNA (Africa) -- rely on Aireon data to navigate aircraft in their airspaces.

We are committed to offering an employment experience and benefits package that enables you and your family to grow with us and to share in our success.

In this pivotal role you will be joining a team of lawyers and contracts professionals directly engaged in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts with customers and vendors. Reporting to the Director of Legal Affairs, your responsibilities will include drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, managing contractual relationships including operational tasks and ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, assisting with corporate and other functions, and other legal tasks as assigned.

What You'll Do

Provide comprehensive legal advice and counsel on a wide range of contractual matters
• Draft, review, negotiate, and close contracts with vendors and customers
• Manage customer and vendor relationships including supporting Aireon's Deal Management Team
• Research and deliver legal advice on topics as assigned
• Support transactions and projects as assigned
• Perform other legal functions as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Attorney licensed and in good standing with the bar association of a state or the District of Columbia and, if not already admitted, eligible for admission to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia
• 3-5 years' experience drafting and negotiating agreements
• Experience in working in a technology-driven small business or start-up environment
• Excellent oral, written and presentation communication skills, including the ability to highlight key points in a succinct manner to internal clients and executive management based on sound quantitative and qualitative analysis
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including a strong ability to build consensus and efficiently and effectively guide individuals at all levels of the organization through established or new processes
• Demonstrated ability to think conceptually and strategically, exercise superior reasoning skills and sound business judgment to influence decision making, and interface effectively with executive management
• Commitment to the highest professional ethical standards
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in working in a telecommunications or software company
• Experience in government contracting
• Knowledge of and proficiency with contract management systems generally; Workday and LinkSquares experience is a plus

About You

You are customer-centric. Be a partner with the customer, understand their needs, and incorporate them into every aspect of our service and interactions. You follow established policies and procedures and expect others to do the same as you lead by example.

You are safety-minded. Make safety the priority in all work, no matter how large or small the task is. You are comfortable managing specialized work efficiency and with confidence and competence. You are careful with the rules and accuracy.

You strive for results. Action and goal-oriented who is thorough and precise. Your professionalism and influential communication style helps you deliver results.

You are collaborative. You're a team player who puts the interest of the team above your own. You bring accountability to work and deliver high quality services.

1-3-6-12 Month Plan

In the first month we'll expect you to...

• Get onboarded and train with your manager
• Ask questions and get acclimated into the role
• Understand the different clients and stakeholders of the Legal Department
• Develop an understanding of the company's products and services and the contractual forms the company uses to transact business
• Become familiar with the tools and platforms the Legal Department uses

At 3 months we'll expect you to...

• Understand the company's corporate structure, ownership, leadership, and general management systems
• Perform textual review and issue-spotting on smaller contracts, and brief your manager on relevant points
• With appropriate supervision, plan for and engage in negotiations of contractual points with counterparties including vendors and smaller customers
• Demonstrate a working understanding of the parameters within which Aireon enters into contracts

At 6 months we'll expect you to...

• Have formed positive relationships with Aireon's Sales team and other internal clients, including the communication channels necessary to gather business input and direction
• With managerial supervision and approval, engage in negotiations with vendors and commercial customers and achieve successful outcomes
• Demonstrate your readiness and ability to undertake assigned legal projects, with decreasing amounts of managerial supervision being required depending on subject matter
• Understand your limitations and opportunities for improvement, and suggest plans for growth and improvement

At 12 months we'll expect you to...

• Operate independently with limited supervision as a contributing member of the Legal Department

About the Team

• Aireon's Legal Department is a small, efficient team that works together collaboratively
• The team stays connected by regular in-person interactions and meetings, attendance at periodic company events and meetings, and virtual meetings via Microsoft Teams
• All team members are located within the DMV and within commuting distance of McLean, Virginia

Perks and Benefits

• Premium medical, dental and vision plan

• Life Insurance and AD&D

• Short Term and Long Term Disability

• Health Savings Account (HSA)

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

• Retirement 401K plan with Employer Matching

• Education Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement

• Paid Time Off, Sick Leave, Floating Holidays

• Paid Parental Leave

• Company Sponsored Events

• Employee Referral Program

Aireon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or status as a protected veteran. EOE of Minorities/Females/Vets/Disability and other protected categories.