Corporate Counsel

About This Role

Being a Corporate Counsel at Yardi means providing legal guidance across a wide range of business activities, helping the company navigate evolving laws and regulations, manage risk, resolve disputes, and craft smart contracts. This role suits a dynamic legal mind with a passion for problem-solving who can turn legal insight into strategic advantage. You will work closely with leadership, regulators, and external partners in a fast-paced environment and should have a strong grasp of compliance, investigations, and the FCRA.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical legal advice and strategic support on a wide range of business, regulatory, and compliance matters
• Collaborate with internal teams at all levels to assess risk, resolve issues, and support business goals
• Draft, negotiate, and finalize sales agreements, contracts, and other documents to protect the company and contribute to its success
• Review current and monitor changing laws and regulations to ensure ongoing compliance

Requirements

• Law degree from an ABA-accredited law school
• Active Bar membership in the United States with no record of discipline
• Five (5) to eight (8) years of relevant legal experience (firm or in-house)
• Litigation management experience in both state and federal court
• Working knowledge of or the ability to learn rules and regulations such as the FCRA, privacy rules and regulations, payment processing rules and regulations, and more
• Basic understanding of or the ability to learn about software development, complex relational databases, cloud computing, and software-as-a-service (SaaS)
• Highest level of professional ethics and personal integrity and sound judgment
• Superlative oral and written communication skills
• Strong and demonstrated ability to work individually and as a team, including under pressure, with minimal direct supervision and while managing many competing priorities
• Interest in learning and analyzing complex statutes (including the FCRA), case law, and other primary and secondary sources and ability to provide clear and sound conclusions and recommendations
• Proficiency with Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word, and Outlook, and ability to learn and use proprietary customer/matter management software
• Friendly, collegial, and collaborative disposition
• Ability to travel up to 20%

Nice to have:

• Risk assessment and management experience
• Familiarity working with software developers
• Software licensing agreement drafting and negotiation experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits, including 100% paid employee medical premiums