Senior Counsel, Japan

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebratingour wins.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, -based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and be your best self!

At Anaplan, you will be a part of a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform. You’ll be

inspired that the work you do every day helps us become a category-defining company. You’ll be connected to a talented and diverse team, who you’ll collaborate with to execute our strategy. You'll be developed to accomplish ambitious goals and then rewarded when those goals are

achieved.

Being a part of Anaplan’s EMEA and APAC Legal team, means being part of one of the fastest growing cloud vendors and making your mark on the industry. You have the opportunity to work with a team of professionals that have the potential for rapid career growth based on performance and success. Colleagues at Anaplan are inspired to bring new, innovative ideas to market, should be able to challenge the status quo and be able to sell the value add of Anaplan’s products and solutions to customers.

The Role

We have an excellent opportunity to join Anaplan as Senior Legal Counsel Japan reporting to Anaplan’s VP & Managing Counsel EMEA & APAC. The successful candidate will manage and provide legal support to Japanese and APAC regions. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated significant experience and background in commercial negotiations with an emphasis on complex technology transactions, particularly SaaS agreements.

Responsibilities

• Support Anaplan’s sales growth in Japan by being an individual contributor in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of agreements with a primary focus on cloud services and SaaS, partner agreements, professional services agreements, and other technology agreements,
• Provide commercial and general legal advice to the business, including advising internal stakeholders in connection with company processes and procedures,
• Manage the review and negotiation of contracts with vendors and suppliers,
• Supporting the legal team in improving efficiency in its processes and ensure alignment with best practices globally,
• Keeping abreast of the latest legal and regulatory developments relating to cloud-based software solutions, data privacy and knowledge sharing with team members,
• Regularly contribute to and refine Anaplan’s templates, playbooks, and guidance documents,
• Drive collaboration with various stakeholders in the region and around the globe, ensuring that legal matters are effectively and efficiently managed.

For this role, you will have

A certain amount of travel (both domestic and international) is required for this role.

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