About Us:

Accredible makes it easy for the world's best educational institutions to issue credentials, awards, qualifications and licenses digitally rather than on paper. Our customers include Google, Harvard, MIT, Oxford University, McGraw Hill, Slack, iHop, GMAC, the CFP Board and 1300+ others, on behalf of whom we have issued over 22 million credentials to learners all over the world to date, and we're adding over 1.5 million per month. After first hitting profitability and then raising our Series A the company has grown from a team of fifteen to a team of fifty and we are looking for exceptional people to join us and help us turn our pirate ship into a navy.

Open and Inclusive. We welcome people of any gender identity or expression, race, skin colour, ethnicity, age, size, nationality, sexual orientation, ability level, neurotype, religion, elder status, family structure, culture, subculture, political views, education level, identity, and self-identification. We welcome teachers, learners, activists, artists, dreamers, doers, ordinary people, extraordinary people, and everyone in between.

About The Role:

Your role is essential to our success as we look to grow our legal team. This role will sit in our operations arm and will report to our CEO. This is the first time Accredible is bringing a legal resource in house, so in particular we are searching for someone who likes the challenge of building and optimizing processes. This role will be responsible for ensuring Accredible can move sales agreements quickly through the legal process. Protecting Accredible against risk whilst also maintaining speed of execution is essential. You will also be responsible for assessing and optimising the legal process to improve speed of negotiations and reduce cost to Accredible.

Your day to day job will include:

• Managing the sales legal pipeline
• Negotiating legal terms with prospective clients
• Liaising with specialist third party legal firms where needed
• Reviewing and ratifying all sales legal agreements 
• Be the in-house voice for all sales legal matters 
• Improve and Optimise the legal process

Requirements:

Role based:

• Legal Savviness. You must have experience in redlining and negotiating US corporate law agreements.
• Attention to detail. You must easily be able to spot mistakes, errors or oversights.
• Negotiation. Must be an excellent negotiator and able to understand and mitigate objections.
• Risk analysis. Must be able to quickly understand and calculate potential legal risks to Accredible.
• Organization. Must be extremely organized and able to handle many agreements at once.
• Communication. Must have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with both internal and external stakeholders.

Cultural:

• Proactive communicator: You are self-driven and able to voluntarily, clearly, and succinctly communicate ideas and problems to peers to customers. You maintain high standards of written and verbal communication.

• Honesty & Integrity: You do what is right, don't cut corners that aren't ethical and are open about your work.

• Openness to criticism & ideas: You understand that we have to constantly improve and aren't shy about seeking and receiving suggestions for areas of improvement.

• Enthusiastic: You demonstrate the ability to quickly absorb and make use of new information. You can research best practices and make use of them. You want to learn and grow and are excited to take on new challenges.

• Quick learner: You know that you need to actively learn and develop yourself and take pride in developing new skills.

• Proactive in problem-solving: You are able to take initiative, responsibility and solve issues yourself.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• Equity/Stock options
• Flexible hours & remote work
• A close, dedicated startup team who are passionate about improving the education system and who are backed by some of Silicon Valley's top venture capital investors
• Two hours per week (paid) to spend learning anything you like, even if it is not related to your role, plus a budget to spend on learning materials (courses, books, conferences). We love education and we believe in nurturing your growth!
• A promise to invest in your growth personally and professionally. Wherever you would like to go and whatever you would like to do, we will be there to support you.
• Enrolment in the company pension scheme
• 35 days paid vacation time
• Many additional perks!

Who we are:

Remote First. Accredible is spread across dozens of cities around the globe. From Cape Town to Vancouver, London to New York, our employees live and work in the places that they thrive, wherever they thrive.

Growing Strong. We are growing and will continue to expand rapidly. We seek to increase momentum and build a professional, scalable, and efficient team whilst maintaining our friendly, open, and democratic culture.

We Love What We Do. We get to help startups get their training programs off the ground and watch their social referrals double, see associations experience double digit membership growth, and enable established companies to transform training and development. We're passionate about our product – and what it can do for our customers.