Nokia

United States (Hybrid)

As Head of Legal for Global Webscale and Alliances, you will join a diverse team in a fast paced and supporting environment. You will lead a team supporting Nokia’s global webscaler and alliances customers drawing on your legal and solid webscaler ecosystem experience . You will shape growth and strategy in these key customer segments, collaborate with regional legal teams, manage complex sales agreements, and resolve disputes. This role offers professional growth and insights into diverse legal challenges beyond contractual and commercial issues. This position reports to the General Counsel of our Network Infrastructure (NI) business group.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE AND WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Provide strategic legal support on complex multi jurisdictional agreements.
• Develop Nokia's legal position with BigWeb and Global Alliance customers.
• Negotiate to resolve conflicts and secure desired outcomes to bolster Nokia’s growth in these key segments.
• Identify and advise stakeholders on key legal and contractual risks and mitigations, securing deal approvals.
• Develop and offer training of different formats to different audiences inside the company
• Develop and execute solutions for channel conflicts within the company.
• Work across departments and jurisdictions in a leading technology company.
• Collaborate with regional teams due to specific local requirements for local arrangements.

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Seeking a qualified lawyer with extensive experience in telecommunications transactional legal advice and contracting with expertise in Webscalers or Global Alliances.
• Must be qualified to practice in a key jurisdiction where Nokia operates. USA would be ideal for this position.
• Demonstrated solid experience in handling complex legal matters on a global scale.
• Experience working for a complex international highly matrix organization in a similar position.
• Ability to align Nokia's business strategy with sales contracting priorities is essential.
• Possesses excellent interpersonal and communication skills in English.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively within a matrixed organization.
• Prior experience and knowledge in regulatory or intellectual property law would be advantageous.

About Us

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work

What we offer

Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people. Nokia’s employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.

About the Team

The pandemic has highlighted how important telecoms networks are to society. Nokia’s Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to bring more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise.

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Job Info

• Job Category Legal
• Posting Date 05/06/2025, 11:23 AM
• Locations 3201 Olympus Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 75019, US 520 Almanor Avenue, Sunnyvale, California, 94085, US 600-700 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 07974-0636, US 2000 W Lucent Lane, Naperville, Illinois, 60563-1443, US (Hybrid)
• Apply Before 05/13/2025, 12:00 AM
• Degree Level Bachelor’s Degree
• Job Schedule Full time
• Role Type People Manager
• US/Canada Salary Range US Annual Base Salary Range: $192,024- $250,500 USD *Plus, potential incentive/variable compensation for eligible roles. Canada Annual Base Salary Range: $165,576-$250,000 CAD *Plus, potential incentive/variable compensation for eligible roles.
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