Senior Counsel, Real Estate

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of Zipline's product and service offerings, business and sales strategy, mission and values.
• Confidently, efficiently, and thoughtfully draft, negotiate, and close real estate leases for drone charging infrastructure, maintenance and testing facilities, and other real estate interests, with
• minimal oversight.
• Independently manage the entire contracting process for deals that you support-from initial scoping to final execution, working cross-functionally with business units across Zipline, including the Operations, Sales, Finance, Information Security, Privacy, and Aviation Teams.
• Contribute to improving Zipline's deal templates and forms, taking into consideration the business's goals and any factors unique to the customers that the applicable agreement is targeting.
• Ability to train and mentor junior attorneys and paralegals.
• Support landlord escalations and help implement efficient lease management processes.
• Help build and socialize thoughtful, repeatable, and rigorous deal processes that bring predictability and calm to your clients on the Site Acquisitions Team and streamline and simplify deals.
• Think outside the box when a transaction calls for it, bringing simple and elegant contractual solutions to potentially convoluted and chaotic situations.
• Build genuine relationships with each member of the Operations Team so that you are in sync whenclosing lease agreements.
• When called upon, a willingness to dive-in to provide support on needs that arise across the Legal team.

Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise negotiating complex commercial lease agreements, including non-standard or infrastructure-related uses.
• Clear, cogent, and pragmatic contract drafting skills that you are a passionate and prideful nerd about.
• You thrive in high-pressure and time-sensitive situations and love the feeling of undramatically and quickly closing critical contracts for and with the business.
• Effective, tactful, friendly, and high-integrity negotiation skills, both verbally and in writing.
• Strong communication and project management skills that you deploy when leading the charge to close a deal.
• You are not easily overwhelmed or fearful of first-in-time deals or contractual provisions-rather, you seize the opportunity to draft from scratch and gain new contracting experience.
• Strong time management skills that enable you to set aggressive but realistic deadlines that you meet (and usually beat), even with competing priorit

Benefits

Additional Information

About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Our customers include the world's largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe. We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. About You and The Role The Zipline Legal Team is searching for an experienced, technically-sound, and process-oriented Senior Counsel who will smoothly and repeatedly close leases for critical infrastructure with our Operations Team, and provide legal support on a range of real estate matters. In this role, you will be a senior lawyer on real estate agreements, working especially closely with the Sales, Operations, and Finance Teams on scoping, drafting, negotiating, and closing agreements across our business. You'll pair your surgical legal drafting and deft negotiation skills with your tireless project management skills to capture and execute strategic commercial agreements that the business is proud of. You'll be a core member of a strong, friendly, passionate, in-house legal function and will report to Zipline's Deputy General Counsel-Head of Commercial.

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