Legal Counsel, Disputes & Litigation
Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, our customers, having fun, and most importantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!
Role
We are seeking an experienced and motivated litigator to join Splunk’s growing Compliance, Employment & Risk team which includes Compliance, Litigation & Investigations, Employment, and support of Splunk’s PubSec compliance efforts. This person will focus on disputes and litigation, supporting the Litigation & Investigations team and coordinating closely with the Compliance and Employment teams. This person will be highly collaborative and entrepreneurial, embracing the opportunity to help innovate, drive, and scale best-in-class litigation and dispute programs, build internal relationships, drive strategy across multiple functions, and anticipate evolving risk in a global market. This person will be flexible, creative, and self-motivated—showing initiative and perseverance, resourcefulness, a strong work ethic, a collaborative approach, and a sense of humor. This position will report to the Senior Counsel, Litigation & Investigations.
Responsibilities
As Litigation & Investigations Counsel, you will handle a broad range of risk management issues in a global environment. Specifically, you will:
- Develop and drive scalable litigation and dispute-related processes and procedures to support a rapidly-growing global business.
- Enhance the Company’s eDiscovery program, including developing and refining guidelines and processes and ongoing review and assessment of communication and collaboration tools, working closely with the Legal Operations teams.
- Support global litigation and pre-litigation matters across a wide range of issues.
- Support all facets of civil litigation including assessing and responding to subpoenas, garnishment orders, and bankruptcy notices; reviewing and revising pleadings, motions, written discovery, and correspondence; assisting with document collection and review; and interviewing witnesses and preparing witnesses for testimony.
- Help manage outside counsel relationships, including staffing, litigation strategy, work product, day-to-day case activity, and budgets.
- Work closely with internal business partners across the organization to proactively address and resolve potential disputes while supporting business objectives.
- Support the team on a variety of internal investigations in collaboration with other applicable corporate functions, including Internal Audit, Finance, HR, and Sales.
- Coordinate with the team on remediation and corrective action as appropriate for violations of Splunk policies and procedures.
- Track and report on status and outcomes of investigations, litigation matters, and dispute resolution issues.
- Develop automated and scalable processes that allow for verification and auditing. Whenever possible, use Splunk technology to drive these efforts.
Requirements: I've already done that or have that!
The candidate must have:
- J. D. and good standing to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction.
- Minimum of 5 years of litigation experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house, handling all aspects of civil litigation, including pre-litigation analysis and strategy, pleadings, fact and expert discovery, third-party discovery, and dispositive motions.
- Deep knowledge of eDiscovery issues, including document retention policies and procedures, and collection, review, and production of documents.
- Ability to provide practical, actionable advice while balancing risks and business reward.
- Strong organizational skills, an ability to juggle multiple projects at a time in a fast-moving, quickly-changing environment, both collaborating as a team and working independently.
- Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal and ability to advocate for a position while maintaining an open-minded approach.
- Experience working with or in a fast-paced multinational b2b or enterprise software company with a channel sales model preferred.
- Combination of both in-house and law firm experience desired.
- Comfortable presenting to and engaging with senior leaders.
- Experience creating and conducting formal presentations and trainings globally.
- Ability to travel (domestically and internationally).
- Sense of Humor!
We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
Note: Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out below, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.
Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, an ESPP and much more! Learn more about our comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering at https://splunkbenefits.com.
Base Pay Range
SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range: $176,000.00 - 242,000.00 per year
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts
Base Pay Range: $164,000.00 - 225,500.00 per year
All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.
Base Pay Range: $153,600.00 - 211,200.00 per year
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About Splunk
Splunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Machine data is one of the fastest growing and most complex areas of big data—generated by every component of IT infrastructures, applications, mobile phone location data, website clickstreams, social data, sensors, RFID and much more.
Splunk is focused specifically on the challenges and opportunity of taking massive amounts of machine data, and providing powerful insights from that data. IT insights. Security insights. Business insights. It’s what we call Operational Intelligence.
Since shipping its software in 2006, Splunk now has over 13,000 customers in more than 110 countries around the world. These organizations are using Splunk to harness the power of their machine data to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce costs. Innovation is in our DNA – from technology to the way we do business. Splunk is the platform for Operational Intelligence!
Splunk has more than 2,700 global employees, with headquarters in San Francisco, an office in San Jose, CA and regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong.
We’ve built a phenomenal foundation for success with a proven leadership team, highly passionate employees and unique patented software. We invite you to help us continue our drive to define a new industry and become part of an innovative, and disruptive software company.
Benefits & Perks: Wow! This is really cool!
SF Only
Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO, sick leave, stocked micro kitchens in Splunk offices, catered lunches on Mondays, catered breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer, “Fun Fridays”.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Non SF
Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO and sick leave. Our work environments vary by location however we believe in hosting amenities and fun activities to fuel our energy. You may find fully stocked micro kitchens, catered lunches on Mondays and breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer and “Fun Fridays”.
This isn’t a job – it’s a life changer – are you ready?
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