Legal Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Shutterstock

Description

Shutterstock is a growing, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment within a disruptive marketplace.

Well-positioned as the disruptive new leader in the digital content space, Shutterstock has the largest crowd-sourced digital content libraries in the world that includes images, vectors, video and music.

We manage a library of creative building blocks for a broad, expanding customer base creating new opportunities with every new customer segment, globally.

About the Opportunity:
Shutterstock's Legal team partners with the global team to deliver innovative business solutions and strategically manage risk. We are collaborative, empathetic, resourceful and, most-importantly, a fun and tight-knit group.

We are looking for a Legal Assistant to work closely with the members of the Legal Department, providing support to the Company's corporate functions and business operations.

The day to day:

• Manage and maintain digital and hard copy filing systems, including contract database and shared drives. Develop best practices for records management.
• Coordinate and track legal matters and transactions from inception through deadlines, renewals and conclusion to signature, including preparing documents for signature.
• Maintain a library of preapproved form documents, contract clauses, templates, and historical documents, and add or revise material as needed.
• Create and deliver initial drafts of form agreements including NDAs, vendor and supplier contracts and independent contractor agreements.
• Update and manage workflows, including prioritizing requests and ensuring deadlines are met, including managing legal project queues in project management system.
• Assist with other tasks and projects on an asneeded basis

What you'll bring to the role:

• Demonstrated experience as a legal assistant or paralegal in a fast-paced corporate or law-firm environment desired.
• Self-driven, organized individual who can work independently and can prioritize and manage multiple matters simultaneously in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Results-oriented, entrepreneurial, resourceful and strong ability to problem-solve and identify and resolve issues.
• "Can-do-attitude". Enthusiastic, Optimistic, and Open-Minded. No task too big or too small.
• Strong communication (verbal and written), design, and presentation skills with the confidence to interface with executive level leadership. Extremely professional with excellent judgment and utmost discretion in handling highly sensitive and confidential matters.
• Proficiency with Google Apps, Microsoft Office and cloud-based storage (i.e., Box).

A plus if you have:

• Proficiency with agile project management tools, collaboration tools, endtoend contract management databases and legal billing software (i.e., Jira, Confluence, Salesforce, SimpleLegal, respectively).
• Interest in pursuing a career as a paralegal, contract manager, or continuing your education in law school.

Why Shutterstock:

• You have a direct impact on the success of the company. Your team's work matters and is essential to the evolution of our core business
• Executive leadership cares personally. They prioritize growth and planning your career path with your goals and passions in mind.
• Flexibility to work between home and office with everything you need to be successful in both
• A generous and competitive benefits package.

Shutterstock connects diverse artists and creative professionals around the globe with the agencies, brands and people who need their work and services.

It's a place where creators come to be inspired and discover new ways to produce their best work.

Shutterstock enables its employees to drive culture and tap into the world around them to develop the toolbox and solutions that help others share their world views.

At Shutterstock, your ideas will be welcomed, your uniqueness will be celebrated, and you will be supported in presenting your view of the world as you experience it.

We're champions of resiliency; quickly learning from our shortcomings in our pursuit of continuous growth.

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Shutterstock Values

We are one team collectively focused on creating an unrivaled experience for our Customers and Contributors.

Our Values

represent the mindset of the employee who will thrive at Shutterstock.

If you are passionate about what you do, and want to become part of a cutting-edge technology company building industry leading products, please apply.