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Legal Counsel - Product and Commercialization - US/Canada - REMOTE

BMC Software, Inc
$114,525 - $190,875
United States, New York, New York
Apr 09, 2026
BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry-leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the world's largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage. BMC's dynamic corporate teams are strategic and trusted advisors to the global organization supporting, enhancing, and driving BMC's vision, culture, growth, and so much more. Each individual within the corporate teams is a valued partner to the overarching success of BMC's employees and customers. If you are looking for a company that gives you the freedom to expand your role, focuses highly on your professional development through continuous enablement, gives you an environment where you would feel happy to come to work, then BMC is the place to be. Join us as Legal Counsel for Product and Commercialization! As a Legal Counsel at BMC, you serve as a trusted advisor to business, product and sales executives, focusing primarily on counseling our product management and engineering teams from the early stages of product development through product launch. You will work closely with product management, product development, engineering, business strategy and marketing teams, as well as with subject matter experts in the Legal Department, to provide counselling on a wide range of legal topics. We welcome your ideas on how to do things differently and better. You will get to work with a highly-collaborative, close-knit team in an exciting, fast-paced environment. Here is how, through this exciting role, YOU will contribute to BMC's and your own success: Partner closely with product management, engineering, and business teams to deeply understand our products, technologies, and cloud services; provide proactive, business-focused legal guidance from concept through launch to maximize legal viability and ensure compliance with contractual, regulatory, data security, and privacy obligations. Deliver clear, concise, and commercially practical legal advice and creative solutions to internal clients on tight timelines, including reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements, such as SaaS, license, OEM, professional services, data privacy, reseller, distributor, confidentiality, and other agreements. Build strong, collaborative relationships with product development teams and multiple levels of management while advising on new products, features, and business initiatives to address legal and regulatory risks effectively. To ensure you are set up for success, you will bring the following skillset & experience: You hold a Law degree and are licensed to practice in good standing in one jurisdiction in the United States or Canada, with at least 5 years of relevant technology transaction experience within an enterprise software/tech company. You hold a US and Canadian Data Privacy certification. You have a customer-focused mentality and demonstrate the ability to build strong working relationships and collaborate closely with key cross-functional stakeholders. You are able to balance multiple challenging responsibilities simultaneously while remaining responsive to internal clients and BMC's customers. You enjoy working independently in a fast-paced environment, showing flexibility and an openness to new ways to solve problems. You have a solid understanding of the software sales cycle and are committed to supporting the organization through the quarter and year end processes and deadlines. You are open to supporting sales teams in multiple regions and time zones. Familiarity with US Anti-trust law is a plus. Our commitment to you! BMC's culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You won't be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU! If after reading the above, you are unsure if you meet the qualifications of this role but are deeply excited about BMC and this team, we still encourage you to apply! We want to attract talents from diverse backgrounds and experience to ensure we face the world together with the best ideas! BMC is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, age, sex, creed, color, religion, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy, disabled veteran or status as a protected veteran. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, visit the accommodation request page. BMC Software maintains a strict policy of not requesting any form of payment in exchange for employment opportunities, upholding a fair and ethical hiring process. The annual base salary range represents the low and high end of the BMC salary range for this position. Actual salaries depend on a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training, licensure, and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of BMC's employee compensation package. Other rewards may include a variable plan and country specific benefits. At BMC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at /near the top of the range. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $114,525 - $190,875