Legal Counsel, Licensing and Strategic Sourcing

Ready to make a tangible impact on global industries as a strategic legal partner? Trimble is looking for a proactive and pragmatic Legal Counsel to help us navigate complex licensing, strategic sourcing, and payment processing needs while driving our mission to connect the physical and digital worlds.

About Trimble

Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. Trimble empowers customers to drive productivity and progress with connected hardware and software solutions. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it is helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress. Trimble's Legal team helps drive this as a strategic partner to the business, delivering proactive, pragmatic, and creative solutions through a risk-managed approach, and prioritizing execution and integrity to enable Trimble's success.

What Makes This Role Great:

In this role, reporting to Trimble's VP Legal, you will be more than just an attorney; you will be a key legal partner directly influencing Trimble's business and operational excellence and driving business results. You will have the unique opportunity to partner with business teams and provide guidance on a critical segment of the business-licensing and global sourcing-to allow our business to thrive in a fast-paced, global environment.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

* Drive global innovation by drafting and negotiating sophisticated SaaS, cloud, and other commercial licensing and strategic sourcing agreements that power our business and digital transformation.

* Act as the primary internal legal advisor for Trimble's payment processing relationships, providing high-level oversight and guidance to the Payments team.

* Provide strategic advice and direction to senior leadership, evaluating legal risks and identifying creative solutions to support business goals.

* Collaborate across business units to manage disputes and mentor contract professionals on complex legal negotiations.

Essential Skills & Experience

* You have 7+ years of legal experience with a deep focus on drafting and negotiating complex SaaS, payment processing, and commercial contracts.

* You hold a J.D. from an accredited law school and are in good standing with the bar in your state of employment.

* You possess exceptional negotiation and communication skills, with a proven talent for translating legal complexity into clear business solutions.

* Experience using AI in a business context to efficiently generate high-quality work product.

Bonus Points For:

* Experience within a large law firm or the in-house legal department of a global public company.

* Prior experience navigating legal challenges specifically within the tech or industrial hardware sectors.

Logistics

Location: Westminster, CO or Lake Oswego, OR (in-person at least 4 days/week)

Travel Requirement: Up to 5%

Why You'll Love Working With Us

At Trimble, we are not just a company that "does good"-we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow. You will work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you will be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.

Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We are a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work. Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You will find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."

Compensation: Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

Hiring Range

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Bonus Eligible?

Commission Eligible?

Benefits: Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the 'Apply Now' button located in this posting.

Application Deadline: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.

At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values-Belong, Innovate, and Grow-we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under "Corporate Governance."

Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening, asking questions, and taking intentional actions, we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow.

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