Senior Corporate Legal Counsel

Sitecore
London

Description

About Us:

At Sitecore, our mission is to simplify how brands reach, engage, and serve people by delivering intelligent, personalised digital experiences that connect the world. We empower the world’s most iconic brands to build lifelong relationships with their customers—seamlessly, smartly, and at scale.

As the leading provider of agentic digital experience software, Sitecore brings together content, commerce, and data into one composable platform that enables brands to deliver millions of meaningful, adaptive experiences every day. Trusted by global leaders such as American Express, Porsche, Starbucks, and L’Oréal, Sitecore helps brands transform engagement through experiences that are not only personalised but predictive and dynamic.

Our foundation is our people—a diverse, passionate, and collaborative global team spanning over 25 countries. We believe that every experience matters, and that belief starts with how we work together. Our values guide how we lead, innovate, and connect. They are the behaviours that bring our mission and vision to life, every day, in every interaction.

As we continue to evolve, we are actively cultivating AI skills across our teams to unlock new levels of creativity, efficiency, and insight. From engineering to customer experience, AI capabilities are becoming integral to how we design, build, and deliver the next generation of digital experiences.

Learn more at Sitecore.com.

About the Role:

As Corporate Counsel, based in London, reporting to the VP Corporate Legal, you will play a key role in building and driving a broad range of corporate legal matters across Sitecore’s global business, that enable Sitecore to grow as a global SaaS company in an AI-defined era. The role will spansubsidiary governance, corporate transactions, governance processes, corporate records, real estate matters, IP portfolio coordination and complex cross-functional legal initiatives.

You will work closely with the Corporate Legal team and business stakeholders across Finance, Tax, People, Procurement, Treasury and Global Workplace, as well as external counsel and corporate service providers across multiple jurisdictions. You will be expected to lead execution, bring structure to complex workstreamsand deliver practical, business-oriented legal advice in a fast-paced global environment.

The ideal candidate will have strong legal judgment, excellent drafting and communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities independently. You should be comfortable operating with senior stakeholders, coordinating external advisors, and working collaboratively as part of a practical, service-mindedand high-performing legal team.

What You'll Do: 

  • Improve global subsidiary governance across Sitecore’s international portfolio of 35+ entities, including statutory filings, accounts approvals, AGMs, board and shareholder resolutions, director changes, corporate recordsand related filings as well as compliance matters and requirements
  • Prepare, review and own corporate legal documents, including powers of attorney, share transfer agreements, intercompany agreements, governance documentationand legal memoranda
  • Manage coordinationwith external corporate service providers, local counsel and internal stakeholders on entity formations, restructurings, mergers, wind-downs, trade license renewalsand other corporate maintenance matters
  • Lead and independently manage M&A and other corporate transaction workstreams, including diligence, structuring support, NDAs, engagement letters, signing and closing deliverables, corporate approvals and post-closing integration matters, while effectively coordinating and driving external counsel and other advisors
  • Drive complex cross-functional legal initiatives involving Finance, Tax, Treasury, People, Procurement, Global Workplace and other business teams, ensuring clear ownership, timely execution and practical legal support
  • Advise onreal estate and workplace-related matters, including leases, amendmentsand related documentation, to support sound workplace decisions across the global footprint, working closely with the People and Global Workplace teams
  • ManageLegal budget, vendorand outside counsel management, including tracking spend, maintainingbudget materials and partnering with Procurement, AP, Accounting and FP&A as needed
  • Manage intellectual property portfolio management, including coordination of trademark, patent, copyright and domain name matters with external counsel and internal stakeholders
  • Leadintellectual property portfolio management, including coordination of trademark, patent, copyrightand domain name matters with external counsel and internal stakeholders
  • Identify opportunities to simplify, automate and improve recurring legal processes, including through AI-enabled tools and practical workflow improvements
  • Oversee the development and maintenance of internal tracking tools, policies, frameworksand metrics to capture Corporate Legal workstreams, deliverables and progress against priorities, improving visibility, accountabilityand reporting across the function

What You Need to Succeed:

  • A minimum of 8 years of relevant law firm and/or in-house experience in corporate law, including M&A, corporate transactions and multinational governance matters
  • Ability to independently manage complex legal workstreams, drive execution and balance competing priorities in a fast-paced, global environment
  • Experience working cross-functionally with Finance, Tax, Treasury, People, Procurement and other business teams
  • Experience managing intellectual property portfolio coordination and commercial real estate / workplace-related legal matters
  • Experience managing external counsel, advisors and corporate service providers across multiple jurisdictions
  • Strong legal judgment, business acumen, analytical skills and excellent drafting and communication skills
  • Strong AI mindset and practical experience using AI-enabled tools to improve legal workflows, automate recurring processes and scale legal support across the business
  • Comfort working with senior management and handling sensitive, business-critical matters with professionalism and discretion
  • Practical, collaborative and service-oriented mindset, with strong attention to detail and a proactive, solutions-focused approach
  • Interest in legal operations, process improvement and leveraging technology / AI-enabled tools to scale legal support

Why Join Sitecore?

  • Join a global legal team in a time of transformation – we are operating in a rapidly expanding market with significant opportunities for career development
  • A supportive and collaborative culture – recognised for our award‑winning company culture and commitment to diversity and inclusion
  • Work closely with senior leaders across the business and the broader legal team - with visible impact on how Sitecore operates globally and how legal supports the business

Equal Opportunities at Sitecore  

Sitecore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity without unlawful regard to race, colour, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other local legally protected characteristic.

Posted 2026-05-27

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