Legal Counsel: Milestone #1
Legal Counsel: Milestone #2
Legal Counsel: Milestone #3
Legal Councel PDP
This page contains the different roles within the Legal Counsel path. Choose the relevant role you want to learn about. You can also enter the “Professional Path” (coming soon) to access the relevant skills and resources. đź”™
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IC Path
Senior Legal Counsel Advisor
Management Path
Senior Legal Counsel: Milestone #1
Senior Legal Counsel: Milestone #2
Senior Legal Counsel: Milestone #3
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Ownership
Professional skills
Complexity
Business impact
Leadership
Collaboration
Managerial capabilities
Legal Counsel: Milestone #1
Professional Path
Ownership
Owner of certain processes within a field and work closely under the close guidance of the field owner. Some processes in 1-2 domains
Behaviors
- TBC
Professional skills
An excellent professional with relevant knowledge and experience in the hi-tech field. Work under direct supervision with some proactive actions in your field (3-5/y experience).
Behaviors
- A good understanding of the company’s product
- Understanding SAAS and some technical understanding
Important strength
- Continuous learner – able to learn new fields from A to Z – fast but thorough
- Able to map major risks
- Able to work under workload
- Growth personality (desire to continuously improve performance)
Complexity
Able to identify the legal challenges in a question/advise or project (mapping, asking questions).
Important strength
- Scrapy
- Creative
- Able to solve professional challenges, within her/his field, independently
- Not being distracted by multiple tasks and fields
Business impact
Foster a culture of speed and high-level execution within your domain.
Behaviors
- Within her/his field understands the goal of a question/business initiative or the rationale of action
- Crafts a solution that achieves the end result with a managed risk
Leadership
Other teams feel comfortable approaching you and getting help. Empathy – You are able to stand in the place of the other party (e.g. customer, team member). You motivate and engage your team and peers to consider “legal aspects”.
Important strength
- Motivation, empathy, (basic level; see above) communication, and interpersonal skills
- Self-criticism (basic level)
- Assertive and able to negotiate with some guidance
Collaboration
Clear and consistent communication, keeping your team members and stakeholders updated with what matters.
Behaviors
- Embrace feedback from team members and stakeholders
- Foster collaboration within your domain
Important strength
- Open-mindedness
- Adaptability
- Service-oriented
Legal Counsel: Milestone #2
Professional Path
Ownership
Owner of certain processes within a field and work closely with little/no guidance by field owner. Some processes in 1-2 domains.
Behaviors
- TBC
Professional skills
An excellent professional with relevant knowledge and experience in the hi-tech field. Work under direct supervision with some proactive actions in your field (3-5/y experience).
Behaviors
- A good understanding of the company’s product
- Understanding SAAS and some technical understanding
- Consistent performance at the same levels, while starting to learn new areas and own more processes
- Good understanding of the company’s industry and competition
Important strength
- Continuous learner – able to learn new fields from A to Z – fast but thorough
- Able to map major risks
- Able to work under workload
- Growth personality (desire to continuously improve performance)
Complexity
Able to identify the legal challenges in a question/advise or project.
Behaviors
- With no guidance from a legal perspective in your processes (guidance on other processes that you start to learn), but if you are at monday less than 6 months, then guidance related to company strategy
- Starting to craft more complex solutions with some guidance
Important strength
- Scrapy
- Creative
- Able to solve professional challenges, within her/his field, independently
- Not being distracted by multiple tasks and fields
Business impact
Foster a culture of speed and high-level execution within your domain.
Behaviors
- Works more consistently and with no professional guidance
- Starting to initiate and craft independent solutions
- Crafts a solution that achieves the end result with a managed risk
- Within her/his field understands the goal of a question/business initiative or the rationale of action
Leadership
Other teams feel comfortable approaching you and getting help. Empathy – You are able to stand in the place of the other party (e.g. customer, team member). You motivate and engage your team and peers to consider “legal aspects”.
Behaviors
- Able to reach a higher level of empathy in which you can independently understand the rationale of the other party
- Able to negotiate an agreement with no guidance
- Able to negotiate with no guidance
Important strength
- Motivation, empathy, (basic level; see above) communication, and interpersonal skills
- Self-criticism (basic level)
- Assertive and able to negotiate with some guidance
Collaboration
Clear and consistent communication, keeping your team members and stakeholders updated with what matters.
Behaviors
- Embrace feedback from team members and stakeholders
- Foster collaboration within your domain
- Proven ability to adapt to changes
- Viewed by peers as a team player
- Starting to maintain trustable relationships with peers
- Possesses the capacity to compromise and is willing to make concessions in order to move the group forward in finding solutions
- Develop processes to ensure information and knowledge are shared in support of the company’s aims and objectives
Important strength
- Open-mindedness
- Adaptability
- Service-oriented
Legal Counsel: Milestone #3
Professional Path
Ownership
Being a legal focal point in a domain area, with guidance from a senior position. 1-2 domain area.
Behaviors
- Manage external counsels in this area and their budget
- Able to be versatile with close guidance
Professional skills
An excellent professional with relevant knowledge and experience in the Hi-Tech field. Work under direct supervision with some proactive actions in your field (3-5/y experience).
Behaviors
- Broader scope and less guidance than Milestone # 2
- Good understanding of the company’s product
- Familiar with the relevant trends on technology as well as legal in the domains you manage
- Understanding SAAS and technical understanding
- Consistent performance at the same levels, while starting to learn new areas and own more processes
- Good understanding of the company’s industry and competition
Important strength
- Continuous learner – able to learn new fields from A to Z – fast but thorough
- Able to map major risks
- Able to work under workload
- Growth personality (desire to continuously improve performance)
Complexity
Able to identify the legal challenges in a question/advise or project. Same as the previous milestone (#2) but in a broader scope, with less guidance, and more complex challenges.
Behaviors
- With no guidance from a legal perspective in your processes (guidance on other processes that you start to learn), but if you are at monday less than 6 months, then guidance related to company strategy
- Able to breakdown a complex project or a challenge and map all effects and potential ways of action
- Starting to craft more complex solutions with some guidance
Important strength
- Able to simplify the complex
- Ability to adapt to fast changes
- Makes bold & smart decisions, even when lacking consensus
- Able to successfully take managed risks
- Outside the box thinking
Business impact
You are expected to drive more proactive actions within your domain, in line with the company’s strategy and KPIs.
Behaviors
- Identify potential deal blockers
- Initiate internal processes for better and efficient work management
Leadership
Other teams feel comfortable approaching you and getting help. Empathy – You are able to stand in the place of the other party (e.g. customer, team member). You motivate and engage your team and peers to consider “legal aspects”.
Behaviors
- Viewed by your peers a trustable legal focal point and an enabler
- You nurture your peers and empower them to make more informative decisions
- Able to manage your own work and time as well as meeting deadlines
- Able to reach a higher level of empathy in which you can independently understand the rationale of the other party
- A good negotiator with strong empathy
- Able to negotiate an agreement with no guidance
Important strength
- Motivation, empathy, (basic level; see above) communication, and interpersonal skills
- Self-criticism (basic level)
- Assertive and able to negotiate with some guidance
Collaboration
Clear and consistent communication, keeping your team members and stakeholders updated with what matters.
Behaviors
- Ability to influence your team members
- Viewed by peers as a team player
- Actively solicit feedback from others and embrace
- Strong conflict-resolution skills
- You acknowledge that group goals are important than personal ones.
- Ability to actively listen to others’ viewpoints as well as facilitating and positively contributing to group discussions
- Excellent organizational skills, managing different communication channels and being able to clearly and concisely update colleagues on progress and milestones achieved
- Foster collaboration within your domain
- Proven ability to adapt to changes
- Starting to maintain trustable relationships with peers
- Possesses the capacity to compromise and is willing to make concessions in order to move the group forward in finding solutions
- Develop processes to ensure information and knowledge are shared in support of the company’s aims and objectives
Important strength
- Open-mindedness
- Adaptability
- Service-oriented
Senior Legal Counsel Advisor
Professional Path
Ownership
Being a legal focal point in a domain area, with little/no guidance from a senior position.
Behaviors
- Could be mentoring and guiding less experienced counsels within the same domains
- Manages external counsels in this area and their budget
- Within at least 2 domain areas (at least one is CORE) and able to be versatile with minor/no guidance
- Leads more complex domains like HR, Corporate, Equity, Marketing, Product Compliance, Sales, etc.
Professional skills
A master in her/his domains. +10 years of experience.
Behaviors
- Fully independent in the field – requires no professional/business guidance, but only mentoring and brainstorming
- Applies the strategy of the company on her/his own domains, with the ability to foresee future needs and address them with a focus on both short and long terms efforts, which includes building the infrastructure required for a smooth scale
- An expert of the business in its own domains – our technology as well as competitive landscape
Important strength
- Proactive approach
- Ability to zoom-out and identify issues/opportunities for improvement
Complexity
Able to identify the legal challenges in a question/advise or project. Ability to manage and execute highly complex cross-company projects from A to Z.
Behaviors
- Deals independently with the legal and business challenges within your domains, in a manner that is aligned with the company’s strategy and direction
- With no guidance from a legal perspective in your processes (guidance on other processes that you start to learn), but if you are at monday less than 6 months, then guidance related to company strategy
- Able to breakdown a complex project or a challenge and map all effects and potential ways of action
- Starting to craft more complex solutions with no guidance
Important strength
- More consistent and in a broader scope than Milestone #3
- Able to simplify the complex
- Ability to adapt to fast changes
- Makes bold & smart decisions, even when lacking consensus
- Able to successfully take managed risks
- Outside the box thinking
Business impact
You are expected to drive more proactive actions within your domain, in line with the company’s strategy and KPIs.
Behaviors
- More consistency than Milestone #3
- Implementing infrastructure within your domains that is built for scale, as well as internal and external processes that aim to improve efficiency (also budget, HC, etc.), identify weak spots, and empower other teams to make informed decisions
- Independently prioritize work accomplish high-quality work with clarity of focus
- Setting direction, driving professional decisions, and/or providing input into a company-wide strategy that has a mid and long-term impact on the company’s business
- Able to independently manage and take care of any aspect of your domains
- Identifies potential deal blockers
- Initiates internal processes for better and efficient work management
Leadership
Other teams feel comfortable approaching you and getting help. Empathy – You are able to stand in the place of the other party (e.g. customer, team member). You motivate and engage your team and peers to consider “legal aspects”.
Behaviors
- More consistency on timing and deadlines than Milestone #3
- Actively drive alignment and motivate the teams towards the domain’s mission goals
- Enhances an existing vision or create a new vision, and rally the team towards it
- Empowers others to fulfill their potential
- Grows and mentors others (not necessarily in your domain)
- Fosters company culture, creating alignments among teams and ensuring adherence to the company’s strategy
- Viewed by your peers a trustable legal focal point and an enabler
- Nurtures your peers and empower them to make more informative decisions
- Able to manage your own work and time as well as meeting deadlines
- Able to reach a higher level of empathy in which you can independently understand the rationale of the other party
- A good negotiator with strong empathy
- Able to negotiate an agreement with no guidance
Important strength
- Self-management
- Strategic thinking
- Strong business understanding
Collaboration
Clear and consistent communication, keeping your team members and stakeholders updated with what matters, and fostering cross-team collaboration in your domains
Behaviors
- Creates the rapport environment, in which you and others are more receptive to feedback and will likely share their own, and the work is harmonious
- Identifies areas of non-alignment, even when not related to you, and you fix it
- Ability to influence your team members
- Viewed by peers as a team player
- Actively solicit feedback from others and embrace
- Strong conflict-resolution skills
- You acknowledge that group goals are important than personal ones
- Ability to actively listen to others’ viewpoints as well as facilitates and positively contributes to group discussions
- Excellent organizational skills, managing different communication channels and being able to clearly and concisely update colleagues on progress and milestones achieved
- Foster collaboration within your domain
- Proven ability to adapt to changes
- Starting to maintain trustable relationships with peers
- Possesses the capacity to compromise and is willing to make concessions in order to move the group forward in finding solutions
- Develop processes to ensure information and knowledge are shared in support of the company’s aims and objectives
Important strength
- Open-mindedness
- Adaptability
- Service-oriented
Senior Legal Counsel: Milestone #1
Professional Path
Ownership
TBC
Behaviors
- TBC
Professional skills
TBC
Behaviors
- TBC
Complexity
TBC
Behaviors
- TBC
Business impact
TBC
Behaviors
- TBC
Leadership
TBC
Behaviors
- TBC
Collaboration
TBC
Behaviors
- TBC
Managerial capabilities
TBC
Behaviors
- TBC
Senior Legal Counsel: Milestone #2
Professional Path
Ownership
Being a legal focal point in a domain area, with no guidance from a senior position, apart from alignment and brainstorming. Within at least 3 domain areas (at least 2 are CORE) and able to oversee other domains and mentor others, regardless of their domain.
Behaviors
- Mentoring and guiding less experienced counsels within the same domains
- Manages external counsels in this area and their budget.
Professional skills
A professional guru at the company’s core business ( (+10/y of experience); constitutes a superior professional expert that is recognized internally and externally; contributes to the body of knowledge within the area of expertise.
Behaviors
- Broader scope and more consistent than Milestone #4
- Being a businessman first and a lawyer second
- Able to identify new strategic business opportunities, not only within your domain
Complexity
Same as the previous level – TBC
Behaviors
- Excellent execution of complex and unknown areas. Leads successfully a cross-group/ departmental teams
- Stays up to date with new methodologies and influences other group members (beyond the legal field)
Business impact
Same as the previous level with more consistency – TBC
Behaviors
- Wins the confidence of senior management and be seen not only as a lawyer but a strategic business partner who is a driver of change, revenue, and innovation for the business
- Consistently lead a successful strategy of your domains.
- Impacting other groups’ objectives (e.g. sales, marketing) while outperforming on the ownership of your primary domain
- Able to consistently identify new business/improvement opportunities and allocates the right resources to pursue them
Leadership
Same as previous level more consistency – TBC
Behaviors
- Ability to influence the vision of other domains within your group
- Constantly improves the performance of the domain and/or of a domain member
- Mentors others, not only with your professional knowledge but also to create better alignment, and implement company culture across the company
Collaboration
TBC
Same as previous with more consistently
Behaviors
- With more consistently (??)
Managerial capabilities
TBC
Behaviors
- TBC
Senior Legal Counsel: Milestone #3
Professional Path
Ownership
You start to be the direct manager of a team (this milestone not only depends on your capabilities but also on the size of the entire Legal team and its structure).Within at least 3 domain areas (at least 2 are CORE).
Behaviors
- Able to oversee any work, from small to complex in any domain, with no guidance
- Able to oversee other domains and mentor others, regardless of their domain
- Proven mentorship of others in other domains.
Professional skills
TBC
Behaviors
- Consistent across the board
- Able to educate other team members to fulfill their potential
Complexity
TBC
Same as the previous level with more consistency across the board
Behaviors
- TBC
Business impact
TBC
Same as the previous level with full consistency
Behaviors
- Able to mentor and nurture others to excel in their own positions
- Contributing to the general strategy and roadmap of the company
- Strong ability to navigate among various disciplines
- Take smart decisions and prioritize
Leadership
Your subordinates or other people in your domain see you as a guru and are happy to be led by you.
Behaviors
- Being trusted as a leader across the company and not only within your domains
Collaboration
Foster alignment and collaboration among various departments and teams, even where not directly related to your domains.
Behaviors
- TBC
Managerial capabilities
TBC
Behaviors
- Able to support others’ personal growth
- Able to identify needed talent capabilities and manage talents
- Able to delegate authority and allow autonomy to your team
Important strengths
- Self-confidence
- Capable of promoting her/his team’s personal growth