Vice President, Corporate Legal

The opportunity
Unity is looking for a Vice President, Corporate and Securities to join its Legal team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the team responsible for advising on a broad range of general corporate and securities law issues in support of Unity’s corporate governance, strategic transactions and obligations as a public company. You will work cross-functionally with Unity’s legal, accounting, tax, treasury, investor relations, marketing and human resources teams and interact with all levels of the business. This role reports to the Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer of Unity, and will be located in our San Francisco or New York Office.

What you'll be doing

• This role will advise in connection with a range of matters, including corporate governance, corporate secretary support, strategic transactions, capital markets transactions, executive compensation, stock administration, and public company reporting and compliance, including:
• Lead Unity’s public company compliance obligations including preparing SEC disclosure documents, including periodic and current reports, and proxy statements.
• Provide securities law advice and compliance guidance for earnings releases, investor materials,management presentations and other communications
• Partner with the CFO organization, including Accounting, Finance, Investor Relations, Tax and Internal Audit as well as the CPO organization, including Total and Executive Compensation.
• Refine processes and procedures to ensure compliance for Unity as a public company.
• Manage affiliate trading matters, including Section 16 reporting and 10b5-1 plans.
• Providing legal support to Board of Directors and Board Committees, which includes advising on substantive legal matters; developing meeting agendas, and preparing materials for Board/Committee meetings.
• Act as Assistant Corporate Secretary for the Company.
• Advise on corporate governance matters and updating corporate policies.
• Provide legal support for Unity’s global equity program, including managing securities law requirements, drafting equity plan documents and advising on structuring elements of our equity programs and executive compensation matters.
• Manage the company’s stock administration function.
• Advise on legal aspects of corporate activities such as securities offerings, treasury activities and intercompany agreements.
• Subsidiary management.
• Oversee management of securities litigation.
• Advise on structuring and documentation on M&A or investment transactions, as applicable.
• Manage the corporate securities and equity operations team.
• Efficiently manage outside counsel on a global basis and within budget.

What we're looking for

• JD from an accredited law school.
• 12+ years of experience at a top law firm or corporate law department with a national or international presence, specifically in corporate, securities or capital markets experience.
• Knowledge of public company financial reporting rules and regulations relevant to securities law. 
• Ability to work directly with internal clients of every level of the organization.
• Excellent judgment, communication (verbal and written), organizational and interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively across multiple groups and functions.
• Desire to think creatively and strategically to solve problems. 
• Ability to work independently and take initiative to get things done.
• Practical, business-focused mindset and willingness to dig into issues.
• Curious, with a sense of humor.

You might also have

• Prior in-house experience working with advertising, enterprise software, Internet or high-tech companies

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity
Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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