General Counsel

Job Title: General Counsel
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
Employment Type: Full-Time

About Solen Software Group: Solen Software Group is an an investment and operating company that acquires and operates proven software businesses that have significant growth potential in a variety of vertical markets, enabling them to be market leaders in their niche industry. Solen owns several software companies in various market spaces: Human Resource Technology, Fleet Telematics, Asset Management, E-Health, Document Management, and other innovative software solutions in a variety of industries. Solen is backed by a group of advisors and investors that have built software businesses of material scale (10-100M in ARR) and advised many.

About the role: Solen Software Group is seeking an experienced, strategic, and adaptable General Counsel to oversee the company's legal affairs. The General Counsel will provide critical legal advice to the leadership team, manage legal risks, and ensure compliance across the organization. This role will involve a wide range of legal responsibilities, including corporate governance, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property matters, within the context of software investment and operations.

The successful candidate will work from Solen's headquarters in Utah.

Key Responsibilities:

• Legal Leadership: Provide expert legal counsel to senior leadership and the Board of Directors on all major business decisions, strategic initiatives, and operational matters.
• Transaction Management: Lead legal aspects of acquisitions, investments, and partnerships, ensuring alignment with Solen's mission of long-term value creation.
• Corporate Governance & Compliance: Oversee governance matters, including securities law compliance, and manage internal policies to ensure regulatory adherence.
• Risk Management: Identify and manage legal risks, from commercial contracts to intellectual property, ensuring mitigation strategies are in place.
• Contract Negotiations: Lead and manage negotiations of complex contracts, including vendor, partnership, and SaaS agreements.
• Intellectual Property: Develop and enforce strategies to protect and leverage the company's intellectual property portfolio.
• Dispute Resolution: Oversee and manage any legal disputes, ensuring a proactive approach to resolving conflicts in the best interest of the company.
• Team Leadership: Manage and develop a legal team while collaborating with external counsel to ensure effective legal support across the organization.
• Ongoing Operations: support Operating Companies across multiple portfolios including contract negotiations, compliance monitoring, vendor management, implement insurance policies, and general legal aspects of business risk management.
• Legal Frameworks: design legal frameworks including legal playbooks, templates, policies, compensation structures, that empower teams and accelerate them as opposed to slowing them down.

Key requirements :

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school and active bar membership.
• 10+ years of legal experience, particularly within software, technology, or investment industries.
• Experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, intellectual property, and commercial contract law.
• Proven track record in working with investment firms or technology companies, with a deep understanding of SaaS and software business models.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to drive legal strategy while working collaboratively with senior management.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills with a pragmatic approach to legal challenges.

What will set you apart:

• Business Mindset: Act not just as a legal gatekeeper, but a proactive, commercially-savvy leader who sees the big picture, enables Solen's growth, and acts as a strategic partner to the executive team.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: Thrives in entrepreneurial environments, has a deep understanding of software and/or M&A-heavy businesses, and brings a strong sense of judgment, pragmatism, and curiosity.
• Versatility and Problem Solving:
  • You don't say "no" - you say "here's how we do it right".
  • You think in terms of risk-weighted decisions, not legal theory.
  • You understand how contracts, IP, compliance, and governance impact Operating Companies' performance: EBITDA, growth, and valuation.
  • You're as comfortable in a boardroom as in a data room.
  • You balance fast execution with long-term defensibility.
  • You bring clear, business-first communication to legal topics with non-legal audiences.

Why Join Solen Software Group?

• Be part of a dynamic, growth-oriented company with a focus on long-term success.
• Opportunity to influence strategic decision-making and drive legal excellence in a fast-paced environment.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.