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About the role
- Senior Legal Counsel providing legal support in technology and product environments at SiteMinder. Partnering with Tech, Product Data/AI & Security functions for legal and regulatory risk management.
Responsibilities
- Provide commercially focused and pragmatic advice to our business clients on a wide range technology related matters and initiatives in a supportive and dynamic team environment.
- Support revenue growth by drafting, advising and negotiating commercial and technology agreements, ensuring that contractual terms align with Siteminder’s commercial objectives and compliance requirements.
- Contribute to the development and negotiation of strategic alliances, collab
- Support the implementation of governance frameworks and policies that manage legal and operational risk in a technology and product -enabled environment, including data and AI governance frameworks.
- Experience advising on cybersecurity preparedness, incident response, data protection, privacy, spam, surveillance, and regulatory investigations.
- Provide product, engineering, technology, security, data and AI and other business teams, partnering from the earliest possible discussions, to provide pragmatic legal advice across many subject areas including data protection laws and regulations, international competition law frameworks, intellectual property laws, marketing laws and regulations, and other global legal frameworks. You are a generalist with sufficient genuine depth in these key areas that typically requires specialists.
- Able to read architecture diagrams, understand data flows, ask meaningful questions about system design, and recognize when engineering decisions have legal implications. You can spot issues that need to be flagged.
- Able to operate in grey zones where legal questions don’t have clear answers, providing risk calibrated guidance to help the business move forward.
- The opportunity to grow as a lawyer by developing a deep understanding of technology, product, security data/AI and innovation. You will partner deeply with technology, data and security teams to work at the intersection of law, business and emerging technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Laws (or equivalent) and a current practicing certificate.
- At least ten years experience, ideally from top-tier practice experience and in-house tech or data sector experience
- Extensive experience advising on data governance and commercialisation, IT and commercial transactions, with at least four years of experience on cyber law, and demonstrable knowledge of AI
- Strong understanding of GDPR, Australian privacy law and global governance and AI regulatory frameworks
- Exposure to technology payment services is desirable
- Must be a self starter with high energy and a proven ability to roll up your sleeves to get things done. You thrive on taking initiative.
- You are a team player with a humble attitude and a hunger to make an impact in a role where the sky's the limit
- You have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills and the ability to interact with all levels of the organization from the most senior to most junior
- You are passionate about technology, data, and SaaS businesses with a passion for innovation and emerging digital technology
- Comfortable hitting the ground running in fast paced scale-up environments. Bonus points if you have had experience in global scale-ups
Benefits
- Equity packages for you to be a part of the SiteMinder journey
- Mental health and well-being initiatives
- Generous parental (including secondary) leave policy
- Paid birthday, study and volunteering leave every year
- Sponsored social clubs, team events, and celebrations
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG) to help you connect and get involved
- Investment in your personal growth offering training for your advancement
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