[Hiring] Senior Legal Counsel @Megaport

Role Description

We’re looking for a senior technology lawyer to join Megaport's global Legal team, with a particular focus on supporting complex commercial arrangements and high-priority initiatives, with a focus on our high-growth compute division.

• Support complex and strategic transactions for data centre procurement and customer agreements, moving quickly through negotiation to execution.
• Partner directly with the Chief Legal Officer, executive leadership and other senior stakeholders on high-priority legal matters, primarily focused on supporting our compute division.
• Advise on the legal and commercial structure of strategic partnerships involving cloud, networking, data centres, infrastructure, compute, storage, software and other technology services.
• Lead negotiations with sophisticated counterparties, including global technology companies, cloud providers, infrastructure providers, strategic partners, major enterprise customers and suppliers.
• Advise on technology, data, privacy, intellectual property, cybersecurity and regulatory issues arising from strategic transactions.
• Support the CLO, and work closely with legal team leaders, on special projects and strategic initiatives, including matters that may be commercially sensitive, confidential or require a high degree of judgement.
• Act as a trusted senior member of the Legal team and sounding board for colleagues dealing with complex commercial issues.
• Provide support to the broader global legal team during busy periods.
• Look for opportunities to simplify how we work, improve our contracting approach and make it easier for the business to execute without compromising on the things that matter.

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualification experience as a lawyer (between 7-10 years), ideally including a large part of this experience working in-house in a technology, data centre, cloud, telecommunications, infrastructure or SaaS environment.
• Admission and good standing in at least one US jurisdiction.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, high-value or strategically important commercial transactions with sophisticated counterparties.
• Strong technology transactions experience, comfortable getting into the detail of technology and infrastructure arrangements.
• Experience working directly with C-suite executives and senior business leaders.
• Exceptional commercial judgement, understanding the business’ risk appetite.
• Excellent negotiation skills and the ability to hold your own across the table from experienced legal, commercial and executive teams.
• Excellent drafting skills, particularly for bespoke transactions.
• A strong bias toward plain English, practical and commercial advice and solutions.
• The ability to take an ambiguous problem, work out what needs to happen and drive it through to an outcome with a high degree of independence.
• Intellectual curiosity and an interest in technology.
• Strong stakeholder instincts, able to build credibility quickly.
• The ability to manage several significant matters simultaneously across different jurisdictions and time zones.
• High levels of integrity, discretion and professional judgement.

Requirements

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, Network as a Service, telecommunications, data centres, AI infrastructure or adjacent technology sectors.
• Experience negotiating with hyperscalers or other major global technology companies.
• Experience with strategic alliances, joint go-to-market arrangements, capacity or infrastructure agreements, complex procurement arrangements or new product launches.
• Exposure to corporate transactions, investments, acquisitions or other strategic corporate projects.
• Experience working in a fast-growing, global or publicly listed technology company.

Benefits

• Flexible working environment – a remote-first culture with coworking options available.
• Generous leave plans – including 4 weeks of paid annual leave, parental leave, birthday leave, and a purchased annual leave program.
• Health and wellness support – through a wellness allowance and employee wellbeing initiatives.
• Comprehensive learning support – generous study and training allowance plus 5 days of paid study leave.
• Creative, modern workspaces – designed to inspire when you're not working remotely.
• Motivated, inclusive team – work alongside industry experts and fresh talent.
• Recognition programs – celebrate achievements with our Legend and Kudos awards.
• $180,000 - $230,000 a year.