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Senior Director, Legal - Operations
AirTrunk HQ - North Sydney
Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Japan’s (APJ) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?
AirTrunk is a technology company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering hyperscale data centres that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.
Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APJ region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…
Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.
A Snapshot
As Senior Director, Legal – Operations, you will report to the Vice President, Legal, and work closely with the rest of the Legal team, making your mark in a number of ways:
- Strategic planning and execution: develop and implement strategies to optimise legal team performance to deliver more for the business including through process improvements, new technologies and knowledge management
- Legal operations: develop processes and procedures to support day-to day operations including supporting the legal team to improve records and contract management, approval workflows, record and track legal requests, manage invoices, budgets and external law firms and other consultants
- Precedents and knowledge management: work with the business and legal team leaders to develop, implement and maintain a suite of precedents, playbooks and negotiation guides which meet business needs and allows the business to scale at speed
- Learning & development: develop and implement a learning and development program for the legal team and for the business on legal risks, material contracts and regulatory compliance
- Governance and risk management: work with legal team leaders and business teams to develop and implement strategies to mitigate and manage key legal risks under AirTrunk’s enterprise risk management framework
- Regulatory compliance: work with legal team leaders to develop a regulatory compliance framework to monitor, operationalise and manage compliance with existing and new laws
- Technology: lead the evaluation, selection and integration of legal technologies.
Your Day to Day
- Assess, develop and implement processes and procedures to support matter management, knowledge management, document management and billing management
- Create metrics and monitor progress to measure success against strategic plans
- Identify potential workflow optimisations and develop process workflows between legal team and business partners
- Working with lawyers in the legal team to develop precedents, playbooks, negotiation guides and other initiatives to ensure high quality of legal service
- Build business self-help tools such as dashboards, toolkits, legal training, process flows to improve operational efficiencies
- Working with legal team leaders to develop a learning and development program for legal team and business including identify training opportunities, facilitate education on best practice and help create department specific guidelines and policies
- Develop expertise on legal tech and assessing tools which may include contract management, content and knowledge management, business process enhancement, document execution management
- Create and manage websites and all knowledge management tools and processes
- Partner with legal leadership and finance to develop and manage the legal annual operating plan and budgets
- Manage new hire onboarding processes for the legal department
- Coordinate team meetings by developing agenda with legal leadership, record notes and action items in each meeting, document and follow on actions between meetings
- Provide input and support on global and regional initiatives and projects on an ad hoc basis
- Manage a team of motivated professionals to deliver on legal operations initiatives as a team
- Develop an in-depth knowledge of AirTrunk’s operations, technologies and products/services.
Requirements
- Law degree from an accredited law school and passed the bar/hold a license to practice law
- 10+ years experience (in-house or private practice) in legal operations and/or knowledge management
- Executive management experience, excellent people leadership and team management skills and proven track record of making an impact, developing and executing on strategies and delivering superior results
- Technology savvy: proficient in all Microsoft Office applications, DocuSign and other workflow applications
- Experience with developing multi-jurisdictional policies and experience with legal risk and governance
- In-house experience in a similar industry and experience across APAC would be highly regarded. Candidates from law firms with very strong generalist corporate experience, commercial astuteness and a desire to work closely with the business are encouraged to apply.
The AirTrunk Culture
Working at AirTrunk is a once in a lifetime opportunity to fast-track your career and amplify your impact. Whilst you’re helping scale our region’s digital future, we’ll help you Grow@Hyperscale and unleash your full potential.
The pace in which we operate means you’ll feel an electric atmosphere at AirTrunk. We are a team of challengers and collaborative problem solvers who break new ground every day. We do this by living our values, going above and beyond, and being dynamic, transparent, and responsive.
Every AirTrunker brings their own unique background and diverse perspective to find solutions to problems that matter. We make sure you have everything you need to make your mark and thrive in a flexible and safe working environment, where everyone feels welcome. Our benefits empower AirTrunkers to stay positively charged.
Now’s your chance to Grow@Hyperscale.
**To all recruitment agencies: AirTrunk does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, AirTrunk employees or any other organisation location. AirTrunk is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.**
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