At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide legal advice on contracts, privacy, and compliance in a growing tech firm.
- Company: Dynamic scaling tech firm focused on financial crime prevention.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible hybrid work, and real ownership of your projects.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with direct access to decision makers and growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a meaningful impact while shaping the future of legal operations.
- Qualifications: 3-7 years PQE in commercial law and strong tech skills required.
- In-house Legal Counsel role covering commercial contracts, privacy & data protection
- Broad exposure across the business, with real ownership and direct access to decision makers
- Sydney based, 2 day hybrid. Full time, permanent role. Up to $210k Package
- Role
This is an in-house opportunity to join a growing legal team in the financial crime prevention space.
Working closely with the General Counsel and Senior Legal Counsel, you'll provide practical, timely advice across commercial contracts and broad business matters, partnering with teams across the business to keep work moving while managing legal risk.
Privacy, data protection and regulatory compliance also form part of the remit.
This role suits a detail-oriented, tech-literate commercial lawyer with sound judgment and a solutions-first mindset who wants to build their in-house career.
Skills & Experience
- 3–7 years PQE in commercial and contract law, gained in-house, in private practice or both. Admitted in NSW with a current practising certificate.
- Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts, including Saa S, technology, service, licensing and confidentiality agreements.
- Partner with commercial, product, marketing and data insights teams, providing clear and practical advice to non-legal stakeholders.
- Help resolve contract disputes by interpreting rights and obligations and recommending a practical path forward.
- Improve standard form agreements, templates and contracting workflows, and help select and implement legal tech and AI tools.
- Manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision, using sound judgment and knowing when to escalation.
- Advise on privacy and data protection, including the Australian and New Zealand Privacy Acts, and related information security issues.
- Manage privacy requests and support compliance and governance matters.
- Support regulated customer engagements, aligning contracts with requirements such as APRA CPS 234, PCI-DSS, SOC 2 and relevant industry codes.
- Experience in telecommunications, financial services, digital assets or insurance, or with telco anti-scam regulation, is highly regarded.
Benefits
- Meaningful work that directly supports the fight against financial crime.
- Real ownership over your deliverables, with influence on business strategy.
- The autonomy to make decisions and shape practical solutions.
- Strong commercial exposure through regular work with key stakeholders and business functions.
- Direct access to decision makers in a small, growing company.
- Variety and impact across the entire business.
- Room to progress as the business grows.
- Hands-on involvement in building legal operations maturity and choosing the right tools.
- Flexible 2 day hybrid working and a culture that respects boundaries.
- Smart, approachable, non-hierarchical colleagues.
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