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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Diligent Corporation Full timeAbout UsDiligent is a global leader in modern governance, providing innovative SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit, and ESG. Our mission is to empower leaders with the technology, insights, and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability.Position OverviewWe are seeking an experienced Assistant General Counsel to...
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About Us
Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG.
Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization's GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster.
No matter the challenge.At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change.
You are joining a team of passionate, smart, creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.
Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.Position Overview:
Diligent is seeking an Assistant General Counsel, Commercial and Product to lead our Legal team in Asia Pacific. It is an incredibly exciting time to join a dynamic and agile organisation in a fast-paced, growth phase.
This position will be responsible for leading and managing our Asia Pacific legal team, supporting our commercial and product initiatives, and providing strategic partnership and legal expertise to senior stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner closely with our sales, customer success, partnerships, product, engineering, marketing, security, finance and other business teams including members of our senior leadership team on commercial, product and data protectionrelated matters. This Assistant General Counsel will be able to emphasize the importance of highquality crossborder contracts and privacy adherence while delivering practical and businessminded advice that understands our business needs and Diligent's interests.
- Advise product and engineering teams on issues related to the development and rollout of new products and features for our governance, risk, and compliance platform throughout the entire product development lifecycle.
- Identify legal issues in product development plans and customer agreements, and work with the appropriate teams to create solutions and minimize risk;
- Manage the drafting, negotiating and maintenance of various commercial and technologyrelated agreements, including sales, vendors, partnerships and data processing agreements.
- Draft, negotiate and review commercial contracts and negotiate with customers, vendors and partners.
- Work with internal clients to advise on negotiation strategy and ensure the contemplated legal terms will meet business needs over the long term.
- Work with the commercial teams and establish relationships with stakeholder departments including Sales, customer success, marketing, finance, product, engineering, and security.
- Contribute to risk assessment/mitigation, develop new approaches to legal issues to support our business goals, and communicate sound, understandable legal and business recommendations to the team members you support.
- Lead and contribute to strategic initiatives, legal and privacy projects.
Required Experience/Skills
- 810 years in post qualification experience.
- Substantial commercial legal experience at a top law firm and inhouse at a SaaS company.
- Experience in managing staff and leading a team, with a proven ability to develop legal strategy, define objectives, and make businesscritical decisions.
- Expertise in drafting and negotiating a wide variety of commercial agreements typical to the technology sector.
- Ability to work with sales, finance, marketing, security, product, and IT teams collaboratively in a growing organization.
- Excellent communication skills
- Expertise in managing external counsel effectively and in a costconscious manner.
- Ability to work in a highvolume, fastpaced environment while remaining analytical and detailoriented.
- Strong internal and external client service orientation, with high emotional intelligence and the ability to perform well under pressure.
- Practical experience in SaaS contracting and an advanced knowledge of commercial, contract and privacy law.
- Experience with government contracting in Australia, New Zealand and/or Asia Pacific is a positive.
What Diligent Offers You
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Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
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We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
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We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
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Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facili
