Head of Legal

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Pax8 is growing globally, and we are now expanding across Australia, New Zealand and Asia. We are seeking our founding team members to grow this new region and make a meaningful impact on the business. The majority of our organisation is comprised of early employees who have grown into management and executive positions.

There has never been a better time to join - we're just getting started

**The Role**:
The Head of Legal - APAC will work on a diverse set of matters that straddle business, data privacy, and regulatory compliance. You are collaborative, curious, creative, and a clear communicator (both written and verbal) with expertise in the legal areas we encounter regularly, such as commercial technology transactions, privacy, data protection, intellectual property and employment law. Reporting into the Chief Legal Officer, you will be a key member of our Pax8 Legal team and key advisor to the Pax8 APAC teams on the legal and regulatory elements of the company's global and regional operations.

**How You'll Make Impact**:

- Prepare, review, and advise on contracts, and other transactional documents.
- Manage outside counsel.
- Provide support to M&A activity.
- Answer questions from internal clients and recommend actions.
- Support and provide guidance on regulatory compliance across the APAC region to ensure requirements are met locally.
- Drive your own personal development and performance improvements by participating in learning paths on Elev8, taking part in Pax8 L&D programs, receiving peer or manager coaching, taking on stretch projects or on the job training.

**About You**:

- Qualified lawyer, with at least ten (10) years' post qualification experience.
- You will have gained early legal experience in a recognised law firm.
- You will have worked as part of an in-house legal team (ideally for an international company),or have the drive and aptitude to make the move in-house.
- Well-developed understanding of commercial, contract, and risk management issues (including a good understanding of the compliance issues) facing a global business.
- Substantial experience in Australia, New Zealand, and Asia employment law preferrable.
- Demonstrated knowledge of GDPR, SOC2, ISO and other relevant accreditations.
- Highly organised and detail-oriented with an ability to prioritise and handle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
- Ability to communicate, present and influence all levels of the organisation.

**Benefits**:
At Pax8, we want to support you in work and play. We are driven to provide a market leading benefits program to show how much we value our greatest assets. As we are new to the APAC region, our benefits program will be developed in stages (and we also want your input), currently on offer is:

- 6 weeks annual leave.
- Flexible working hours in a hybrid working environment.
- Central office space for our Brisbane based team for when you want to join in on the action.
- Private Health Insurance including life and disability insurance.
- Rare opportunity to make impact in a new region for a large global tech company.

**About Us**:
Pax8 is the leading value-added cloud-based SaaS distributor, simplifying the cloud journey for our partners by integrating technology, business intelligence and proactive service to deliver an unparalleled experience. Serving thousands of partners through the indirect sales channel, our mission is to be the world's favourite place to buy cloud products.