Job Details

Legal Counsel

Rackspace Technology

Rackspace is looking for a talented Legal Counsel to provide legal leadership and sales support to the APJ region, particularly in ANZ. The role is primarily focused on providing commercial contracts support to the sales teams in ANZ and will work closely with the local business leaders as lead counsel in Australia to help them achieve their projected sales growth. The successful candidate will report to the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, International (based in the UK) and will join a team of solution-orientated, collaborative lawyers based in UK, Germany and India. The International Legal team is responsible for managing all EMEA and APJ commercial matters for the global business.
Rackspace as a leading technology company supports flexible working practices for the benefit of its employees.

Key Accountabilities

• Acting as a Legal business partner for our APJ commercial transactions, with a strong focus on sales.
• Structuring, negotiating and drafting sales, partner and vendor contracts and related agreements which ranges from standard contracts to bespoke, complex and outsourcing transactions.
• Advising senior executives and other business team members on data protection and other contract specific issues and risks relating to cloud computing, their impact and mitigating actions.
• Reviewing and approving commercial contracts for International Legal in accordance with our standard policies and procedures, escalating non-standard matters to the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel.
• Partnering with our International Legal team and US Legal team to ensure we have a consistent global approach in the way we work with our sales teams.
• Assisting our US Legal corporate services team in dealing with non-commercial transactional matters, for example data privacy and regulatory matters.
• Leading process improvement projects for APJ Legal and working with our business stakeholders (e.g. Customer Service, Finance etc) to deliver superior contract outcomes.

Person Specifications

• Admitted to the solicitors role in Australia and with approximately 3 years post qualified experience
• Background in general IT law.
• Previous in-house legal experience working with sales teams in a global technology company.
• A good understanding of cross jurisdictional issues that may arise when negotiating global agreements with multinational companies.
• Broad transactional background, including extensive general commercial contracting on sales contracts, intellectual property, data privacy and other regulatory matters.
• Excellent negotiation and drafting skills.
• Ability to build strong relationships with internal client and legal stakeholders and act as a business enabler.
• Confident in advising senior management on legal, risk and strategic issues with a willingness to challenge when required.
• Willing to accommodate out of hours work when required to support the legal teams in International and the US. Flexible working is available.
• Ability to simplify, problem solve, multitask and work effectively against deadlines.
• Ability to work autonomously with independent thinking, as lead lawyer in Australia.
• Excellent commercial and strategic business judgment.

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About Rackspace TechnologyWe are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world's leading technologies - across applications, data and security - to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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