Director and Assistant General Counsel - Singapur, Singapore - Databricks

    Databricks
    Databricks Singapur, Singapore

    3 weeks ago

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  • Director and Assistant General Counsel - Commercial Singapore

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    About the Team

    The mission of the legal department at Databricks is to help scale the business overall while ensuring governance and compliance, contributing to customer and corporate security, and corporate risk management and mitigation.

    Outcomes

    The most dynamic sector in which to build your legal career right now is the global, data-driven, cloud-based provision of artificial intelligence, data analytics, and machine learning services.

    Databricks seeks a Director and Assistant General Counsel to lead its APJ legal team. You will join our growing global, commercial legal team, supporting our business activities in the region. You will be working on diverse matters including reviewing and negotiating customer and business contracts, channel agreements, and other commercial projects, all providing legal support for Databricks' revenue-generating activities. Reporting to our Global VP Commercial Legal, your responsibilities will include supporting our APJ sales team, managing junior legal team members, overseeing commercial contracts, and supporting and resolving issues relating to security, data, and privacy.

    Responsibilities:

  • Establish yourself as a leader of our APJ commercial legal team
  • Manage and hire to requirements, consolidate and build a successful team
  • Support individual professional development, manage daily legal activities, and deliver operational efficiencies
  • Show proven ability to handle high deal volumes with a focus on accelerating and streamlining the negotiation cycle
  • Negotiate complex, non-standard agreements and serve as a point of escalation
  • Act as a Legal business partner to Sales leadership, providing general legal advice on forecasting, deal process, and contract management
  • Understand product, data security, and privacy process issues to direct Sales leadership during negotiations
  • Be a subject matter expert in a related function (, privacy, public sector, or procurement)
  • Influence and proactively work with Sales partners to deliver training and objection handling strategies to close deals faster
  • Assist with standardization of documentation across multiple jurisdictions
  • Quickly assimilate Databricks' internal structures, product offerings, technology, security/data protection systems, policies, and standard commercial contracts to enable effective support across all lines of business
  • Competencies

    Qualifications & Experience

  • Relevant tech sector legal experience focused on commercial transactions including complex cloud contracts, with a minimum of 10 years experience including significant experience in-house (preferably at a high-growth technology company)
  • Strong understanding of cloud services, software technology and professional services contracts
  • Strong knowledge of intellectual property, data privacy, and contract law
  • Substantial experience drafting and negotiating complex transactions involving security, privacy and IP issues
  • Solid experience of business process gained in-house relating to commercial, contract, intellectual property and data privacy law across multiple APJ jurisdictions
  • Ability to prioritize, manage time, and client expectations in the face of competing demands
  • Current state bar membership or equivalent professional qualification
  • Strong leadership ability with proven success leading, mentoring, and guiding junior legal team members
  • Experience supporting channel partners and local language abilities are beneficial but not required
  • Benefits:

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Equity awards
  • Flexible time off
  • Paid parental leave
  • Family Planning
  • Gym reimbursement
  • Annual personal development fund
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)