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Equinix
5,001 – 10,000 Employees
H1B Visa SponsorConsultingLogisticsManufacturing
Equinix provides digital infrastructure that helps organizations connect people, platforms, and services across global ecosystems. Its offerings include data centers, colocation, interconnection, ecosystem discovery, and digital services designed to support secure, high-performance connectivity for multicloud environments. By combining low-latency networks, high bandwidth, automation, and infrastructure designed with sustainability in mind, Equinix supports digital transformation for companies in sectors including financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, and commercial markets.
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Senior Director of Legal, Commercial Transactions

Senior legal leader overseeing commercial contracts and strategic transactions across the Americas. Leads legal teams and advises executives on high-value deals and technology partnerships.

USUnited StatesTXTexas
$230,000 – $344,000 / year
HybridFull-timeSeniorEnglish RequiredGeneral Counsel

Description

  • Direct Global Contracts’ presence and engagement across the Americas
  • Represent Global Contracts in senior business forums and build relationships with Sales, Finance, Operations, Product and Technology
  • Turn regional priorities and risks into legal support plans
  • Provide senior escalation support for significant regional and strategic matters
  • Coordinate Americas-based Global Contracts colleagues and engage external counsel as needed
  • Lead the Strategics team and provide legal support for its portfolio of globally significant named accounts
  • Oversee account strategy, pipeline, risk, resourcing, escalations and delivery throughout the deal lifecycle
  • Support Channel go-to-market efforts and collaborate with Global Contracts and One Legal leaders
  • Lead or oversee complex, strategic, high-value transactions and negotiations
  • Present recommendations to executives and bring matters to resolution
  • Turn transaction experience into reusable legal positions, templates and training
  • Lead, coach and develop lawyers and contracts professionals
  • Manage performance, give feedback, support succession planning and prepare future leaders
  • Help shape Global Contracts’ strategy, operating model, talent, culture and resourcing
  • Support global policy, process, technology and transformation initiatives
  • Promote AI and other technology tools to improve service delivery, reporting and decision-making
  • Advance standardisation and platform adoption, using data to monitor workload, risk and performance
  • Apply risk frameworks, policies and escalation procedures
  • Oversee work allocation, resourcing, budget and external counsel use
  • Build collaboration with shared-services teams and promote operational excellence
  • Report to the Vice President, Legal, Global Contracts

Requirements

  • Law degree and admission to practise in a relevant jurisdiction, such as a US state
  • Substantial post-qualification legal experience suited to a Senior Director role
  • At least 15 years of experience in a comparable role is preferred
  • At least five years of law-firm experience is preferred
  • Extensive experience negotiating commercial contracts and complex, strategic, high-value, high-impact transactions
  • Proven ability to lead, manage, coach and develop lawyers and contracts professionals
  • Experience expanding a team’s capabilities, structure, operating model or strategic direction
  • Experience advising senior business leaders in an international, fast-paced, commercially demanding environment
  • Experience in a matrix organisation across functions, reporting lines, geographies and time zones
  • Strong commercial and legal judgment
  • Executive presence and the ability to advise, challenge and influence senior leaders
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Strong emotional intelligence, interpersonal awareness and cultural sensitivity
  • Strong organisation, attention to detail and prioritisation skills
  • Pragmatic, adaptable, proactive and solution-oriented working style
  • Experience with Channel arrangements, partnerships, indirect go-to-market models or similar commercial ecosystems
  • Strong interest in emerging technology markets, especially data centres, AI, Neocloud infrastructure, SaaS or related sectors
  • Strong understanding of technology, data, process and knowledge management in scaling legal organisations
  • Willingness and ability to work flexibly across global time zones
  • Leadership approach aligned with Equinix and One Legal culture and values

Benefits

  • Employee assistance program
  • US health, life, disability and voluntary insurance plans
  • US retirement plan contributions
  • Accrued paid time off and paid holidays in the US
  • Canadian healthcare coverage, life and disability insurance, and optional benefit plans
  • Canadian defined contribution pension plan, group RRSP and tax-free savings plan
  • Vacation, personal time and paid holidays in Canada
  • Eligibility for a bonus
  • Potential equity offering, depending on the position
  • Disability accommodations during the hiring process

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