Senior Legal Counsel
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Position Title: Sr. Legal Counsel
Location: Dallas TX
Your role As a Senior Legal Counsel youll be a critical member of our legal team supporting strategic global and hyperscale customer transactions. Working alongside senior attorneys and crossfunctional business teams youll help draft negotiate and advise on complex agreements for data center space and ancillary services. This is a fastpaced highimpact role where legal skill meets business acumen ideal for a proactive businesssavvy attorney who thrives in collaborative dynamic environments.
What Youll Do
- Draft review and negotiate a wide range of customerfacing agreements including:
- Master Service Agreements for global and hyperscale customers
- Leases licenses service agreements and occupancy contracts for colocation and data center environments
- Ancillary service documents like remote hands fitouts and connectivity orders
- Advise sales portfolio management and operations teams on legal and strategic matters
- Analyze and mitigate risk in complex multijurisdictional commercial deals
- Support the daytoday needs of portfolio and property operations teams including audits tenant issues and project support
- Drive continuous improvement of legal templates playbooks and policies
- Assist in developing streamlined scalable negotiation processes to accelerate deal execution
- Manage external counsel with a focus on efficiency and alignment to business priorities
- Collaborate globally across legal and business units to support enterprisewide legal initiatives
What Youll Need
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an ABAaccredited law school and admission to at least one state bar (eligible for inhouse counsel registration if needed)
- Minimum 5 years of relevant legal experience in a law firm and/or inhouse legal department
- Experience negotiating commercial real estate leases or technologyrelated service agreements (data center agreements strongly preferred)
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance legal risk and business objectives
- Exceptional drafting negotiation and communication skills
- Comfortable handling multiple complex projects under pressure in a fastpaced global business
- Professional presence with the ability to build rapport across departments and cultures
- Detailoriented solutiondriven and committed to delivering highquality legal service
- A team player with initiative good judgment and a sense of humor we value people who take their work seriously but not themselves
- Willingness to travel occasionally and engage with international stakeholders
A bit about us
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL the companys global data center platform provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty please visit follow us on LinkedInand Twitter.
What we can offer you
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and youll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team youll get to work with people from different business areas challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. Well also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package excellent benefits and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the companys overall goals and values.
This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.
Notes:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled. All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age national origin disability or protected veteran status or other status protected by law or Company policy.
Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.
Please do not forward unsolicited resumes to any employee of Digital Realty and its subsidiaries. Digital Realty is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited referrals.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
