Senior Legal Director Global Accounts
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Job Location:
Dallas, IA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
6 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position Title:Sr. Legal Director Commercial Contracting (Global Accounts / Hyperscale)
Location: Dallas TX
Your Role
This senior leadership role sits within Digital Realtys global Legal Risk Sustainability & Compliance (LRSC) organization and leads the North America Legal Commercial function supporting Global Accounts and Hyperscale customers. As the primary legal advisor to the Global Accounts Sales team you will guide complex commercial transactionsincluding largescale data center leases MSAs SLAs and multijurisdictional agreementswhile partnering closely with Hyperscale Development & Leasing on major leasing initiatives across joint ventures and investment fund assets. This position requires a proactive businessoriented legal leader who brings strong judgment commercial acumen and the ability to operate in a fastpaced global environment.
What Youll Do
Draft negotiate and advise on complex multijurisdictional data center agreements including MSAs colocation agreements leases license agreements and service agreements.
Lead legal support for hyperscale leasing transactions including negotiations involving joint venture and fund assets.
Serve as the senior legal advisor to the Global Accounts Sales team on highvalue commercial transactions.
Partner with Design Engineering & Construction Portfolio Management and Sales to align contractual terms with project delivery customer requirements and operational readiness while mitigating risk.
Advise internal stakeholders on negotiation strategy customer positioning and risk alignment with Digital Realtys commercial objectives.
Provide legal insight on expansions renewals capital improvements and portfolio initiatives that enhance customer and asset value.
Support portfolio management and property operations on customer issues audits escalations and major projects.
Support executivelevel engagement with customers investors and joint venture partners.
Lead develop and mentor the North America Legal Commercial team for Global Accounts & Hyperscale customers.
Drive continuous improvement of templates playbooks and legal processes to increase efficiency and accelerate deal execution.
What Youll Need
Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited U.S. law school; admitted in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and in good standing.
1520 years of commercial legal experience (law firm and/or inhouse).
Extensive experience negotiating complex commercial agreements including data center leases MSAs license agreements and technologyrelated service agreements.
Direct experience negotiating with hyperscale/cloud providers; background in technology cloud services or data centers strongly preferred.
Strong commercial judgment with the ability to align legal guidance to business objectives.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and professionalism in crossfunctional interactions.
Highly proactive handson and solutionoriented approach.
Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage deadlines prioritize competing demands and maintain accuracy.
Demonstrated analytical problemsolving and criticalthinking capabilities.
Proven leadership experience managing motivating and developing legal professionals; ability to operate effectively in a global environment with some travel required.
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 or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
A bit about our team
Legal
Our Legal team works in a highly complex global business sector with a diverse range of local regional and international organizations. From ensuring compliance in different jurisdictions to supporting business teams with customer and supplier contracts were involved in a variety of projects. Working in a dynamic commercial environment we collaborate with colleagues across different departments and always have a new challenge waiting for us.
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.
Apply today take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isnt just a priority here at Digital; its critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives protecting assets and securing data arent just ideals - theyre essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
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.
Benefits: For this role Benefits include medical dental vision life and AD&D insurance 401k match disability benefits wellness and education benefits employee stock purchase plan paid time off holidays and more.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Business Development
- Account Payable
- Economics
- Accounting & Finance
- Account Receiveable
- General Ledger Accounting
- Finance
- Account Management
- Communication
- CRM
- Client Relationships
- Analytical Skills
- Annual Budget
- Business Relationship
- Business unit
About Company
With Digital Realty, you can leverage our full interconnection capabilities across our global ecosystem including data centers, connectivity and cloud services.
