About This Role
This Corporate Counsel role involves providing practical, business-focused legal support to Meltwater's APAC legal team, with a focus on SaaS contracting, media monitoring, technology transactions, privacy, and general commercial matters. The role is for a commercially minded legal professional passionate about technology and capable of managing evolving legal issues, including AI.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review and negotiate SaaS agreements, master services agreements, order forms, statements of work, data processing agreements, NDAs and other commercial contracts
- Advise on customer, vendor, partner and technology transactions
- Support sales and procurement teams throughout the contracting process, including reviewing deviations from standard terms and proposing appropriate solutions
- Advise on privacy, data protection, confidentiality, information security and use of customer data
- Support the business with contract interpretation, implementation questions, disputes and other day-to-day commercial matters
- Assist with legal issues relating to product development, content, intellectual property, artificial intelligence and digital services, as relevant
- Monitor relevant legal and regulatory developments affecting SaaS, media monitoring, content licensing, privacy, data protection, artificial intelligence and digital services
- Work with internal stakeholders to improve legal processes, templates, playbooks and contract-management practices
- Coordinate with external counsel where specialist advice is required
- Contribute to legal and compliance projects across the Australian and wider Asia-Pacific business
- Help promote a practical, risk-aware and commercially effective approach to legal support
Requirements
- Juris Doctor Degree (or equivalent) from an accredited law school
- Active license to practice law
- 5+ years of post-qualification legal experience, with some in-house experience (preferably technology, SaaS, media monitoring and/or intelligence, publishing, data, or other digital-services business experience)
- Excellent negotiation, legal drafting, and communication skills
- Demonstrated experience advising on SaaS contracting issues, including intellectual property, data use, privacy, security, liability, indemnities and termination rights
- Familiarity with media monitoring, content licensing, data licensing or similar content- or rights-based commercial issues
- Demonstrated ability to monitor regulatory and local law developments, identify their practical implications for the business and translate them into clear, actionable guidance
- Ability to work effectively, independently and support the sales team and other internal stakeholders, exercising sound judgement that incorporates strong legal analysis, a pragmatic approach, and consideration of business goals, risk tolerance, and stakeholder priorities
