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🚀WhyThisRoleRocks

Reporting to our Chief Legal Officer, you’ll tackle the full legal spectrum: negotiating high-value sales deals, crafting bespoke contracts, steering legal ops, and partnering with leaders across the business. You’ll manage and mentor our Australian-based Legal Counsel and collaborate daily with the NAM based Legal Director, as well as the broader Legal & Compliance Team, to support the Chief Legal Officer to manage Megaport’s global legal affairs. Ready to drive impact at cloud-speed? Let’s go!

🌏AboutMegaport

Megaport rewired how IT connects. As a pioneer of

Network as a Service (NaaS), we help companies tap into the cloud—fast. We’re an ASX-listed scale-up, trusted by Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, NYSE, and other tech giants. With 250+ talented teammates spread across North America, Europe, and APAC (HQ in Brisbane), we stay lean, move quickly, and keep things fun.

🧬OurVibe

Customer-first

always

Integrity > everything

Small teams, huge outcomes

We celebrate curiosity, collaboration, and a can-do attitude

Success gets loud cheers—see our “Legend” & “Kudos” awards 🏆

If you thrive in a fast, globally distributed environment (and appreciate a good meme), you’ll feel right at home.

🎯 What You’ll Be Owning

  • Strategic Counsel – You’ll have shared responsibility for co-managing Megaport’s legal engine room, supporting the team to keep on top of the BAU legal work as a player coach. You’ll deliver crisp, commercial advice on a variety of areas to support Megaport’s daily business activities, including sales agreements, procurement, regulatory and legal compliance matters.
  • Deal Ninja – Review, draft, and negotiate everything from enterprise MSAs to referral and commission agreements.
  • Team Leadership – Mentor and motivate our Australian based Legal Counsel; foster tight collaboration with Legal & Compliance teammates.
  • Dispute Solver – Guide resolutions quickly and pragmatically when issues pop up.
  • Legal Ops Champion – Optimise workflows, elevate Ironclad, and embed scalable processes.
  • Reg Watch – Track regulatory shifts; translate risk into clear business action.
  • Special Projects – Support the Chief Legal Officer with special projects — never dull, always meaningful.

    • 🧠 What You Bring

  • Minimum 7–10 yrs post-admission (with solid in-house experience)
  • LLB (or equivalent) and current unrestricted QLD practising certificate
  • 2–3 years of proven experience in managing, mentoring, and growing a team, with the ability to foster collaboration and drive performance.
  • Experience supporting remote or distributed teams is a strong plus.
  • Tech/IT industry exposure required (bonus points for cloud or telecoms)
  • Elite contract drafting & negotiation skills.
  • Commercial mindset—practical, risk-balanced solutions are your superpower.
  • Calm multitasker across time-zones & shifting priorities.
  • Stellar communicator and natural relationship builder.
  • High integrity, high accountability, high energy.

    • 💥 Why You’ll Love It Here

  • Flexible work (remote-friendly & balanced schedules)
  • Birthday leave—celebrate yourself 🎉
  • Cool, creative office spaces (when you want ‘em)
  • Health & wellness program
  • Global team of experts who love what they do
  • Recognition programs that actually mean something

    • Additional Information

    #LI-DNI

    If you have any questions, please reach out to Megaport's Talent Acquisition Team at Careers@megaport.com

    NOTE:All Megaport business correspondence is conducted via our business email accounts (@megaport.com). If you have any concerns, please reach out to Megaport's careers team careers@megaport.com directly and we will verify the legitimacy of any communication. Megaport will not ask you to create an account via Microsoft teams, and does not associate with any email accounts under "@megaportau.com".

    All applications will be treated in confidence.

    Please see Part 2 of our Privacy Policy to see what information Megaport collects from job applicants, why, and how we store and use it. Note that you’re entitled to know what personal data of yours Megaport holds, to request updates, rectification, and in some circumstances restriction or deletion thereof if you object (you being entitled to withdraw your consent to our holding your information at any time). Please see Part 5 of our Privacy Policy for more details on this and how to contact Megaport's data protection officer if you have any further privacy-related questions. Candidates who meet the selection criteria will be invited to attend an interview. Strictly no Recruitment Agencies.

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