Are you looking to work with an international team to solve problems on a global scale?
Do you want an opportunity to effect change at a leading technology organization?
Join our Global Legal team!
Akamai Legal is a global team of experienced professionals advancing business interests and supporting the company's next phase of growth. The team protects Akamai's assets and reputation while navigating rapid innovation and evolving legal landscapes. Comprising approximately 70 professionals worldwide, the team's role reports to the regional Legal Commercial Lead based in Singapore.
Partner with the best
You will work with our Legal and Sales teams and become a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders across the business.
As a Counsel, you will be responsible for:
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating English commercial contracts and documents with Akamai's global customers and partners, supporting commercial teams worldwide.
- Advising cross-functional teams across Sales, Finance, Tax, Compliance, Information Security, and Product Management on legal risks in commercial sales contracts.
- Ensuring compliance with and consistent application of Akamai's legal and business policies and practices.
- Participating in efforts to enhance the legal department's overall performance
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Hold a law degree from an accredited institution, be licensed in a relevant jurisdiction, and maintain good standing as an attorney.
- Bring 3+ years of legal experience supporting Sales teams in private practice or in-house, ideally with technology or telecommunications clients.
- Demonstrate excellent project and time management, sound business judgment, effective prioritization, and reliable follow-through in dynamic, multi-project environments.
- Demonstrate a solid understanding of commercial law, intellectual property rights, and privacy and data protection;
- Communicate fluently in English, draft contracts clearly and concisely, and conduct legal negotiations by phone or video.
- Possess excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Skills Required
- Law degree from an accredited institution
- Licensed attorney in a relevant jurisdiction and in good standing
- 3+ years of legal experience supporting Sales teams in private practice or in-house
- Experience with technology or telecommunications clients
- Excellent project and time management skills
- Sound business judgment and effective prioritization
- Strong understanding of commercial law
- Understanding of intellectual property rights
- Understanding of privacy and data protection
- Fluent English communication skills
- Ability to draft contracts clearly and concisely
- Ability to conduct legal negotiations by phone or video
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
Akamai Technologies Insights
What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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