What you'll do
- Work closely with Xero’s Go-To-Market teams in APAC to help drive strategic relationships and initiatives for Xero locally, but with a global mindset. This often involves working with other legal teams like Privacy and IP, especially where the use of data is required to drive strategic goals in the APAC region.
- Work as an integrated part of the global legal team to provide support on global matters that impact the APAC region, including Partnerships, product and technology.
- Provide advice to internal Xero stakeholders on legal aspects of their defined areas (including Sales, Marketing, the Partnerships/ Ecosystem team, the Xero Customer Support team, PX (HR), WX (Workplace Experience / Office Management), and region-specific product and partnerships).
- Review, negotiate and draft key legal documents, such as vendor supply agreements, marketing partner agreements, data exchange agreements, integration agreements, procurement contracts, sponsorship agreements, partnership/API integration/customer referral agreements with banks and other large companies.
- Review various marketing materials and comms for the region including potential radio and TVC advertising, social media content and various marketing and operational emails to existing subscribers.
- Ensure the business is informed and compliant with any relevant existing or proposed legislation that may impact the operations of the business.
- Drive and/or manage within the global legal team projects to manage workflow, improve operational efficiency, achieve global and regional education and training, and enable compliance.
- Contribute to internal policy and process development.
- Liaise and collaborate with legal team peers to deliver holistic legal function outcomes.
- Assist with investigating and responding to enquiries from law enforcement agencies, regulators and some courts and tribunals relating to customer information held by Xero.
- Advising on incident management and customer related issues/disputes.
- Assist with any M&A activity in the APAC region, as required.
- Liaise with and manage Xero’s external legal advisors, as required.
- Responding to ad hoc queries in the Xero team’s legal inbox.
What you'll bring with you
- 3 - 6 years PQE (in-house legal experience desirable)
- Demonstrated ability to be a commercially minded business partner to busy Go-To-Market teams in an often fast paced environment
- Current legal practicing certificate in AU or NZ
- Experience providing legal advice to companies in the technology sector (desirable)
- Experience negotiating & drafting agreements in a commercial context
- Experience advising on consumer law matters and reviewing various marketing materials
- Experience with data protection regulation (desirable)
- Experience liaising with regulators and statutory/law enforcement bodies (desirable)
- Experience with financial services regulation and competition law (desirable)
- Experience advising in Asia (desirable)
- Experience in employment law and/or litigation/regulatory investigations (desirable)
- Strong drafting, analytical, and interpretation skills
- Strong commercial acumen and a pragmatic approach
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
What We Do
Xero is small business accounting software that provides a platform on which businesses can build a fully integrated solution. It’s designed to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. Xero minimises tedious admin by automating routine tasks, delivers valuable insights when needed, and brings together business data, trusted advisors, and powerful apps in one intuitive platform. By alleviating pain points, Xero empowers small business owners to supercharge their business, simplifying the complex and freeing up time from manual admin so they can focus on what really matters to build the business they’ve always envisaged.
Why Work With Us
Xero is a human-centric organization where you’ll have a tangible impact on the success of small businesses and their communities, globally. Our team of energised, forward-thinkers work to make life better for our customers and each other every day. We’re also always committed to supporting you with a flexible environment.
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