Senior Director, Commercial Legal - Americas Region
Atlassian
Senior Director, Commercial Legal - Americas Region
Job Description
Senior Director, Commercial Legal - Americas Region
📋 Job Overview
The Senior Director, Commercial Legal - Americas Region will lead the legal team supporting Atlassian's rapidly expanding enterprise business in the Americas. This role involves serving as a trusted advisor to senior Sales leaders, driving legal support for commercial endeavors, and leading key projects related to cloud and AI transformation efforts. The ideal candidate is a seasoned attorney with strong leadership skills, capable of thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
📍 Location: New York, United States
🏢 Category: Legal
📅 Posted: 2025-12-11 06:25 PM
🎯 Key Responsibilities
- Serve as business partner for the Americas Region leaders across all sales segments
- Lead the Americas-based Enterprise Sales & International Operations Legal team in providing legal advice for customer-facing commercial matters
- Support compliance in day-to-day activities in the Americas, including training and counseling sales professionals
- Manage and develop a growing team of 14+ seasoned legal professionals
- Budget management, coordination of external counsel, goal setting, metric reporting, and organizational planning
- Set a course and lead key projects supporting cloud and AI transformation efforts
- Serve on the leadership team for the Commercial & GBO Legal Team, participating in team planning and setting strategic priorities
✅ Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience as a practicing attorney
- At least eight years practicing as an in-house lawyer, preferably for a multinational, publicly-listed company
- 3+ years of management experience with legal teams
- In depth knowledge of commercial and contract law based on working in a law firm and/or in-house on complex technology transactions for a software and/or cloud services provider
- Experience working in a matrixed environment, with remote, global, and cross-functional teams
- JD from an accredited law school and be a member in good standing of at least one state Bar
⭐ Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in other legal fields like intellectual property, privacy, and data protection law
🛠️ Required Skills
- Substantial commercial and contract law experience
- Strong business acumen
- Pragmatic approach focused on delivering business-oriented results
- Highly curious and quick learner
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong collaboration skills
- Excellent leadership, organizational, and communication skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Sense of urgency and ability to prioritize
- Ownership and proactive approach
- Forward-thinking and creative
- Passion for technology
- Highest integrity
- Sense of humor
- Ability to build strong relationships
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- Flexibility to choose where to work
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
- Wide range of perks and benefits
Locations
- New York, United States
Salary
245,700 - 385,400 USD / yearly
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
250,000 - 350,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Substantial commercial and contract law experienceintermediate
- Strong business acumenintermediate
- Pragmatic approach focused on delivering business-oriented resultsintermediate
- Highly curious and quick learnerintermediate
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skillsintermediate
- Strong collaboration skillsintermediate
- Excellent leadership, organizational, and communication skillsintermediate
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environmentintermediate
- Sense of urgency and ability to prioritizeintermediate
- Ownership and proactive approachintermediate
- Forward-thinking and creativeintermediate
- Passion for technologyintermediate
- Highest integrityintermediate
- Sense of humorintermediate
- Ability to build strong relationshipsintermediate
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience as a practicing attorney (experience)
- At least eight years practicing as an in-house lawyer, preferably for a multinational, publicly-listed company (experience)
- 3+ years of management experience with legal teams (experience)
- In depth knowledge of commercial and contract law based on working in a law firm and/or in-house on complex technology transactions for a software and/or cloud services provider (experience)
- Experience working in a matrixed environment, with remote, global, and cross-functional teams (experience)
- JD from an accredited law school and be a member in good standing of at least one state Bar (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in other legal fields like intellectual property, privacy, and data protection law (experience)
Responsibilities
- Serve as business partner for the Americas Region leaders across all sales segments
- Lead the Americas-based Enterprise Sales & International Operations Legal team in providing legal advice for customer-facing commercial matters
- Support compliance in day-to-day activities in the Americas, including training and counseling sales professionals
- Manage and develop a growing team of 14+ seasoned legal professionals
- Budget management, coordination of external counsel, goal setting, metric reporting, and organizational planning
- Set a course and lead key projects supporting cloud and AI transformation efforts
- Serve on the leadership team for the Commercial & GBO Legal Team, participating in team planning and setting strategic priorities
Benefits
- general: Flexibility to choose where to work
- general: Health and wellbeing resources
- general: Paid volunteer days
- general: Wide range of perks and benefits
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Senior Director, Commercial Legal - Americas Region
Atlassian
Senior Director, Commercial Legal - Americas Region
Job Description
Senior Director, Commercial Legal - Americas Region
📋 Job Overview
The Senior Director, Commercial Legal - Americas Region will lead the legal team supporting Atlassian's rapidly expanding enterprise business in the Americas. This role involves serving as a trusted advisor to senior Sales leaders, driving legal support for commercial endeavors, and leading key projects related to cloud and AI transformation efforts. The ideal candidate is a seasoned attorney with strong leadership skills, capable of thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
📍 Location: New York, United States
🏢 Category: Legal
📅 Posted: 2025-12-11 06:25 PM
🎯 Key Responsibilities
- Serve as business partner for the Americas Region leaders across all sales segments
- Lead the Americas-based Enterprise Sales & International Operations Legal team in providing legal advice for customer-facing commercial matters
- Support compliance in day-to-day activities in the Americas, including training and counseling sales professionals
- Manage and develop a growing team of 14+ seasoned legal professionals
- Budget management, coordination of external counsel, goal setting, metric reporting, and organizational planning
- Set a course and lead key projects supporting cloud and AI transformation efforts
- Serve on the leadership team for the Commercial & GBO Legal Team, participating in team planning and setting strategic priorities
✅ Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience as a practicing attorney
- At least eight years practicing as an in-house lawyer, preferably for a multinational, publicly-listed company
- 3+ years of management experience with legal teams
- In depth knowledge of commercial and contract law based on working in a law firm and/or in-house on complex technology transactions for a software and/or cloud services provider
- Experience working in a matrixed environment, with remote, global, and cross-functional teams
- JD from an accredited law school and be a member in good standing of at least one state Bar
⭐ Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in other legal fields like intellectual property, privacy, and data protection law
🛠️ Required Skills
- Substantial commercial and contract law experience
- Strong business acumen
- Pragmatic approach focused on delivering business-oriented results
- Highly curious and quick learner
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong collaboration skills
- Excellent leadership, organizational, and communication skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Sense of urgency and ability to prioritize
- Ownership and proactive approach
- Forward-thinking and creative
- Passion for technology
- Highest integrity
- Sense of humor
- Ability to build strong relationships
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- Flexibility to choose where to work
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
- Wide range of perks and benefits
Locations
- New York, United States
Salary
245,700 - 385,400 USD / yearly
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
250,000 - 350,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Substantial commercial and contract law experienceintermediate
- Strong business acumenintermediate
- Pragmatic approach focused on delivering business-oriented resultsintermediate
- Highly curious and quick learnerintermediate
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skillsintermediate
- Strong collaboration skillsintermediate
- Excellent leadership, organizational, and communication skillsintermediate
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environmentintermediate
- Sense of urgency and ability to prioritizeintermediate
- Ownership and proactive approachintermediate
- Forward-thinking and creativeintermediate
- Passion for technologyintermediate
- Highest integrityintermediate
- Sense of humorintermediate
- Ability to build strong relationshipsintermediate
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience as a practicing attorney (experience)
- At least eight years practicing as an in-house lawyer, preferably for a multinational, publicly-listed company (experience)
- 3+ years of management experience with legal teams (experience)
- In depth knowledge of commercial and contract law based on working in a law firm and/or in-house on complex technology transactions for a software and/or cloud services provider (experience)
- Experience working in a matrixed environment, with remote, global, and cross-functional teams (experience)
- JD from an accredited law school and be a member in good standing of at least one state Bar (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in other legal fields like intellectual property, privacy, and data protection law (experience)
Responsibilities
- Serve as business partner for the Americas Region leaders across all sales segments
- Lead the Americas-based Enterprise Sales & International Operations Legal team in providing legal advice for customer-facing commercial matters
- Support compliance in day-to-day activities in the Americas, including training and counseling sales professionals
- Manage and develop a growing team of 14+ seasoned legal professionals
- Budget management, coordination of external counsel, goal setting, metric reporting, and organizational planning
- Set a course and lead key projects supporting cloud and AI transformation efforts
- Serve on the leadership team for the Commercial & GBO Legal Team, participating in team planning and setting strategic priorities
Benefits
- general: Flexibility to choose where to work
- general: Health and wellbeing resources
- general: Paid volunteer days
- general: Wide range of perks and benefits
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