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About the Role

Brighte is seeking a legal professional to focus on high-impact, strategically important decisions as the company grows across vendors, partners, products, and regulatory obligations. The role involves managing complex legal matters with real judgment, risk, and commercial consequence.

Responsibilities

• Own commercial contracting, including vendor, SaaS, supplier, referral, integration, collaboration, and data-sharing agreements.
• Negotiate commercial contracts directly with counterparties.
• Ensure vendor terms remain commercial while protecting Brighte's interests.
• Verify adherence to the Delegation of Authority (DOA) and secure necessary sign-offs before agreement finalization.
• Own customer-facing credit and product documentation, ensuring currency and compliance with consumer-credit regulation.
• Coordinate origination system updates with the Product team.
• Provide timely and practical sign-off on disclosures and marketing within authorized limits.
• Translate regulatory changes into operational obligations and controls for responsible lending, design and distribution, privacy, and consumer data.
• Support engagement with regulators and industry bodies.
• Manage occasional disputes, complaints, or AFCA matters.
• Develop and improve templates, playbooks, and thresholds to reduce the need for legal intervention.
• Supervise AI-assisted review processes.
• Manage legal intake through Jira.
• Surface clear Management Information (MI) on legal workload.
• Address the root cause of recurring legal questions.
• Conduct targeted training to enhance the business's self-sufficiency in legal matters.
• Utilize AI fluently for drafting, reviewing, summarizing, and triaging legal tasks, while verifying outputs against source material and protecting privileged information.

Requirements

• Admitted to practice law in NSW, Australia with a current practising certificate.
• Approximately 2-4 years of Post-Qualification Experience (PQE).
• Experience in commercial, tech, data, consumer-credit, or regulatory work.
• Experience working in or alongside an in-house legal team (secondments accepted).
• Comfortable with ambiguity, limited supervision, and fast-paced environments.
• Proven experience in end-to-end negotiation of commercial contracts directly with counterparties.
• Demonstrated experience in building resources such as playbooks, templates, automation, and training.
• Fluent and disciplined use of AI, including verification of AI-generated outputs.

Skills

• Commercial Contracting
• Negotiation
• Regulatory Compliance
• Consumer Credit Regulation
• Data Privacy
• AI Fluency
• Template Development
• Playbook Creation
• Legal Training
• Risk Management

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 2-4 years PQE

Education Level

• Admitted to practice law in NSW, Australia with a current practising certificate

Benefits

• Hybrid working (3 days in office, 2 from home)
• Social events (lunches, drinks, snacks)
• Table tennis
• Stocked pantry
• Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP)
• End-of-trip facilities (showers, towel service)
• Anniversary leave

About the Company

• Brighte's mission is to make consumer energy resources (CER) affordable and accessible.
• Brighte is building a platform to accelerate the energy transition by simplifying the purchase and sale of energy equipment.
• Founder and CEO, Katherine McConnell, has received recognition including Telstra Businesswoman of the Year (2020) and Sustainability Crusader at B&T's 2020 Women Leading Tech Awards.
• Brighte was named an AFR Sustainability Leader in Banking and Finance in 2025 and won the inaugural Sustainability Award at the Affies in 2024.
• The company is committed to an AI-first approach in its operations.