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About the Role

This role offers the opportunity to accelerate your career while working on complex, high-profile matters alongside leading Partners. You will have extensive exposure to clients, benefit from exceptional learning and development opportunities, and be an integral member of a dynamic, ambitious, and collaborative team.

Responsibilities

Drafting technology contracts and agreements.
Providing advice on the supply and procurement of goods or services in the digital, technology, telecommunications, and media sectors.
Designing compliance programs to protect critical business interests.
Using novel structures for new technology offerings.
Working across borders and practice areas to advise providers and users on technology, outsourcing, digital regulation, data privacy, information management, communications, and mobility issues.

Requirements

5-8 years' PQE gained at a top-tier or leading international law firm.
5-8 years' experience in complex technology, regulatory and commercial work, preferably within a similar large firm environment with a focus on larger, transactional deals and complex regulatory and advisory matters.
Relevant experience in a top tier or leading international firm preferred.
A strong client service orientation.
Strong technical, drafting and commercial skills.
Excellent analytical, communication, and research skills.
A commitment to high work standards and strong attention to detail.
An ability to demonstrate initiative and proactivity.
An ability to develop strong relationships with clients and to take responsibility for this relationship.
An ability to work well in a team environment (including across Australian offices and internationally).
Relevant legal qualifications.
A willingness to learn.

Skills

Technology contracts and agreements drafting
Advice on supply and procurement of goods or services
Digital regulation
Telecommunications regulation
Media regulation
Privacy regulation
Online safety regulation
Cybersecurity regulation
Broadcasting regulation
Client relationship management
Teamwork
Analytical skills
Communication skills
Research skills
Technical skills
Drafting skills
Commercial skills

Location

Sydney

Work Type

Hybrid
Full Time

Experience Level

Senior Associate
5 - 8 years' PQE

Education Level

Relevant legal qualifications

Benefits

Competitive remuneration package
Generous bonus scheme
Salary continuance insurance
Life insurance
Salary sacrifice options
Employee discounts
Referral rewards
Travel insurance for you and your immediate family
Client and international office secondments
Regional and global development programs
Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
26 weeks' paid parental leave for parents/carers (with no minimum service)
Access to an external coaching service for parental leave
Ability to purchase additional annual leave
Flexible public holidays
Volunteer leave
Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling and wellbeing and financial coaching for you and your immediate family
Flu vaccinations
Discounted health insurance

About the Company

Baker McKenzie thrives in the face of constant innovation and profitability with the technology of tomorrow.
Continuous innovation is essential if organisations want to take full advantage of new opportunities, making it crucial for companies to become more efficient and creative in how they develop, source, and use technology.
We have amassed a wealth of experience over the past four decades as a global leader that offers scalable, flexible solutions customised to clients' needs, budget and resources, across diverse business functions and operation locations.
We are the largest Data & Technology Group in the world, ranked Band 1 by Chambers Global for TMT, Data Protection and Outsourcing by Chambers Global for 13 consecutive years.
Our lawyers work across borders and practice areas to advise providers and users on technology, outsourcing, digital regulation, data privacy, information management, communications and mobility issues — designing compliance programs to protect critical business interests and using novel structures for new technology offerings.
No other law firm has more experience helping clients navigate the legal and commercial risks on the sourcing, use and provision of technology.
Thanks to our collaborative approach, we can help our clients to remain compliant, innovative and profitable in what remains a quickly evolving industry.
At Baker McKenzie, our flat structure means you will have direct exposure to clients, responsibility for meaningful involvement across a broad range of matters, and opportunities for progression.
You will also regularly work with our extensive network of global colleagues and clients.
At Baker McKenzie, we are different in the way we think, work and behave.
The first local, truly global law firm in Australia, we commenced operations in Sydney in 1964, in Melbourne in 1982 and in Brisbane in 2014.
With our breadth of experience in the local market and global connectivity, we are the law firm of choice for Australian and multinational companies.
We have 6,500 lawyers globally who work seamlessly together – across practice groups, sectors and markets – to provide our clients with the connected perspectives, integrated solutions and seamless guidance they need to succeed in an increasingly interconnected global market.
Baker McKenzie Australia can offer you access to complex, market-leading matters working with some of the world's best legal minds – people who know the law and who understand business.
We have an unrivalled ability to provide training and secondment opportunities across our global network.
Locally, we have an inclusive culture of learning, coaching and opportunity where you will work as part of teams on matters that often cross borders.
We value people who think ahead and get noticed.

Equal Opportunity

Baker McKenzie is committed to providing a diverse, inclusive and equitable culture for all of its employees, with equal opportunity for all to progress and have a meaningful career with our Firm.
As part of our inclusive culture, we welcome applications from people of all genders (including if you identify as transgender or gender diverse), sexual orientations, abilities, cultural backgrounds, as well as First Nations peoples and people with caring responsibilities, neurodivergent lived experiences and disabilities.
We want all applicants to be given the best possible opportunity to succeed in our recruitment processes, so invite you to let us know of any reasonable adjustments you require to equitably participate in our recruitment processes or in performing the requirements of a role at Baker McKenzie.
We appreciate that everyone's needs are different. Please contact us so that we can work with you to best support you in our recruitment processes.
We are happy to share accommodations we've made in the past and are keen to work with you personally, to set you up for success.