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Senior Commercial Legal Counsel, APAC

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Remote, Japan; Remote, Philippines; Remote, Singapore

Our take: The real work here is negotiating complex cross-border commercial deals across APJ while building the templates, guidance and trust that let Sales move with confidence.

If you like turning tangled cross-border contracting into deals that actually close, this role gives you a whole region to shape. You will negotiate sophisticated agreements across APJ, build the playbooks that make contracting consistent, and become the calm, trusted voice Sales leans on. It suits someone who enjoys reading legal risk honestly, explaining tradeoffs plainly, and working self-directed in an all-remote, async team.

Needs

  • negotiating complex deals
  • balancing legal risk
  • partnering with sales
  • building playbooks
  • training teams
  • translating legal plainly

Rewards

  • untangling complexity
  • growing a region
  • trusted advisor status
  • learning new markets

Demands

  • threading local norms
  • async across time zones
  • high-stakes deals
  • risk and compliance

Grows

  • cross-jurisdiction negotiation
  • cross-border deal structuring
  • privacy and ai terms

Values

  • practical over pure
  • consistency and rigour
  • durable growth
  • all-remote work

Drains

  • template upkeep
  • coordinating outside counsel
  • navigating big org

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