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Assistant General Counsel, Asia Commercial Legal Lead
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- Act as the lead commercial lawyer for Microsoft Asia in negotiating, drafting and project managing significant transactions and complex commercial deal. As well as have management responsibility for leading a regional team of senior attorneys covering significant transactions and complex commercial deals.
- This role will often be called upon to be a spokesperson and contributor to external discourse on a wide range of legal and policy issues and initiatives related to Microsoft’s business across our priority industries.
- Able to proactively advance legal and policy positions through high impact external engagement in small and/or large group settings, including communications with high-level government officials, influencers and the media.
- Working with the regional legal, industry and government affairs team, he/she will also contribute to publications, blogs, and whitepapers and be a regular speaker at customer and company events.
- Lead a high-performance team, be an effective team player, dedicated to collective successes with the ability to promote cooperation and facilitate problem resolution in a timely, creative and professional manner.
- Able to influence others including outside of direct reporting relationships and in seeking and leveraging different perspectives to bring together creative and relevant solutions that drive business impact.
- Able to work cross-group in a highly matrixed headquarters organization as well as possess the tools, intuition, capability and aptitude to engage, influence and sometimes direct a diverse, dynamic and empowered field organization based around the globe.
- Juris Doctor Degree/international equivalent degree AND 9+ years experience as a practicing attorney OR equivalent experience.
- Active license to practice law in a jurisdiction and capable of meeting admission requirements in relevant jurisdiction.
- 5+ years people management experience.
- 15+ years experience as an attorney in roles that involved: leading complex negotiations for technology transactions; industry experience in the context of helping understand, influence and shape the regulatory environment; engaging externally with influencers and stakeholders important to Microsoft’s success, including the legal, risk and compliance community as well as industry associations and government elite.
- Regional experience in Asia with exposure to policy and regulatory engagements in regulated industries (e.g public sector, financial services or healthcare) and familiarity with Microsoft’s cloud and AI offerings and sales channels is a plus.
- Highly developed written and oral communication skills; proven experience as an effective external spokesperson.
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About Microsoft
Size | More than 5000 |
Industry | Application Software |
Location | King County, United States |
Founded | 4 April 1975 |