Managing/Senior Counsel, Compliance

Are you looking to work with an international team to solve problems on a global scale?

Do you want an opportunity to effect change at a leading technology organization?

Join our Global Legal team!

Akamai Legal is a highly-experienced global team of professionals dedicated to advancing Akamai's business interests and next phase of growth, while simultaneously protecting its assets and reputation. We embrace the challenge of working at the intersection of rapid innovation and regularly evolving laws. The Legal team currently consists of nearly 70 professionals located around the world.

You will work closely with our network infrastructure strategy and operations, engineering, global procurement, information security, product development and finance teams to provide strategic legal counsel on complex commercial transactions that underpin Akamai's global cloud computing, content delivery and network infrastructure and other procurement matters with critical technology and infrastructure suppliers.

As a Senior Counsel, Network & Infrastructure Commercial Transactions, you will be responsible for:

Advising business, procurement, and engineering teams on complex commercial contracting and infrastructure matters supporting Akamai's global platform.

Drafting, review, and negotiate data center leases, colocation, bandwidth, connectivity, interconnection, transit, peering, and various hardware and software procurement agreements.

Identifying and advise on infrastructure transaction risks, including liability, indemnification, data security, compliance, operational dependencies, and other critical business considerations.

Developing and maintain contract templates, playbooks, and negotiation positions for infrastructure, procurement, colocation, and other commercial transactions.

Supporting strategic supplier relationships, including managing contract interpretations, renewals, amendments, escalations, and disputes.

Providing practical, business-oriented legal advice to senior stakeholders on transaction strategy, contracting processes, and risk management regarding global infrastructure.

Monitoring legal and market developments relevant to network infrastructure, data centers, telecommunications, hardware procurement, supply chain, and related technology transactions.

Providing legal support to the business in other commercial transactions, as needed.

Have a JD from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing in at least one relevant U.Have 8 years of legal practice, ideally with law firm and in-house experience, and relevant experience advising on technology, cloud, and network infrastructure legal issues.

Have experience structuring, drafting, negotiating complex commercial and technology agreements, including procurement, data center leases, colocation, network services, HW/SW, IaaS/SaaS contracts.

Have experience dealing with global clients and international regulatory issues related to cloud services, content delivery networks, and Internet-related technologies.

Have experience managing and coordinating outside counsel and collaborating on cross-functional projects within an ever-changing global technology environment.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery : Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI : Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.