Senior Legal Counsel - Customer, Technology & Intellectual Property

About the role

The Senior Legal Counsel is a senior member of the legal team responsible for providing strategic, commercially focused legal support across customer, technology, and intellectual property activities. Reporting to the General Counsel, the role serves as a trusted adviser to business leaders on complex legal, commercial, and regulatory matters to help the company manage risk and execute its growth strategy.

Responsibilities

• Customer agreements and strategic commercial arrangements
• Technology, software, SaaS and IT contracting
• Intellectual property protection, licensing and commercialisation
• Regulatory compliance, including privacy, data protection and export controls
• Consumer law and fair trading matters
• Product, platform and technology-related legal support
• Legal risk management and regulatory compliance
• Development and maintenance of legal templates, policies and frameworks

Required skills

• Technology law
• Intellectual property
• Privacy
• Data protection
• Customer contracting
• Consumer law
• Commercial contracting
• Legal risk management

Nice to have

• Cloud computing
• Software licensing
• Cybersecurity
• Technology procurement
• Cross-border regulatory matters

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent legal qualification
• Admission as a legal practitioner in Australia and eligibility to hold a practising certificate

About the Company

Firmus Technologies is a global leader pioneering the development and operation of efficient AI infrastructure across Asia Pacific. Founded in 2019, the company designs, builds, and operates AI Factories using model-to-grid technology to deliver energy-efficient AI compute at scale.