Digital Realty에서 글로벌 계정 및 하이퍼스케일 고객을 위한 상업 계약 총괄 법무 책임자를 채용합니다. 15년 이상의 상업 법무 경력과 데이터 센터 계약 협상 능력이 필수입니다. 북미 법무 팀을 리딩하며 복잡한 다국적 거래를 주도하고 비즈니스 전략을 법적으로 지원하는 핵심 역할을 수행합니다. 법학 박사(JD) 학위와 뛰어난 리더십 역량을 갖춘 전문가를 찾습니다.
Location: Dallas, TX
This senior leadership role sits within Digital Realty’s global Legal, Risk, Sustainability & Compliance (LRSC) organization and leads the North America Legal Commercial function supporting Global Accounts and Hyperscale customers. As the primary legal advisor to the Global Accounts Sales team, you will guide complex commercial transactions—including large‑scale data center leases, MSAs, SLAs, and multi‑jurisdictional agreements—while partnering closely with Hyperscale Development & Leasing on major leasing initiatives across joint ventures and investment fund assets. This position requires a proactive, business‑oriented legal leader who brings strong judgment, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate in a fast‑paced global environment.
Draft, negotiate, and advise on complex, multi‑jurisdictional data center agreements, including MSAs, colocation agreements, leases, license agreements, and service agreements.
Lead legal support for hyperscale leasing transactions, including negotiations involving joint venture and fund assets.
Serve as the senior legal advisor to the Global Accounts Sales team on high‑value commercial transactions.
Partner with Design, Engineering & Construction, Portfolio Management, and Sales to align contractual terms with project delivery, customer requirements, and operational readiness while mitigating risk.
Advise internal stakeholders on negotiation strategy, customer positioning, and risk alignment with Digital Realty’s commercial objectives.
Provide legal insight on expansions, renewals, capital improvements, and portfolio initiatives that enhance customer and asset value.
Support portfolio management and property operations on customer issues, audits, escalations, and major projects.
Support executive‑level engagement with customers, investors, and joint venture partners.
Lead, develop, and mentor the North America Legal Commercial team for Global Accounts & Hyperscale customers.
Drive continuous improvement of templates, playbooks, and legal processes to increase efficiency and accelerate deal execution.
Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited U.S. law school; admitted in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and in good standing.
15–20 years of commercial legal experience (law firm and/or in‑house).
Extensive experience negotiating complex commercial agreements, including data center leases, MSAs, license agreements, and technology‑related service agreements.
Direct experience negotiating with hyperscale/cloud providers; background in technology, cloud services, or data centers strongly preferred.
Strong commercial judgment with the ability to align legal guidance to business objectives.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and professionalism in cross‑functional interactions.
Highly proactive, hands‑on, and solution‑oriented approach.
Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage deadlines, prioritize competing demands, and maintain accuracy.
Demonstrated analytical, problem‑solving, and critical‑thinking capabilities.
Proven leadership experience managing, motivating, and developing legal professionals; ability to operate effectively in a global environment with some travel required.
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.
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Our Legal team works in a highly complex global business sector with a diverse range of local, regional and international organizations. From ensuring compliance in different jurisdictions to supporting business teams with customer and supplier contracts, we’re involved in a variety of projects. Working in a dynamic commercial environment, we collaborate with colleagues across different departments and always have a new challenge waiting for us.
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
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Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.
Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.
We are seeking a Senior Legal Director, Commercial Contracting (Global Accounts / Hyperscale) for our Dallas, TX location.
