Associate General Counsel, Asia

**About our group**:
Members of Seagate’s Legal, Government Relations, and Global Trust and Security Department are diverse, dynamic, innovative and engaged. Our attorneys and other professionals work collaboratively as valued business partners to support Seagate’s strategy and objectives.

Our team goals are to Protect Seagate, Deliver Awesome Services, Build Sustainable Relationships, and Build the Best Team. We do impactful and interesting work, support each other, and have fun.

**About the role - you will**:
The Associate General Counsel role will be based out of our Singapore office, and will report to the Deputy General Counsel in the US.

You will lead and manage the Asia commercial contracts team comprising of senior attorneys/professionals from Singapore, China and Thailand.

Together with a collaborative group of professional legal colleagues from around the world, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting, challenging, and often cutting-edge legal issues that require creative and proactive legal advice and client service.

**Commercial Contracts**
- Working with cross-functional clients to support our complex global business, the Asia commercial contracts team provides commercial contract support and general legal advisory services on a broad range of legal issues to business clients primarily in Singapore, China, Thailand, Malaysia and India, as well as in other multiple worldwide sites as required.
- The Asia commercial contracts team specializes in both local and cross-border commercial contracts. The team utilizes Seagate standard templates, and works closely with internal requestors and stakeholders to determine business requirements, review terms of contract, identify non-standard terms, and obtain approvals in accordance with Seagate policies.
- The team owns the contract workflow and approval processes, and manages the existing contracts database throughout the contract lifecycle, from negotiating, drafting, amending, reviewing, through signing and archiving, with the support of an administrative assistant located in Singapore.

**Cross-Functional Support; Other Duties**
- The Associate General Counsel may also be required to extend support to other areas of the legal department, such as dispute resolution, intellectual property, government relations, compliance and ethics, and labor law, and work with and manage relationships with outside counsel.
- You will be required to stay abreast of legislative, regulatory and judicial developments that may affect the company.
- You will also have responsibilities in developing and delivering training, supporting audits and other initiatives.
- In addition, this role may be asked to take on other further duties per the discretion of management.

**About you**:
All of the following are desirable knowledge and experience for this role:
**Management and Leadership**:

- Law degree or equivalent with admission to practice law and at least 10 years of post-qualification experience.
- Competent people manager with strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, invested in employee development and coaching, able to provide direction, guidance and motivation to direct reports, draw out their strengths and support their career development within the company, and create a positive work environment.
- An excellent communicator with ability to work independently, as well as successfully collaborate in partnerships across multiple sites in cross-functional projects.
- Experience leading and managing a cross-border team of senior attorneys/professionals providing legal and contractual support to business clients in multiple worldwide sites across different time zones.
- Detail-oriented, organized, and hard-working.
- Ability to develop and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships with all levels of the organization, and be recognized by clients as a trusted and strategic legal business partner that actively participates in problem solving with director level cross-functional peers as well as executive leaders by assessing risks, weighing in and making recommendations to the business.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment with the initiative to take on, manage and drive multiple projects simultaneously under deadline pressure to completion.
- Ability to think strategically and critically, lead with confidence and compassion, influence cross-functional teams, solve problems creatively and make decisions.
- Possess exceptional interpersonal skills, a sense of humor, unquestionable ethics and integrity, and sound judgment.
- Proficient with Microsoft Word and other Microsoft Office 365 products.
- Possess excellent verbal and written professional communication skills in English.

**Your experience includes**:
All of the following are desirable knowledge and experience for this role:
**Strong Legal Background**:

- Transactional experience at a law firm, experience working in the corporate legal department for a multinati