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UpGuard

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UpGuard’s mission is to protect the world’s data. We obsessively seek out elegant, robust ways to enable our customers to find, acknowledge, and remediate cyber risk. With UpGuard, organizations leverage our security expertise and software to automate what was once laborious, spreadsheet-driven processes–whether it's monitoring the attack surface of hundreds of vendors or assessing the security of their own infrastructure. UpGuard is used by some of the world’s largest, fastest-growing, and most innovative companies.

Job Responsibility:

  • Act as a strategic legal advisor to executive leadership, proactively identifying risks and opportunities to support informed, high-impact decisions
  • Build and scale a technology-enabled legal team, leveraging AI and automation to drive efficiency, optimize workflows, and provide responsive support
  • Lead a high-performing B2B SaaS contracting team, implementing scalable processes and metrics-driven practices to accelerate deals and reduce risk
  • Provide strategic product counseling to product, engineering, and go-to-market teams, addressing legal issues and enabling successful, compliant product launches
  • Develop and oversee a scalable compliance program, covering data privacy (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), OFAC/trade compliance, anti-bribery, AI governance, and ethics
  • Manage corporate legal activities, including governance, equity administration, employment matters, M&A, and fundraising
  • Direct intellectual property strategy, proactively protecting and managing trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of legal experience, with a strong in-house background at an international, B2B SaaS company
  • 4+ years of experience in a leadership role, managing and building legal teams
  • Law degree and admission to and in good standing with the local governing body
  • Exceptional ability to integrate legal, technical, and business perspectives, with proven experience translating complex legal issues into practical, actionable guidance aligned with business and technology objectives
  • Deep understanding with sell-side SaaS contracting and experience navigating complicated deals across various deal sizes and buyer types
  • Strong interpersonal and cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience providing responsive, business-oriented legal support across global teams, time zones, cultures, and distributed (hybrid/remote) environments
  • Significant breadth of knowledge and experience in as many of the following areas as possible: commercial contracts, corporate governance, data security and privacy, AI governance, employment and human resources, intellectual property, marketing (B2B), product, intellectual property, regulatory and trade compliance
  • Experience implementing AI tools and workflow automation to enhance legal operations, drive efficiency, and scale support for business needs
What we offer:
  • Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: use this for financial, physical and mental wellbeing (all regions)
  • WFH set-up allowance: to ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set-up within your first 3 months at UpGuard (all regions)
  • $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: to support your career development all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance (all regions)
  • Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances: time to recharge your batteries (all regions)
  • 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: irrespective of parenting role (all regions)
  • Personal Leave allowance: this includes sick & carer’s leave (all regions)
  • Fully remote working environment: whilst we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance (all regions)
  • Top spec hardware: all team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role (all regions)
  • Generative AI & Automation tooling: UpGuard provides industry leading generative AI and automation tools to support all team members with their work (all regions)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 15, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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