Legal Counsel Job at Brighte Capital (Sydney)

Job Description

We run lean, with routine work templated, automated or self-served wherever possible, so legal expertise is focused on the decisions that carry real judgement, risk and commercial consequence. As Brighte grows across vendors, partners, products and regulatory obligations, the work reaching Legal is increasingly complex, high-impact and strategically important.

Job Responsibility

Own commercial contracting. End-to-end ownership of vendor, SaaS, supplier, referral, integration, collaboration and data-sharing agreements. Negotiate the ones that need a lawyer directly with the other side, keep vendor terms commercial without dropping Brighte’s protections, and make sure the DOA is followed and the right sign-offs are in place before anything is signed
Keep customer and product documentation right. Own the customer-facing credit and product documents, keep them current and aligned with consumer-credit regulation, coordinate origination-system updates with Product, and give fast, practical sign-off on disclosures and marketing within your authority
Partner with Risk & Compliance. Turn regulatory change into operational obligations and controls across responsible lending, design and distribution, privacy and consumer data. Support engagement with regulators and industry bodies, and run point on the occasional dispute, complaint or AFCA matter
Make fewer matters need a lawyer, and build self-serve capability. Sharpen templates, playbooks and thresholds, supervise AI-assisted review, run legal intake through Jira, and surface clear MI on what Legal is carrying. When the same question reaches you twice, fix the cause behind it rather than answering it again. Run targeted training so the business gets more right without you
Work AI-first. We’re serious about AI, and serious about doing it properly. In legal, judgement beats volume so you’ll use AI fluently to draft, review, summarise and triage, but you verify against the source (the legislation, the contract, the file), protect what’s privileged and confidential, and own every output

Requirements

Admitted to practise law in NSW, Australia with a current practising certificate, and have around ~2–4 years' PQE
Trained somewhere that held you to a high standard, and spent most of your time on commercial, tech, data, consumer-credit or regulatory work
Worked in or alongside an in-house team (secondments count), so you're comfortable with ambiguity, limited supervision and speed
Negotiated commercial contracts end-to-end, directly with the other side and ideally without someone checking your work before it goes out
Built things other people use, such as playbooks, templates, automation and training
Use AI fluently and with discipline: fast, but you check what it gives you

What we offer

Hybrid working. 3 days in office, 2 from home
Socials - lunches, drinks, snacks, table tennis, a properly stocked pantry, and the company of people you actually like
Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP). Share in Brighte's success
End-of-trip facilities for cyclists, including showers and towel service
Anniversary leave. An extra day off each year to mark your time with us

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