Commercial Counsel

About Our Group:

Seagate's Legal Team is a global group of talented, diverse, and collaborative professionals who partner with the business to navigate complex legal and regulatory issues around the world. The team has expertise across a variety of legal specialties and supports the business in a complex global operating environment.

About the Role
We are seeking a business-minded, technology-focused Senior Corporate Counsel I to join our global legal team in Singapore. This role is ideal for a commercial transactions lawyer who enjoys partnering with business stakeholders, supporting local, regional, and global commercial matters, and delivering practical legal advice in a fast-paced technology environment.

What You'll Do

• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including vendor and supplier contracts, services agreements, technology licensing agreements, procurement agreements, sales-related agreements, NDAs, amendments, and other business contracts.

• Use AI and legal technology tools to support contract review, legal analysis, and other legal tasks.

• Provide practical legal advice to internal clients on contract terms, legal risk, approval requirements, and company policies.

• Identify non-standard contract terms, escalate issues appropriately, and help drive practical, risk-based resolutions.

• Partner with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into practical contractual solutions.

• Support contract lifecycle activities, including drafting, negotiation, review, approval routing, execution, amendment, renewal, and archiving.

• Ensure contracts are reviewed, negotiated, approved, executed, and managed in compliance with Seagate policies and applicable legal requirements.

• Collaborate with colleagues across Legal, Finance, Procurement, Sales, Engineering, Operations, Compliance, Information Security, and other functions.

• Stay informed on legal and regulatory developments relevant to commercial contracting, technology transactions, data privacy, trade compliance, anti-corruption, competition law, and related areas.

• Support process improvement initiatives, contract templates, playbooks, training, audits, and other legal department projects as needed.

• Coordinate with outside counsel when appropriate and under the guidance of senior legal team members.

About You

• Practical, business-oriented lawyer with sound judgment and strong attention to detail.

• Strong drafting, negotiation, issue-spotting, and analytical skills.

• Able to manage multiple matters and competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Comfortable working independently while also collaborating across multiple sites, functions, regions, and time zones.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Builds trusted relationships with stakeholders and delivers clear, concise, and actionable legal advice.

• Organized, responsive, collaborative, and committed to high standards of ethics and integrity.

• Demonstrates a strong interest in technology, commercial contracting, and supporting a global business.

• Comfortable using CLM platforms, AI tools, and other business systems to work efficiently and support continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Law degree or equivalent legal qualification, with admission to practice law in Singapore or another relevant jurisdiction.

• Approximately 5-8 years of post-qualification transactional legal experience, preferably including experience with commercial contracts, technology transactions, procurement, sales, licensing, or other cross-border commercial matters.

• Experience at a law firm, multinational company, or in-house legal department supporting commercial transactions is preferred.

• Strong understanding of core commercial contracting principles and the legal and business implications of contract language.

• Experience advising technology, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, or sales teams is a plus.

• Familiarity with Singapore, APAC, and global commercial legal issues, including data privacy, trade compliance, anti-corruption, competition law, or related regulatory areas, is desirable.

• Experience using contract lifecycle management tools and Microsoft Office 365 products is preferred.

• Experience leveraging AI, legal technology, automation, or process improvement initiatives is a plus.

Why Seagate

• Join a collaborative global legal team supporting a leading technology company.

• Work on a broad range of commercial transactions across Singapore, APAC, and worldwide operations.

• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders in a dynamic, innovation-driven environment.

• Develop your legal, commercial, and business skills while making a meaningful impact on the business.