Head of Legal

Job description

We’re a leading business management solution with a core purpose: helping more businesses in Australia and New Zealand start, survive and succeed. At MYOB, we believe what’s good for one business is good for all business—and for all of us. Whether you support them, work for them, or dream of building your own, when businesses run smoothly, everybody feels it. Owners, employees, customers, suppliers—even families. That’s why we’re here: to give every person in business the tools they need to focus on what really matters and do Big Things—whatever big looks like for them. And for you? Joining MYOB means being part of that impact. It means using your skills to help businesses thrive, shaping the future of work, and growing alongside the people and communities we support. Because while we’re the business of software, we’re really in the business of people. And that makes MYOB Everyone’s Business. ### About the role We are looking for a Head of Legal to lead our legal operations throughout Australia and New Zealand. Collaborating with closely with our General Counsel, you will be the operational engine of the team, ensuring we deliver commercially focused, high-quality advice when the business needs it most. In this role, you will: - **Lead and develop:** Guide, mentor, and grow a team of talented legal professionals, including our Senior Legal Counsels. You will allocate work, manage performance, and build our bench strength - **Drive the day-to-day:** Set the standards for how we work. From refining templates and playbooks to championing legal technology, automation and AI-enabled tools to reduce manual effort, improve turnaround times and give the team more time for high-value work - **Advise at the top:** Act as a senior adviser to the Executive and Senior Leadership teams on complex commercial, technology, corporate, and regulatory matters - **Manage the budget:** Own our legal budget and external spend, managing panel relationships to ensure quality and value - **Navigate complexity:** Lead high-value transactions, strategic partnerships, and oversee disputes, privacy, AI governance, and regulatory engagement alongside the Risk & Compliance team - **Deputise:** Step in for the General Counsel when needed, including supporting corporate governance and company secretarial activities ### The skills you'll need - **People leadership:** You have successfully led and developed an in-house legal team, managing budgets, resourcing, and work allocation - **Commercial and tech-savvy:** You are comfortable working closely with product and tech teams. You actively use AI tools to improve legal work, always balancing legal risk with commercial outcomes - **Broad legal judgment:** You bring deep commercial drafting and negotiation skills, with a proven grasp of technology contracting, IP, privacy, data, and consumer law. You pick up unfamiliar areas quickly - **Clear communication:** You build trust easily, influence senior stakeholders, and translate complex legal concepts into simple, actionable advice - **Adaptability:** You thrive in a fast-paced environment, prioritise with clear focus, and confidently make well-reasoned calls even with imperfect information - **Experience:** You have at least 10 years’ PQE, with strong commercial and technology experience from a quality law firm or in-house team (substantial in-house experience is highly preferred). Experience in SaaS, scale-up, or a regulated technology business is a big plus - **Qualifications:** You hold a Bachelor of Laws (or equivalent) and are admitted to practise in Australia, holding (or eligible to hold) a current practising certificate