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CenturyLink

Global telecommunications and IT services provider

Assistant General Counsel – Senior Director - Technology Transactions

Legal Counsel & Legal SupportPosted on Nov 12
Full-timeRemote in USA$174.9k - $256.5kRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • A J.D. degree and a license to practice law from the State Bar in the state where the attorney is located.
  • Generally, at least 12 years of relevant legal experience.
  • Significant experience leading and directly negotiating complex, high-value technology transactions in a cloud, Software as a Service (SaaS), or comparable technology environment.
  • Experience advising internal clients at all organizational levels and the ability to influence and build credibility with senior stakeholders.
  • Strong, solutions-oriented business judgment and the ability to balance legal considerations with commercial objectives.
  • A track record of personally managing sophisticated, client-facing legal matters while serving as an organizational leader.
  • Experience with intellectual property, data security, and privacy issues relevant to technology transactions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and personally negotiate complex, high-value technology transactions through execution.
  • Advise on commercial matters involving cloud-native, Software as a Service (SaaS), and other technology offerings, providing strategic legal counsel.
  • Partner with senior stakeholders, business leaders, and internal clients to navigate legal considerations, business priorities, and transaction strategy, building trusted relationships and delivering practical, business-oriented guidance.
  • Partner across relevant legal disciplines, including intellectual property, artificial intelligence, data security, and privacy, on matters connected to technology transactions.
  • Build and lead additional legal capacity, providing organizational leadership and shaping the technology transactions function as team structure and organizational priorities evolve.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience supporting or leading legal teams in an evolving organizational environment.

About the Company

CenturyLink

Global telecommunications and IT services provider

CenturyLink, now Lumen Technologies, provides telecommunications and IT services for businesses and government, including voice, network, cloud, and managed services. Its offerings cover VoIP, SIP Trunking, hosted VoIP, SD-WAN, MPLS, IPVPN, plus Big Data as a Service, IoT, and cloud management across hybrid, private, and public clouds—backed by data centers. Compared with competitors, it combines traditional communications with modern network and cloud services at scale, serving a wide range of industries globally. Its goal is to help customers communicate, connect, and digitally transform with secure, reliable, and scalable network and cloud solutions.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Monroe, LA
Founded
1930

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