Legal Director - North America Job Description: Are you a strategic legal leader ready to make a real impact? We’re looking for a dynamic Legal Director to lead our North America Legal Team, ensuring best-in-class legal support while effectively managing regional legal risk and compliance. In this role, you’ll provide pragmatic, business-focused solutions to complex legal issues, offering strategic guidance across key areas—including contract negotiation, governance, policy development, litigation management, and regulatory compliance. You’ll foster a culture of collaboration and high performance, empowering a talented legal team to support critical business functions such as Sales, Marketing, Product, and Partnerships. As an integral part of the Sage NA Leadership Team, you’ll also drive legal excellence on a global scale—leading or contributing to multi-national legal initiatives and championing innovation, efficiency, and scalable legal solutions. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about delivering impactful legal strategies, we’d love to hear from you! This is a hybrid opportunity with 3 days based in our Ponce City office Atlanta. #LI-MS1 Key Responsibilities: What will you be doing? We are seeking an experienced legal professional to lead our North America Legal Team, fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture while providing strategic legal oversight. As a key member of the NA Leadership Team, you will contribute to leadership decisions, ensuring the execution of strategic priorities in a legally compliant manner. You will provide expert commercial, regulatory, and compliance advice, working closely with Corporate Legal Centres of Excellence and global legal teams on areas such as data privacy, intellectual property, M&A, and compliance. Your responsibilities will include drafting, negotiating, and advising on contracts to manage legal risk, drive commercial success, and deliver maximum value within agreed deadlines. You will proactively manage litigation and disputes to secure the best outcomes and oversee cost control with external advisers. Additionally, you will lead initiatives to streamline legal processes, simplify documentation, and improve multi-jurisdictional legal delivery. Ensuring legal compliance across NA operations, you will support internal governance frameworks and policies, aligning risk management with company tolerances. You will also play a critical role in high-value negotiations, including RFPs, complex enterprise and platform arrangements, and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) agreements. Furthermore, you will capture legal knowledge, build scalable legal assets, and drive efficiencies. Strong stakeholder management is essential, as you will develop relationships with business leaders, providing valuable legal support. You will also oversee regular legal training, including compliance topics such as the Code of Conduct, data privacy, and anti-bribery, while supporting key cross-functional initiatives. What are we looking for? We are looking for a dynamic and experienced legal leader with a proven track record in people management, coaching, and communication. You will excel at building strong relationships and influencing stakeholders across the business to effectively manage legal and commercial risks while delivering strategic outcomes. As a trusted business partner, you will provide high-quality, practical legal advice in a fast-paced, high-performance environment. With exceptional analytical, drafting, and negotiation skills, you will have extensive experience in complex commercial, technology, SaaS, and privacy matters. Your ability to apply deep legal expertise to solve complex commercial challenges will be crucial. You will embrace change, drive innovation, and seek continuous improvement in legal delivery to support business growth. A strategic thinker, you will focus on long-term objectives while leading and executing large legal initiatives, including cross-border matters. You will ensure legal compliance, policy implementation, and risk management within a business context while fostering a culture of innovation and efficiency. Experience in commercial litigation, compliance, and labour law is an advantage, as is a keen interest in technology, AI, and machine learning. A qualified attorney with at least two years of post-admission experience, you will thrive in a matrixed environment, thinking globally while delivering local impact. What’s in it for you? • Work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a year • On-going training and professional development • Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer through our Sage Foundation • Flexible work patterns and hybrid working Function: Legal Country: United States Office Location: Atlanta Work Place type: Hybrid Advert Working at Sage means you’re supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions. Our colleagues are the best of the best. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential. 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