Legal Counsel

Are you a strategic Legal Counsel with a sharp commercial mindset, ready to navigate complexity and drive meaningful impact? Do you enjoy connecting legal strategy with results and partnering with teams across the organisation? If so, let's chat!

At PaperCut, we're looking for an experienced Legal Counsel to provide guidance across global compliance, commercial contracts, employment law, and IP. You'll work with teams in Product and Go To Market, to commercialise our products and services to help shape our approach to legal risk and governance.

This role offers flexibility and can be either part-time (4 days per week) or full-time (5 days per week), depending on what works best for the right candidate. We’re open to discussing the arrangement that suits you. The position is hybrid, with an expectation of working from our Melbourne office three days per week.

Some of the things you'll do…

• Keep PaperCut ahead of the curve by overseeing global regulatory changes (like GDPR, HIPPA, DORA, employment law, IP, ESG and commercial legislation) and advising on growth.

• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of contracts and agreements — from EULAs and Service level agreements to supplier and partner agreements — helping teams move forward with confidence.

• Collaborate with Product, Channel, and People & Culture teams to embed legal and compliance thinking into everyday decisions.

• Support our People team on employment and industrial compliance across APAC, EMEA, and the US — including contracts, disputes, and policy updates.

• Manage our IP protection strategy by maintaining and evolving our trademark register and advising on piracy or infringement matters.

• Contribute to business growth by providing sound risk management guidance and helping shape commercial strategies.

• Coach operational team members to recognise legal risks early and support capability building across the business.

A little bit about you...

• You're an experienced senior legal professional with either in-house or in private practice experience.

• You've worked across multiple regions and have an understanding of global compliance, commercial contracts, IP law, and employment legislation.

• You're commercially minded — you don't just manage risk, you look for opportunity.

• You enjoy working closely with cross-functional teams and have a knack for making complex legal concepts easy to understand, helping others bring a more commercial mindset to their day-to-day work

• You're assured in guiding external legal partners and can focus on what needs to stay in-house.

• You're always curious, and like to stay one step ahead, perfect for our ever evolving environment.

• You may have some mentoring or leadership experience, and you're excited to contribute to team development and performance.

What else can you expect from us?

• PaperCutters are eligible for an annual bonus where we Share the Success of our collective achievements.
• You receive generous leave options, including up to 18 weeks of parental leave.
• Empowered development options with a spend-as-you-like annual training budget.
• We're led by our values in everything we do - Caring, Honest, Intelligent and Nimble (CHIN).
• Our Camberwell office has free parking and unlimited coffee from our in-house espresso machine.
• Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging programmes are highly visible day-to-day.

More about PaperCut

We like to say we're the most exciting company in the most boring part of IT. We're an award-winning market leader in Print Management solutions.

Proudly B-Corp Certified, PaperCut helps hundreds of millions of people around the globe minimise waste while having a secure and easy printing experience. Simply put, our code saves trees, and in 25 years, we have saved 360,000 trees and counting. Now, through our Forest Positive programme, PaperCut Grows, we help customers turn their printed pages into newly planted trees.

Now is an exciting time to join PaperCut as we accelerate the transition of our product suite to cloud and beyond.

Our commitment to you
Our hiring process lets you show off the very best version of yourself while learning all about us at the same time. Our pinky promise is a candidate experience that's enjoyable, thorough, and fair. That's our way of inspiring the world's brightest minds to become PaperCutters.

As an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion, we proudly encourage people from all walks of life to apply (even tea drinkers). We welcome you to highlight any alternative working arrangements you might need during your application.

PaperCut is a proud 2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to responding to every applicant.

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