Legal Director Jobs in Texas
Legal Director jobs in Texas are in strong demand, concentrated in energy, technology, healthcare, and financial services sectors, with openings for candidates from newly promoted general counsel deputies through seasoned senior legal executives. Houston, Dallas, and Austin anchor most of the hiring, where established employers like ExxonMobil, AT&T, and Baylor Scott and White Health maintain large legal departments. Corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and litigation management are the most sought-after specialties across Texas listings. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Job Description
Position Title: Sr. Legal Director, Commercial Contracting (Global Accounts / Hyperscale)
Location: Dallas, TX
Your Role
This senior leadership role sits within Digital Realty’s global Legal, Risk, Sustainability & Compliance (LRSC) organization and leads the North America Legal Commercial function supporting Global Accounts and Hyperscale customers. As the primary legal advisor to the Global Accounts Sales team, you will guide complex commercial transactions—including large-scale data center leases, MSAs, SLAs, and multi-jurisdictional agreements—while partnering closely with Hyperscale Development & Leasing on major leasing initiatives across joint ventures and investment fund assets. This position requires a proactive, business-oriented legal leader who brings strong judgment, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced global environment.
What You’ll Do
- Draft, negotiate, and advise on complex, multi-jurisdictional data center agreements, including MSAs, colocation agreements, leases, license agreements, and service agreements.
- Lead legal support for hyperscale leasing transactions, including negotiations involving joint venture and fund assets.
- Serve as the senior legal advisor to the Global Accounts Sales team on high-value commercial transactions.
- Partner with Design, Engineering & Construction, Portfolio Management, and Sales to align contractual terms with project delivery, customer requirements, and operational readiness while mitigating risk.
- Advise internal stakeholders on negotiation strategy, customer positioning, and risk alignment with Digital Realty’s commercial objectives.
- Provide legal insight on expansions, renewals, capital improvements, and portfolio initiatives that enhance customer and asset value.
- Support portfolio management and property operations on customer issues, audits, escalations, and major projects.
- Support executive-level engagement with customers, investors, and joint venture partners.
- Lead, develop, and mentor the North America Legal Commercial team for Global Accounts & Hyperscale customers.
- Drive continuous improvement of templates, playbooks, and legal processes to increase efficiency and accelerate deal execution.
What You’ll Need
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited U.S. law school; admitted in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and in good standing.
- 15–20 years of commercial legal experience (law firm and/or in-house).
- Extensive experience negotiating complex commercial agreements, including data center leases, MSAs, license agreements, and technology-related service agreements.
- Direct experience negotiating with hyperscale/cloud providers; background in technology, cloud services, or data centers strongly preferred.
- Strong commercial judgment with the ability to align legal guidance to business objectives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and professionalism in cross-functional interactions.
- Highly proactive, hands-on, and solution-oriented approach.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage deadlines, prioritize competing demands, and maintain accuracy.
- Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking capabilities.
- Proven leadership experience managing, motivating, and developing legal professionals; ability to operate effectively in a global environment with some travel required.
A Bit About Us
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
A Bit About Our Team
Legal
Our Legal team works in a highly complex global business sector with a diverse range of local, regional and international organizations. From ensuring compliance in different jurisdictions to supporting business teams with customer and supplier contracts, we’re involved in a variety of projects. Working in a dynamic commercial environment, we collaborate with colleagues across different departments and always have a new challenge waiting for us.
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals—they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.
Benefits:
For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.
Job Description
Position Title: Sr. Legal Director, Commercial Contracting (Global Accounts / Hyperscale)
Location: Dallas, TX
Your Role
This senior leadership role sits within Digital Realty’s global Legal, Risk, Sustainability & Compliance (LRSC) organization and leads the North America Legal Commercial function supporting Global Accounts and Hyperscale customers. As the primary legal advisor to the Global Accounts Sales team, you will guide complex commercial transactions—including large-scale data center leases, MSAs, SLAs, and multi-jurisdictional agreements—while partnering closely with Hyperscale Development & Leasing on major leasing initiatives across joint ventures and investment fund assets. This position requires a proactive, business-oriented legal leader who brings strong judgment, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced global environment.
What You’ll Do
- Draft, negotiate, and advise on complex, multi-jurisdictional data center agreements, including MSAs, colocation agreements, leases, license agreements, and service agreements.
- Lead legal support for hyperscale leasing transactions, including negotiations involving joint venture and fund assets.
- Serve as the senior legal advisor to the Global Accounts Sales team on high-value commercial transactions.
- Partner with Design, Engineering & Construction, Portfolio Management, and Sales to align contractual terms with project delivery, customer requirements, and operational readiness while mitigating risk.
- Advise internal stakeholders on negotiation strategy, customer positioning, and risk alignment with Digital Realty’s commercial objectives.
- Provide legal insight on expansions, renewals, capital improvements, and portfolio initiatives that enhance customer and asset value.
- Support portfolio management and property operations on customer issues, audits, escalations, and major projects.
- Support executive-level engagement with customers, investors, and joint venture partners.
- Lead, develop, and mentor the North America Legal Commercial team for Global Accounts & Hyperscale customers.
- Drive continuous improvement of templates, playbooks, and legal processes to increase efficiency and accelerate deal execution.
What You’ll Need
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited U.S. law school; admitted in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and in good standing.
- 15–20 years of commercial legal experience (law firm and/or in-house).
- Extensive experience negotiating complex commercial agreements, including data center leases, MSAs, license agreements, and technology-related service agreements.
- Direct experience negotiating with hyperscale/cloud providers; background in technology, cloud services, or data centers strongly preferred.
- Strong commercial judgment with the ability to align legal guidance to business objectives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and professionalism in cross-functional interactions.
- Highly proactive, hands-on, and solution-oriented approach.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage deadlines, prioritize competing demands, and maintain accuracy.
- Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking capabilities.
- Proven leadership experience managing, motivating, and developing legal professionals; ability to operate effectively in a global environment with some travel required.
A Bit About Us
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
A Bit About Our Team
Legal
Our Legal team works in a highly complex global business sector with a diverse range of local, regional and international organizations. From ensuring compliance in different jurisdictions to supporting business teams with customer and supplier contracts, we’re involved in a variety of projects. Working in a dynamic commercial environment, we collaborate with colleagues across different departments and always have a new challenge waiting for us.
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals—they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.
Benefits:
For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.
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Legal Director Job Market in Texas
A snapshot from current Texas openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Alvarez & Marsal7
- Houston Methodist6
- Eli Lilly5
- Morgan Stanley5
- Citi4
Top Industries Hiring
- Education33
- Healthcare & Medical Services24
- Consulting & Professional Services21
- Banking & Financial Services16
- Construction & Real Estate16
What Texas Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in legal director jobs across Texas.
- Active Texas State Bar membership or eligibility for Texas bar admission required
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school required
- Minimum of ten years of legal experience with progressive management responsibility
- Demonstrated experience overseeing litigation, contracts, and regulatory compliance functions
- Prior experience leading and developing in-house legal teams or outside counsel relationships
- Strong knowledge of Texas business law, employment law, or industry-specific regulatory frameworks
Legal Director Jobs in Texas: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a legal director in Texas?
Becoming a legal director in Texas requires an active Texas law license, which means passing the Texas Bar Examination administered by the State Bar of Texas and satisfying its character and fitness requirements. Most legal directors hold a Juris Doctor and spend several years advancing through associate, senior counsel, or assistant general counsel roles before stepping into a director-level position. Experience in a specialized practice area relevant to the employer's industry, such as energy, healthcare, or technology, meaningfully accelerates the path.
How much do legal directors make in Texas?
Legal directors in Texas earn a median of about $154,200 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $79,340 for the lowest 10% to over $349,490 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire legal directors in Texas?
Employers hiring legal directors in Texas right now include Alvarez & Marsal, Houston Methodist, and Eli Lilly, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Texas's concentration of Fortune 500 headquarters, major health systems, and energy companies means in-house legal director openings are consistently available across a range of industries and organization sizes.
Which Texas cities have the most legal director jobs?
Dallas, Houston, and Austin have the most legal director openings in Texas. Houston leads because of its dense concentration of energy, petrochemical, and international trade companies with substantial in-house legal needs, while Dallas draws heavily from financial services, technology, and corporate headquarters, and Austin's rapid growth in tech and life sciences has steadily increased demand for senior legal leadership.
Are there remote legal director jobs in Texas?
Yes, but they're less common than in purely analytical roles because legal directors typically need to be present for board meetings, executive consultations, and team oversight. About 22% of legal director openings tied to Texas are remote or hybrid as of June 2026, reflecting a market that accommodates flexibility without fully detaching the role from the office. Work that is most often done remotely includes contract review, policy drafting, and outside counsel coordination.
How can I get hired as a legal director in Texas with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is to secure an in-house counsel or assistant general counsel position at a large Texas employer and build toward a director role from within. Major Texas health systems like the University of Texas System and large energy companies often hire staff attorneys and senior attorneys who grow into leadership. Earning a Texas law license, developing expertise in a high-demand area like regulatory compliance or commercial contracts, and taking on supervision responsibilities in your current role are the credentials that make the transition most credible.
Where can I find and apply to legal director jobs in Texas?
You can find and apply to legal director jobs in Texas on Migrate Mate, which lists current Texas openings updated regularly. Find the roles that fit your experience and specialization, then apply directly to the employers posting them.
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