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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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Which companies sponsor visas for legal directors in Texas?
Large corporations with significant Texas operations are the most active sponsors for legal director roles. Energy companies headquartered in Houston, such as ExxonMobil, Chevron Phillips Chemical, and Halliburton, have sponsored senior legal positions. Dallas-based firms including AT&T, Celanese, and Texas Instruments also have established legal departments that have supported work visa sponsorship for experienced attorneys in leadership roles.
Which visa types are most common for legal director roles in Texas?
The H-1B is the most common visa for legal directors in Texas, given that the role typically requires a Juris Doctor or equivalent foreign law degree qualifying it as a specialty occupation. The O-1A is an option for attorneys with demonstrated exceptional achievement. Senior hires transferred from a foreign affiliate may qualify for the L-1A intracompany transferee category, which applies to managers and executives.
Which cities in Texas have the most legal director sponsorship jobs?
Houston leads due to its concentration of energy, petrochemical, and healthcare corporations, each of which maintains substantial in-house legal teams. Dallas-Fort Worth follows closely, driven by financial services, telecommunications, and technology employers. Austin has grown steadily as major tech companies have expanded their Texas headquarters, creating demand for in-house legal leadership at companies including Apple, Google, and Tesla.
How to find legal director visa sponsorship jobs in Texas?
Migrate Mate is specifically built for international candidates seeking visa sponsorship in the United States. You can filter directly by state and role to see legal director positions in Texas where employers have a demonstrated history of sponsoring work visas. This removes the uncertainty of applying to roles where sponsorship is unlikely, saving significant time for candidates targeting in-house legal leadership positions.
Are there any state-specific considerations for legal directors pursuing sponsorship in Texas?
Legal directors in Texas typically need to be licensed to practice law in the state or qualify for in-house counsel registration, which has its own requirements for foreign-licensed attorneys. The Department of Labor prevailing wage determination for legal directors in major Texas metros is based on local wage surveys, and Houston, Dallas, and Austin each fall into different wage tiers. Employers must certify the offered position meets the applicable prevailing wage before filing an H-1B petition.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored legal director jobs in Texas?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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