Deputy General Counsel (Sr Director), Legal Center of Excellence

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About the Team

The mission of the Global Legal Services (GLS) team is to enhance the Legal organization’s support for Workday by focusing on simplicity, speed, scale, and skills, thereby accelerating strategic growth and improving the customer experience. The team’s focus areas include developing business strategy for the Legal organization and operational alignment with larger Workday initiatives. Additionally, the team leads ground-breaking efforts in process optimization, resourcing, and risk management, while enabling operational efficiencies in technology management and data harmonization. The GLS team also focuses on developing skills-based training for the organization and providing solutions through effective project management, strategic analytics, vendor management, and budget coordination.

About the Role

The Legal Compliance and Corporate Affairs organization seeks a highly motivated Senior Director & Deputy General Counsel to join our Global Legal Services Center of Excellence. This role will be critical in driving transformation to streamline legal services delivery and operations across the legal department with a focus on scale and efficiency. The successful candidate will have a track record of successfully driving transformation, as well as a deep understanding of the commercial, vendor, partner and strategic contracting model needs of a Fortune 500 cloud software provider, and will possess extensive experience in drafting, designing and delivering on strategic transformation initiatives, measuring success through metrics, and applying a strategic approach to risk management.

The Senior Director & Deputy General Counsel will need to possess exceptional negotiation and drafting skills, outstanding business acumen that enables them to be an effective and persuasive influencer at all levels of business and legal stakeholders. They will have a consistent track record as an innovative change agent to drive cultural change in how we operate and to use their legal expertise and finely honed judgment to take smart risks in developing innovative, modern contracting models, streamlined end to end processes leveraging AI, CLM and other automation tools to simplify and scale contracting for a $20 billing dollar company. 

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with business executives and key business stakeholders as a strategic adviser and tactical influencer to provide business-minded legal advice and guidance on a broad range of complex legal, business and strategic issues as they arise

• Transform, design and refine contracting models, workflows, and department processes to achieve optimal efficiency and scale, analyzing complexity, effort and risk

• Develop a modern contracting strategy and plan for streamlined end to end contracting processes for customer, partner, inbound and professional services processes and provide strategic direction to the infrastructure transactional councils and co-lead execution of the plan

• Partner with revenue recognition, security, privacy, RAI, compliance, sales operations, pricing, technology operations, and other st