Director & Associate General Counsel – Legal Transformation

Job Description

Associate General Counsel | Workday

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Workday, located in Scottsdale, Arizona, with additional US locations available. Workday is a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, shaping the future of work. This role is crucial for transforming the legal department’s support for the business, streamlining service delivery for global scale. You will apply expertise in commercial contracting and legal technology to design efficient, modern processes, directly impacting how the organization manages risk and supports strategic growth.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Hybrid
• Location: Hybrid – Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
• Pay: $188900–$335500 yearly
• Team: Global Legal Services (GLS) team, Center of Excellence
• Mission: 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.
• Tech Stack: AI, CLM capabilities, automation tools

What You’ll Actually Do
• Transform: Transform contracting models, workflows, and department processes to achieve optimal efficiency and scale, analyzing complexity, effort, and risk.
• Implement: Implement a modern contracting strategy for streamlined end-to-end contracting processes for customer, partner, inbound, and professional services.
• Develop: Develop and maintain transactional infrastructure governance policies and processes and provide direction to the infrastructure transactional councils.
• Advise: Serve as a trusted advisor to cross-functional leaders and advise on a range of complex legal, business, and strategic issues.
• Champion: Act as a champion for organizational change and deliver change management to executives, legal team, and cross-functional audiences.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Juris Doctor (J.D.) Degree and membership in at least one state bar, with a career level equivalent to a Director and Associate General Counsel.
• Experience: 10+ years as a practicing attorney in a law firm or in-house/public sector legal department, including 5+ years in-house legal experience focused on commercial transactions and 5+ years in modern contract drafting, legal transformation initiatives, and contract lifecycle management (CLM) concepts.
• Skills: Deep understanding of commercial, vendor, partner, and strategic contracting model needs for a cloud software provider; excellent contract drafting and negotiation skills for large enterprise organizations; proven track record of advising cross-functional leaders; analytical problem-solving and identifying and applying workflow automation tools; ability to work independently in an agile environment.
• Bonus: Experience with professional services, partner programs, and inbound/vendor contracting.