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Principal Corporate Counsel

Saudi Arabia

Principal Corporate Counsel

Multiple Locations, Saudi Arabia


Date posted
Sep 18, 2025
Job number
1854009
Work site
0 days / week in-office - remote
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Legal & Corporate Affairs
Discipline
Legal Counsel
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Turn experience into opportunity. Leverage your accomplishments to get the kind of employment you’ve always wanted as a part of the Corporate, External and Legal Affairs’ Deal Team: cutting edge issues, world class clients and strategic initiatives all with the collaboration and support of a global team of seasoned professionals. If you are ready to work directly with business leaders to solve problems, drive change, design the future and delight our customers, then a career with the Microsoft Global Deal Team is for you.

The OMIT Middle East Deal Team OMIT within the Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) department has an immediate opening for a Principal Corporate Counsel on a team of lawyers that prides itself on collaboration, learning, energy, and creating wins for Microsoft and its customers. Your primary responsibility will be supporting business teams that are responsible for pursuing and closing some of the most strategic and complex commercial transactions across the EMEA region. In this role, you will advise and work with a wide range of internal multidisciplinary stakeholders, our customers and partners and our outside counsels to enable strategic transactions with Microsoft’s most important customers who are rapidly transforming in this GenAI era. As a part of the global CELA Deal Team, you will also have the opportunity to help evolve how we work to deliver scaled legal services to accelerate the business outcomes Microsoft and its customers are driving.

This role will likely involve some regional travel.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications
  • Juris Doctorate Degree or international equivalent degree.
  • Active license to practice law in a jurisdiction and capable of meeting admission requirements in relevant jurisdiction.
    • Or equivalent experience
  • Demonstrable experience in commercial and corporate law.
  • This role requires fluency in written, reading, and conversational Arabic and English as all business operations as well as customer communications are conducted in English and Arabic.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Relevant experience as a practicing attorney in law firm or in-house roles specializing in complex transactions, including technology transactions, M&A, business development, or related work managing complex transactions involving multiple stakeholders.
  • Orchestration skills, with a demonstrated history of successfully advising on large-scale, nuanced transactions that involve multiple strategic, operational, and legal dimensions and the requirement to meet deadlines in the face of competing priorities.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and bias for action in a fast-paced, highly matrixed environment with sound judgment incorporating legal analysis, a pragmatic approach, and consideration of business goals, risk tolerance, and stakeholder priorities.
  • Team player who enjoys partnering with cross-functional teams to solve complex issues, invest in others, and work collaboratively to generate consensus across diverse points of view.
  • Enjoys learning new concepts, tackling cutting-edge legal issues, thrives amidst change and exhibits a growth mindset.
  • Additional language skills would be a plus.

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Responsibilities

  • You will provide legal support for complex technology transactions by developing negotiation strategies, solving problems creatively, and coordinating across CELA and business team subject matter experts. You will offer strategic advice on newly emerging information technology business models, including AI, while staying updated on rules, regulations, and other statutory requirements relating to Microsoft business.
  • You will draft, negotiate, and structure integrated agreements encompassing sales, procurement, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, investments, and other innovative business models, addressing legal issues such as commercial contracts, intellectual property, and data protection.
  • You will utilize outside counsel effectively and guide escalations to appropriate senior leaders to take smart and well-informed risks to meet customer needs.
  • You will communicate in ways that create clarity and advance negotiations and projects to achieve closure of open issues. You will provide practical and strategic advice to business clients and CELA colleagues.
  • You will ensure a coordinated legal voice through broad collaboration across groups, management and leaders. This will involve organizing and simplifying complex issues and recommending clear courses of action.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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