Senior Legal Counsel / Legal Counsel (12-Month Fixed Term Contract)

About EROAD

A career with EROAD offers the unique opportunity to work in a fast-growing organisation that is at the forefront of intelligent transport solutions - enhancing road safety, improving productivity, and reducing environmental impact. EROAD’s mission is to deliver intelligence you can trust, for a better world tomorrow. We’re looking for a Legal Counsel or Senior Legal Counsel to join our highly engaged legal team for a 12-month parental leave cover. This is a great opportunity to work on meaningful, cross-jurisdictional legal matters in a fast-paced technology business.

About the Role

Working closely with the General Counsel and Legal Team, you’ll support EROAD’s strategic and commercial goals across New Zealand, Australia, and North America.

You’ll provide legal support across a broad range of matters, including contracts, disputes, privacy, risk, and intellectual property, while partnering with teams across the business on complex, cross-jurisdictional matters.

In this role you will:

• Draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts

• Support major business transactions

• Manage disputes and pre-litigation matters, including working with external counsel where needed

• Support privacy and risk compliance across New Zealand, Australia and the US

• Manage and maintain EROAD’s intellectual property portfolio

• Triage legal requests through the team helpdesk and prioritise matters effectively

• Support the development of corporate policies, procedures and programmes

• Prepare training materials and provide legal guidance to the business

• Partner with cross-functional teams on a wide range of commercial, product, privacy, software and public company matters

What you’ll bring

You’ll be a commercially minded legal professional who enjoys working at pace, uses sound judgment, and can provide clear, practical advice in a dynamic environment.

• LLB degree or higher

• 6+ years PQE in-house or in private practice, ideally with experience in commercial and technology contracts

• 10+ years PQE for Senior Legal Counsel level

• Hold, or be applying for, a current practising certificate

• Strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to provide clear, concise legal advice to senior stakeholders

• Commercially pragmatic approach, with the ability to balance legal risk and business objectives

• Proactive, adaptable and able to work independently

• Highly organised, detail-focused, and comfortable managing multiple priorities

• Comfortable using AI and emerging technologies to improve efficiency and solve problems effectively

• Experience building AI agents for legal use would be highly regarded, but is not essential

Why you’ll love working at EROAD

EROAD is a true Kiwi success story in the tech sector! Publicly listed since 2012, we’re represented on the NZX and ASX and continue to grow rapidly across New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, and the USA.

At EROAD, we value diversity and are proud to be a multicultural organisation. We invest in our people through employee recognition programs, EAP offerings, and continuous learning opportunities.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do - we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and belonging where you can bring your ideas to life. Join EROAD and be part of a purpose-driven organisation that’s shaping the future of connected transport - we can’t wait to hear from you.