Director - Legal AI
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About the Role
DAMAC Digital is seeking a Director-level legal leader to own SLA negotiation for GPUaaS and Necloud contracts, chip procurement, data centre services, and export control compliance.
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Responsibilities
- Own SLA negotiation across GPUaaS and Necloud contracts — uptime, downtime reporting, service credits, remediation
- Provide end to end legal ownership of chip procurement, data centre services, and enterprise platform agreements
- Manage export control and trade compliance across cross border AI hardware and infrastructure transactions
- Build a contract management framework to handle high volume, high complexity commercial activity at pace
- Provide legal counsel that enables commercial decisions
Requirements
- 15+ years post qualification experience with technology, AI infrastructure, cloud, or hardware procurement specialism
- Demonstrable experience negotiating SLA driven contracts for GPU, cloud, or data centre environments
- Experience with export controls and cross border trade compliance, particularly US origin technology
- In house experience in a high growth or transformation stage technology business
- Track record of building legal frameworks and playbooks that scale
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The Opportunity
- DAMAC Digital is one of the most ambitious AI infrastructure plays in the region, at scale, seeking a Director level legal leader.
What You Will Own
- SLA negotiation across GPUaaS and Necloud contracts — uptime, downtime reporting, service credits, remediation.
- End to end legal ownership of chip procurement, data centre services, and enterprise platform agreements.
- Export control and trade compliance across cross border AI hardware and infrastructure transactions.
- A contract management framework built to handle high volume, high complexity commercial activity at pace.
- Legal counsel that enables commercial decisions — not one that delays them.
The Environment
- DAMAC Digital operates within the DAMAC Group — a multi billion dollar enterprise with assets across real estate, hospitality, and technology.
- You will work directly with senior commercial and technology stakeholders, across multi jurisdictional transactions.
Ideal Background
- 15+ years post qualification, with a technology, AI infrastructure, cloud, or hardware procurement specialism.
- Demonstrable experience negotiating SLA driven contracts for GPU, cloud, or data centre environments.
- Export controls and cross border trade compliance — particularly US origin technology.
- In house experience in a high growth or transformation stage technology business.
- Track record of building legal frameworks and playbooks that scale without requiring external counsel on routine matters.
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