Sr Counsel, Energy Products, APAC

Tesla is looking for a Senior Counsel, Energy Products (APAC), based in our Sydney or Melbourne offices to support the growth of our business in the Asia-Pacific region.

You will focus on retail energy, residential, distributed energy (including virtual power plants), consumer protection, and other related matters with an emphasis on our retail and residential energy businesses across Australia, New Zealand and the wider APAC region.

Our ideal candidate would have a background in renewable energy equipment sales and service, the National Electricity Retail Law and Rules, consumer law and consumer credit, administrative law and tribunal rules, product liability, supply chain, trade and logistics, and be passionate about delivering a world of amazing abundance.

This is an amazing opportunity for a proactive and entrepreneurial lawyer to work at a fast-growing and dynamic company that is at the forefront of the global energy transition sector.

- Provide advice on a wide variety of strategic regulatory and transactional matters for the Energy Products business around the APAC region, including commercial, utility, and consumer matters.
- Leading advice on the sale, installation and maintenance of various Tesla products (including Powerwall, Megapack and Megablock), solar and Supercharger, and on energy-related commodity trading and support the business as it seeks to grow at scale around the APAC region.
- Supporting on structuring and negotiating Energy Products sales, service and project finance and development-related transactions including equipment supply, construction, maintenance, lease, power purchase, software services, performance guarantee and warranty and commodity procurement and sales agreements for energy storage projects.
- Advise on new market entry, new product launches, and regulatory compliance for the Energy Products business around the APAC region.
- Support our International Corporate team with administering local subsidiary companies.
- Liaise with colleagues in support of consistency of contracts and risk allocation across the global Commercial business.

- Excellent academic credentials, preferably with a J.D. or high Honours degree from a top-ranked law school.
- A current Australian practising certificate.
- A minimum of 10 years’ post-qualification experience at a well-regarded law firm or comparable in-house experience at a company in the energy industry strongly preferred.
- Experience structuring and negotiating contracts across the spectrum of the retail, residential and distributed energy business cycle – from manufacture or business concept to delivery and beyond. Familiarity with trading norms and regulations a plus.
- A team player with the ability to proactively identify problems, drive initiatives forward, make complex cost/benefit assessments, and identify pragmatic/creative legal and business solutions.
- Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively and to juggle competing priorities in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
- A quick and flexible learner, intellectually curious, open-minded, adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity and risk, and excited by dynamic change.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to quickly earn the confidence of your colleagues and effectively communicate with people at all levels of the organization.
- High standards, impeccable integrity and ethics, unquestionable good judgment, well-honed analytical skills, superior oral and written communications skills, and a keen sense of humour.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive compensation package, Tesla Australia & New Zealand is pleased to offer the following benefits for permanent employees:

- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) - Purchase Tesla stock twice per year at a 15% discount
- Parental leave (no minimum employment period)
- Primary carers – 18 weeks at full pay or 36 weeks half pay
- Secondary carers – 6 weeks full pay

- Miscarriage leave - 10 days
- Employee Vehicle Loan Program
- Novated Leasing (AU only)
- Employee Vehicle Finance program (AU only) - Tesla subsidises your loan interest
- Well-being Fund – An annual allowance of $950 USD for all employees to support their well-being in ways that are meaningful to them
- Health insurance discounts (AU only)
- Bike to work – $10 per day if you cycle to work
- Employee Assistance Program - Free and confidential counselling for all staff and their families
- Annual Flu Vaccines
- Birthday Leave, Cultural Significance Leave and Volunteer Leave

Some eligibility criteria may apply, benefits detailed above are subject to change / withdrawal at Tesla’s discretion with no prior notice.