Telstra

Telstra is an iconic Australian company. We are a company that looks to the world of tomorrow. We’re on the forefront of the communications revolution and it’s an exciting place to be.

As Telstra evolves to meet the challenges of a dynamic industry, opportunities abound, making it an ideal organisation to further your legal career. Bring your enthusiasm, skills and knowledge to the global team, dramatically changing the services we provide our customers and leading Australia into the future.

For more information on Telstra, please visit our careers site: www.careers.telstra.com

What opportunities are available at Telstra Legal Services?

Managing the legal affairs of an organisation as large and complex as Telstra is varied, challenging and rewarding.

People hold a variety of legal roles at Telstra:

• Legal Counsel
• Supervising Counsel who have people management or major portfolio accountability
• General Counsel who lead our business unit legal teams

 We mainly recruit at the Legal Counsel level.

Our lawyers have exposure to every aspect of Telstra’s activity including:

• Marketing and advertising
• Product development and launches
• Sales agreements
• IT and networks
• Corporate
• Dispute resolution

Why join Telstra?

Respected Leadership

The legal team is lead by a very experienced senior management team who have all spent many years in private practice and in-house teams, and are experts in their fields.

Quality Work

As a world leading telecommunications company we offer challenging and engaging work. Telstra impacts the lives of Australians more than any other company.

Close to Business Decisions

Our legal teams are aligned with Telstra’s business units. Our lawyers join client meetings and drive initiatives across the business. We aim to be involved at all stages of a project and follow through to implementation.

Flexible Working Arrangements

We employ a diverse team with different family obligations and lifestyles and cater for a wide range of work arrangements and employment conditions.

Autonomy and Control over Work

Lawyers are directly responsible for meeting the needs of their clients and are largely autonomous in managing their practice.

Benchmarked Remuneration 

Our aim is to pay fairly and properly relative to other Australian in-house roles (and with an eye to the law firms as well.)

Large Collegiate Team

We have a large team of lawyers plus support staff spread out geographically across Australia. We maintain great communication within the group and there is a real sense of team and working together.

Other reasons for joining Telstra:

• In-house and law-firm provided learning and development opportunities
• No time sheets
• The ability to get involved in community contribution initiatives
• Opportunities to move around the legal team and into commercial roles
• We encourage and celebrate diversity at Telstra, including in terms of gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Over 2/3 of the legal team and over 1/2 of our legal senior management team are women

For more information please visit our careers site:

www.careers.telstra.com/Why-work-here.aspx

What benefits can you look forward to?

At Telstra you will be rewarded for good performance which is recognised through our performance incentives. As part of the team you’ll also enjoy discounts on Telstra products and services, access to salary sacrifice arrangements and to a wide range of programs designed to support you and help you achieve balance between your work and personal life.

Telstra has arrangements with a number of other organisations to give you discounted rates on a range of products and services. 

Visit the benefits page on our careers site to find out more:

www.careers.telstra.com/Why-work-here/Benefits.aspx