Senior Legal Counsel

Location: Singapore, Singapore Job ID: R0144570 Date Posted: 2026-09-28 Company Name: HITACHI ASIA LTD. Profession (Job Category): Legal, Compliance & Audit Job Schedule: Full time Remote: No Job Description: Job Summary We are seeking an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join our Legal team. This role combines traditional legal practice — advisory work and contract review — with a forward-looking mandate to modernize how the legal function manages knowledge and leverages artificial intelligence. The successful candidate will be a hands-on legal practitioner who is also comfortable partnering with technology teams to build AI-driven tools that make the legal function faster, more consistent, and more scalable. Key Responsibilities Legal Advisory & Contract Review Provide timely, practical legal advice to business units on commercial, corporate, regulatory, and operational matters. Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of contracts (commercial agreements, vendor/procurement contracts, NDAs, partnership and service agreements, etc.), identifying and mitigating legal risk. Support corporate governance matters, regulatory compliance, and dispute resolution as required. Liaise with external counsel on specialized or high-risk matters. Keep abreast of relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards, and advise the business on their implications. Legal Knowledge Management Own the organization, structuring, and governance of the legal team's knowledge base — precedents, templates, playbooks, policies, past advice, and contract clause libraries. Establish taxonomies, tagging conventions, and version-control practices that make legal content consistent, searchable, and "AI-ready." Audit existing legal resources for accuracy, redundancy, and gaps, and lead efforts to clean up and standardize documentation. Define data governance and confidentiality protocols for legal knowledge assets, particularly where they will be used to train or ground AI tools. AI Enablement for Legal Functions Partner with IT/technology, data, and innovation teams to identify use cases where AI can support or expedite legal work (e.g., contract review assistance, clause extraction, legal research, first-draft generation, query triage). Assist in designing, testing, and refining AI agents/tools (e.g., LLM-based assistants) built on the legal team's curated knowledge base, ensuring outputs are legally sound and appropriately scoped. Develop prompts, guardrails, and review workflows to ensure AI-assisted work products meet the required standard of legal accuracy and are subject to appropriate human oversight. Monitor performance and risk of AI tools used in the legal function, and recommend improvements or escalate concerns as needed. Help train legal and business colleagues on the appropriate and responsible use of AI tools in legal workflows. (empty)