Senior Associate
Safewill
Date: 12 hours ago
City: Surry Hills, New South Wales
Contract type: Full time
Lead the Next Chapter of Estate Law with Safewill Legal
Safewill is Australia’s leading end-of-life tech platform, redefining how people access wills and estate services. Within our fast-growing startup, Safewill Legal pairs deep technical expertise with tech-driven efficiency and human-first service.
As a Senior Associate, you’ll steer complex client strategy, mentor rising talent, and shape the systems that let us scale impact nationwide.
Your Impact
Safewill Legal is a fast-growing, high-performing team that thrives on clarity, accountability, and momentum. We care deeply about doing things right - not just legally, but ethically, operationally, and for our clients.
As a senior in the team, you’ll be a key driver of our growth. You’ll have autonomy and impact, but also a strong foundation of systems, people and purpose around you. You’ll fit right in if you're someone who takes pride in your work, sees the bigger picture, and wants to play a meaningful role in building something new.
Why Safewill?
If you’re a commercially-savvy estate planning lawyer who wants autonomy, impact, and the chance to grow something bigger than a file list, we’d love to meet you.
Safewill is Australia’s leading end-of-life tech platform, redefining how people access wills and estate services. Within our fast-growing startup, Safewill Legal pairs deep technical expertise with tech-driven efficiency and human-first service.
As a Senior Associate, you’ll steer complex client strategy, mentor rising talent, and shape the systems that let us scale impact nationwide.
Your Impact
- Advise strategically on sophisticated estate plans for blended families, HNW clients, trusts, SMSFs, disability considerations and more.
- Draft & review complex Wills, testamentary trusts, Enduring Powers of Attorney and ancillary documents across every Australian jurisdiction.
- Own client relationships, lead advice conferences, communicate options with empathy, and deliver outcomes end-to-end.
- Supervise and mentor junior lawyers and paralegals, ensuring quality, accuracy and continuous growth.
- Refine our engine, improve precedents, templates, and workflows; test new automations; surface insights from our HubSpot CRM.
- Drive growth, balance legal excellence with commercial awareness, tracking metrics and identifying opportunities to expand our offering.
- 4-8 years PQE with significant experience in estate planning, testamentary trusts and related advisory work.
- Proficiency (or strong interest) in Probate & Administration matters.
- Confident facilitator of client strategy sessions; stellar interpersonal skills.
- Exceptional drafting and document-review rigour.
- Commercial mindset: comfortable juggling advisory, sales, and quality control.
- Collaborative leader who uplifts teammates and shares knowledge freely.
- Data-curious: willing to track performance and iterate for continuous improvement.
Safewill Legal is a fast-growing, high-performing team that thrives on clarity, accountability, and momentum. We care deeply about doing things right - not just legally, but ethically, operationally, and for our clients.
As a senior in the team, you’ll be a key driver of our growth. You’ll have autonomy and impact, but also a strong foundation of systems, people and purpose around you. You’ll fit right in if you're someone who takes pride in your work, sees the bigger picture, and wants to play a meaningful role in building something new.
Why Safewill?
- National influence: Your expertise shapes the country’s leading online wills platform and how estate planning is delivered at scale.
- Build, don’t just bill: Lead a function, coach juniors, refine processes, and architect the next generation of our services.
- Breadth & depth: From simple estates to SMSFs and multi-layered trust structures - learn broadly and fast.
- Supportive, fun culture: Tight-knit team, regular lunches, Friday drinks, spontaneous celebrations, and every classic startup perk.
If you’re a commercially-savvy estate planning lawyer who wants autonomy, impact, and the chance to grow something bigger than a file list, we’d love to meet you.
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