Assoc General Counsel Mgr

Overview

This role provides legal counsel for an assigned departmental or functional area or within a defined area of law. With guidance from senior lawyers, you will advise management and associates on corporate and business issues, support governance and compliance efforts, and partner with business stakeholders to identify and address legal risks.

Responsibilities

• Serve as counsel for an assigned departmental or functional area or defined area of law.
• Provide legal advice and counsel to management and associates on corporate and business issues.
• Engage with business leaders to understand direction, changes, and objectives, and advise on potential legal issues or challenges.
• Enforce legal policies and procedures.
• With guidance or in partnership with senior lawyers, present training to internal clients on specified legal topics.
• Collaborate with supported Finance & Accounting, Sales & Sales Excellence, Corporate Operations, Engineering / Product Development, Marketing & Communications, and/or other teams to ensure product offerings, business dealings, and agreements are legally compliant and protective of organizational interests.

Supporting governance and compliance efforts:

• Work with supported stakeholders to help ensure understanding of and support for internal checks, controls, and related governance standards.
• Support governance functions and the creation of public filings.
• Support entity management and maintenance.
• Monitor legislative and agency pronouncements, publications, and activities.

Privacy and data regulation:

• Research, track, and update privacy and data regulation-related notices, policies, standards, guidelines, and processes.
• Work with internal teams to understand business objectives and address potential privacy issues and considerations.
• Advise internal teams to ensure compliance with privacy regulations.
• Assist with development of public policy-related position papers, presentations, and other documentation.

Intellectual property (IP):

• Participate in new product development process reviews to ascertain compliance with IP policies and methodologies and to develop IP for the organization.
• Participate in patent searches and evaluations in support of new product development.
• Support efforts to evaluate potential third-party infringement of organizational IP.
• Support senior lawyers in IP disputes and litigation.
• Participate in trademark searches in support of new marks/rebranding.

Employment and labor matters:

• Engage with HR teams and management to understand and help address employment and labor issues, including recruiting, hiring, associate relations, equal employment opportunity compliance, and issues associated with contingent workers.
• Support broader organizational policy development, evaluation, and related initiatives from an employment law/legal perspective.

Disputes, investigations, and litigation support:

• Support efforts to address disputes within designated area of responsibility, working with outside counsel and internal teams.
• Support internal investigations and manage administrative matters associated with litigation.
• Participate in and/or support subpoena response.
• Maintain accurate reporting of in-house litigation, disputes, subpoenas, and bankruptcy, including upcoming deadlines, matter statuses, opening and closing, and each matter submitted to outside counsel, defense matters, and judgments sent to collection.
• Support eDiscovery functions for cases.

Commercial agreements and operational legal topics:

• Help draft, negotiate, and interpret commercial contracts.
• In partnership with more senior counsel, review, advise on, and negotiate a variety of commercial contracts, including contracts covering software licensing, SaaS, professional services, and online terms and conditions.
• Partner with internal business associates to develop and execute action plans to resolve issues presented in contract negotiations.
• Provide advice on operational legal topics, including data strategy and data licensing.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree
• US Law Degree and 5–7 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Technology industry experience preferred

Additional Eligibility / Compliance Requirement

This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. To conform to U.S. export control regulations, the applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

Compensation & Benefits

Not specified in the provided job description.

Location

Not specified in the provided job description.