Overview
This role serves as a key legal and strategic partner to a rapidly growing energy business unit focused on home, commercial, and fleet energy products and services. These include electric vehicle (EV) charging, stationary storage, energy management software, and grid services. The position requires providing innovative legal advice to support complex operational growth, retail, transactional, and risk management matters.
Responsibilities
Strategic Partnership and Business Planning
- Participate in strategy development and business planning, including new product launches, go-to-market strategies, and emerging business models such as home energy ecosystems, grid services, and public charging initiatives.
- Translate enterprise and business-unit strategies into practical legal frameworks and negotiation strategies that enable speed to market while managing risk.
- Identify regulatory, commercial, and operational risks and opportunities, recommending pragmatic solutions.
Commercial Transactions and Deal Leadership
- Draft, interpret, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including collaboration and strategic alliance agreements, supply, distribution, reseller agreements, EV charging and energy services contracts, and grid/utility-facing arrangements.
- Lead end-to-end deal processes, including issue spotting, risk assessment, negotiation, escalation, approvals, and implementation.
- Develop and maintain template agreements, playbooks, and fallback positions tailored to the business’s products, channels, and partners.
Operational Integration
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product, Software & Services, Sales & Marketing, Corporate Development, Finance, Operations, IT, and Compliance to integrate legal requirements into operations, customer journeys, and internal processes.
- Review and advise on marketing, advertising, and customer-facing communications to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, policies, and brand standards.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) or equivalent law degree from an accredited institution.
- Admission to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- Minimum of 5 years of legal experience focusing on complex commercial, technology, or M&A transactions, preferably in energy or technology sectors.
- Experience structuring and negotiating complex strategic relationships such as collaborations, co-development, co-marketing arrangements, or enterprise technology/platform deals.
- Ability to independently manage a high-volume, complex portfolio with limited supervision.
- Strong business acumen and problem-solving skills impacting business and functional objectives.
- Proven leadership in projects requiring coordination across multiple teams and functions.
- Exceptional communication skills, including explaining complex legal concepts to non-lawyers, presenting recommendations to senior leadership, and managing disagreements professionally.
- Demonstrated ability to build trust and strong working relationships across diverse stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in energy, utilities, or grid services (e.g., distributed energy resources, demand response, virtual power plants).
- Familiarity with EV charging infrastructure, e-mobility, or automotive/transportation sectors.
- Background in high-tech, software, data, or platform-based businesses.
- Experience supporting boards of directors or strong financial expertise is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $140,000 - $185,000, with actual offer dependent on relevant factors including geography.
- Bonus potential through an incentive pay program based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, and vehicle discounts.
Additional Information
- This role does not provide immigration-related sponsorship. Candidates requiring sponsorship now or in the future should not apply.
- The position is remote; however, candidates living within a specified radius of a company hub may be required to report onsite multiple times per week.
- Relocation benefits are not provided; relocation costs are the responsibility of the selected candidate.