Senior Legal Counsel - Americas

Overview

The organization is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel, Americas for its Electrification Service (ELSE) division. This role supports strategic priorities by advising business leaders, managing legal risk, and helping drive practical solutions across complex commercial, compliance, disputes, employment, and strategic transaction matters across jurisdictions in the Americas.

This position reports to Division General Counsel ELSE.

Work Model

• Remote (operating time zone aligns closest with Eastern Time)

Responsibilities

• Advise business leaders across the Americas on legal risk, decision-making, and execution of strategic priorities, coordinating with relevant country, business area, and specialist counsel.
• Lead or support drafting, review, and negotiation of complex agreements across the Americas, including customer, supplier, service, subcontractor, channel partner, technology, and other commercial agreements.
• Design scalable contract management processes (including playbooks, templates, and workflows) to improve efficiency and manage legal risk in high-volume transactions.
• Advise on tenders, contract risk reviews, claims, change orders, project execution, and dispute avoidance in service-intensive markets, including industrial services, utilities, data centers, infrastructure, and renewables.
• Manage litigation, arbitration, pre-litigation claims, settlements, and external counsel, including matter strategy, budgets, reporting, and quality assurance.
• Advise on employment and human resources matters, including performance management, investigations, terminations, reorganizations, immigration, and cross-border workforce issues, coordinating with specialists when appropriate.
• Provide strategic counsel on mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, divestitures, joint ventures, and restructuring activities globally, including deal structuring, due diligence, and post-closing integration support.
• Support other divisional legal needs as required, with priorities and matter ownership coordinated through relevant Legal & Integrity leadership and existing coverage teams.
• Collaborate across divisions, countries, specialist teams, and regions under agreed coverage models, matter-allocation principles, and escalation paths.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) with active bar admission in at least one relevant jurisdiction.
• Minimum 10 years of in-house or law firm experience supporting industrial, engineering, technology, construction, or services businesses across multiple legal disciplines and jurisdictions in a multinational company.
• Ability to succeed in a highly collaborative environment with appropriate autonomy, including partnering effectively with divisional, business area, regional, country, and specialist counsel; managing competing priorities; clarifying ownership and scope; and advising senior stakeholders under time pressure.
• Strong commercial judgment with substantial experience in commercial contracts, disputes, strategic transactions, and cross-border matters, including the ability to identify material risks, develop practical options, support timely business decisions, and engage specialists when needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI tools such as Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or Harvey; or a demonstrated willingness to learn and quickly build AI fluency.
• Strong knowledge of anti-bribery and anti-corruption requirements relevant across the Americas, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and experience supporting internal investigations.
• Knowledge of professional, contractor, electrical licensing, and related regulatory requirements in one or more Americas jurisdictions, with the ability to coordinate local advice where needed.
• Working knowledge of employment and human resources law in one or more Americas jurisdictions, with the ability to identify when local specialist advice is required.
• Work authorization that would permit the candidate to work in the US.

Compensation & Benefits

Base Pay and Incentive

• Expected pay between $163,500 and $261,600 annually (base salary determined by qualifications and experience).
• Eligible for a short-term incentive plan/annual bonus.

Benefits for Eligible US Employees (summary)

• Health, Life & Disability

  • Choice between two medical plan options: a PPO plan called the Copay Plan or a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
  • Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
  • Vision benefit
  • Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
  • Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
  • Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
  • Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
  • Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.
  • Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance)
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
  • Employee discount program

• Retirement

  • 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
  • Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

• Time Off

  • 11 paid holidays
  • Salaried exempt positions provided vacation under a permissive time away policy

Equal Employment Opportunity

The employer is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to protected characteristics.

Location

• Remote; operating time zone aligns closest with Eastern Time.