Senior Legal Counsel - Americas

Overview

This position is for Senior Legal Counsel, Americas for the Electrification Service (ELSE) division. The role supports strategic and day-to-day legal needs across the Americas, anticipating business requirements, identifying emerging issues, and advising senior leaders and cross-functional teams.

The work model is remote; operating time zone will align closest with Eastern Time zone.

Responsibilities

• Advise business leaders across the Americas on legal risk, decision-making, and execution of strategic priorities, in coordination with relevant country, business area, and specialist counsel.
• Lead or support drafting, review, and negotiation of complex customer, supplier, service, subcontractor, channel partner, technology, and other commercial agreements across the Americas.
• Design scalable contract management processes (including playbooks, templates, and workflows) to improve efficiency and manage legal risk across high-volume transactions.
• Advise on tenders, contract risk reviews, claims, change orders, project execution, and dispute avoidance across 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 where appropriate.
• Provide strategic legal 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 divisions, business areas, and corporate functions as business needs require, 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. Counsel remain accountable for matters within assigned businesses, countries, or specialist areas unless responsibility is expressly reassigned.

Qualifications

Required

• 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; partner effectively with divisional, business area, regional, country, and specialist counsel; manage competing priorities; clarify ownership and scope; and advise senior stakeholders under time pressure.
• Strong commercial judgment and 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

• Experience with artificial intelligence (AI) tools (e.g., 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 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 ability to coordinate local advice where needed.
• Working knowledge of employment and human resources law in one or more Americas jurisdictions, including knowing when local specialist advice is required.

Work Authorization

• Candidates must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for the employer in the US.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary expected to pay between $163,500 and $261,600 annually.
• Eligible for a short-term incentive plan/annual bonus.

Benefits (for eligible US employees)

• Choice of 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 of 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 are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.

Location

Remote; operating time zone will align closest with Eastern Time zone.