Associate General Counsel, Litigation, Employment, and Compliance

About the role

The successful individual will need to be able to work independently and manage a high volume of legal assignments. The role is ideal for someone who loves being a lawyer but also enjoys business, appreciates process orientation, makes risk-adjusted decisions, loves winning, and accepts accountability.

Responsibilities

• Serving as a senior legal advisor to executive leadership on litigation exposure, employment risks, enterprise compliance, and privacy/security matters;
• Managing and overseeing litigation, disputes, and pre-litigation matters, including supervising outside counsel and coordinating legal strategy;
• Providing legal counsel on employment law matters, including employee relations, workplace policies, investigations, and compliance with federal, state, and local labor laws;
• Leading and enhancing the company’s global corporate compliance program, including code of conduct governance, policy framework management, risk assessments, training, communications, and program enhancements aligned with regulatory expectations;
• Overseeing ethics and investigations processes, including hotline administration, internal investigations, remediation efforts, disciplinary coordination, responding to government inquiries, and managing interactions with regulators and enforcement agencies;
• Ensuring compliance across key enterprise risk areas, including anti-corruption, competition, conflicts of interest, insider trading, third-party due diligence, trade compliance, and other compliance obligations;
• Partnering with Security, IT, HR, Internal Audit, and operational leadership teams on cybersecurity, privacy, AI governance, and information governance matters.

Qualifications

• JD from an accredited law school and in good standing with a state bar association;
• 10+ years as a practicing attorney with broad experience in general legal services, including litigation, compliance, ethics, employment, regulatory compliance, privacy, and commercial matters;
• Experience designing, administering, or materially supporting corporate compliance programs, including policies, risk assessments, training, hotline administration, investigations, remediation, and reporting;
• Working knowledge of anti-corruption, anti-trust, insider trading, conflicts of interest, third-party due diligence, trade compliance, and other enterprise compliance risk areas;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex legal issues in a simple, understandable manner with colleagues of varying legal knowledge across the company;
• Ability to work well in time-sensitive situations and fast-paced environments; and effectively manage multiple projects or matters with competing deadlines;
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills;
• Solid business instinct and judgment;
• High degree of organization and efficiency with demonstrated attention to detail;
• Strong collaborative skills, and proven team orientation;
• Personal integrity, sound judgment, and strong ethics in business and personal conduct;
• Enthusiasm, energy, and motivation to contribute and thrive in a growing company where roles continually adapt as the company evolves;
• Adaptable and comfortable with change, organizational evolution, and ambiguity.