Senior Counsel – Independent Agency, Sales & Service

About the role

GEICO is seeking a Senior Counsel – Independent Agency, Sales & Service to lead legal guidance for the company's expanding independent agent and captive agent business. The ideal candidate must have at least 8 years of experience, preferably 6 years in-house, with a focus on independent agent and captive agent legal and business topics, insurance distribution, sales, and service.

Responsibilities

• Understand and support all key business objectives for supported business units, ensuring compliance with applicable insurance regulations while driving business success.
• Lead legal advice for agency, distribution, sales, and service work and anticipate future legal needs.
• Collaborate with other legal teams as needed to provide legal guidance on independent and captive agent topics, insurance distribution, and servicing.
• Use a wide range of legal knowledge to advise on business choices that may interact with multiple legal subject areas such as privacy, insurance compliance, consumer protection laws, insurance products, intellectual property, and contractual obligations.

Qualifications

• Must have a law degree and an active law license to practice in the United States.
• At least 8 years of experience, preferably 6 years in-house, with a focus on independent agent and captive agent legal and business topics, insurance distribution, sales, and service.
• Knowledge in consumer protection laws, customer service or user experience, insurance sales/distribution, and insurance underwriting.
• Strong listening and communication skills, ability to quickly digest and understand business plans, processes, and procedures, and provide legal advice with incomplete information.
• Superb judgment about legal and legal-adjacent risks as well as mitigation opportunities, solution-oriented, and experience solving business problems and advancing business metrics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with B2B relationship management (as business partners, not vendors).
• Proven success working on novel and emerging issues.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact effectively with both internal clients and external business partners.
• Ability to identify opportunities for enhancements or improvements and assist in implementation of creative solutions.
• Experience providing legal support on distributing insurance or other regulated products through third parties.

Pay and Benefits

Annual Salary Range: $148,625.00 - $260,350.00
Location: Hybrid – This position requires the individual to work 3 days onsite at our Bethesda, MD, New York City, NY, or Cleveland, OH locations.
Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including market-competitive compensation, a 401K savings plan with a 6% match, performance and recognition-based incentives, and tuition assistance.
Additional benefits include mental healthcare, fertility and adoption assistance, and flexible work arrangements.