Sr. Staff Counsel
About the role
The Senior Staff Counsel is a full-time attorney position within Asurion’s Revenue Contracts team, reporting to the Director or Assistant General Counsel. This role supports drafting and negotiating commercial client agreements, including external-facing contract negotiations, and provides day-to-day legal support to Asurion’s client services teams.
Responsibilities
- Accurately assesses and manages risk through knowledge of Asurion’s business and relevant legal issues, including reconciling the implication of past precedent with current and future needs
- Supports client accounts and acts as a liaison to broker creative solutions for relevant stakeholders
- Demonstrates the ability to effectively understand, consider, and address the client or business while mitigating risk exposure
- Facilitates discussions designed to consistently provide cross-functional communication and guidance for activities requiring legal support
- Exhibits strong drafting, negotiating, collaboration, and communication skills
- Conducts in-depth and ad-hoc contractual research projects
- Has a functional understanding of the company’s risk profile and the impact of decisions on the company’s core financial performance
- Develops a thorough understanding of Asurion’s business, processes, and goals to provide innovative legal solutions that solve unique or challenging problems
- Demonstrates good analytical skills and judgment to evaluate factual and qualitative information in complicated or novel situations
- Acts as a trusted advisor
Requirements
- J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and admission to the bar in Tennessee
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience; AI and/or privacy experience a plus
- Experience in commercial transactions, including client agreement negotiations is required
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to independently handle a variety and number of legal matters under supervision of more experienced legal counsel
- Strong judgment, confidence, collaborative problem-solving skills, and ability to spot potential issues quickly
- Exceptional ability to schedule and prioritize work and deliverables to ensure on-time response to a large variety of changing demands/requests/requirements
- Highly organized and driven to thoroughly understand the issue and the possible implications of legal guidance
- Able to keep multiple projects and initiatives organized and moving forward in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent time management skills
- Professional interpersonal and organizational skills, and experience communicating with colleagues at various levels of the organization (support functions to executive team)
- Able to work well within a team environment, as well as individually and collaborate effectively
- Success working independently with little supervision while delivering results that meet or exceed expectations
- Highly proficient with full Microsoft suite; familiarity with O365 a plus
Qualifications
- No additional certificates, licenses or registrations are required for this position. However, CPA certification or candidate pursuing certification is a plus.
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