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About the Role
Provide comprehensive legal advice and support for ABB's U.S. operations, focusing on fiduciary aspects, corporate law, compliance, contract negotiation, and risk management. This role involves making corporate legal filings, mitigating risks, facilitating governance, supporting leadership, and driving business growth while ensuring compliance.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end accountability for Legal & Integrity fiduciary duties, corporate governance, and compliance for all U.S. legal entities.
- Manage corporate secretarial services, regulatory filings, and contractor licensing.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the U.S. Country Holding Officer and senior management on governance, compliance, risk mitigation, and strategic legal matters.
- Oversee integrity investigations, government contracting compliance, data privacy and protection, cybersecurity, and regulatory certifications.
- Ensure alignment with internal audit, HSE, and risk management standards across all business areas.
- Provide expert counsel on contracts, commercial agreements, and shared legal entity matters.
- Harmonize legal processes while supporting BA-specific needs.
- Supervise paralegal staff and collaborate with global Legal & Integrity centers of excellence.
Requirements
- Juris Doctorate from an accredited U.S. law school with active bar admission.
- Minimum 12 years of experience in corporate/commercial law.
- Experience gained in multinational manufacturing/corporate environments and/or top-tier law firms.
- Proven ability to manage fiduciary responsibilities and corporate governance.
- Ability to operate effectively within a decentralized organization.
- Strong business-focused legal judgment.
- Experience in process improvement, risk mitigation, and optimization of legal operations.
- Proficiency in contract review, drafting, and negotiation.
- Experience with mergers & acquisitions.
- Experience with corporate secretarial functions, including filings and compliance.
- Deep understanding of data privacy and protection laws.
- Knowledge of U.S. government contracting and contractor licensing.
- Familiarity with finance, treasury, and risk management/insurance.
- Preferred experience in antitrust, IP, and IS/IT-related legal matters.
- Must have work authorization permitting employment in the U.S.
Skills
- Corporate law
- Compliance
- Contract negotiation
- Risk management
- Corporate governance
- Regulatory filings
- Contract review
- Contract drafting
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Data privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Government contracting
- Contractor licensing
Location
- US
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 12+ years
Education Level
- Juris Doctorate
- Active bar admission
Benefits
- Choice between two medical plan options (PPO or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA)
- 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
- Company paid Short Term Disability (up to 26 weeks)
- Company paid Long Term Disability (60% of pay, with option to buy-up)
- Supplemental benefits (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Health Advocate support resources
- Employee discount program
- 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
- Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
- 11 paid holidays
- Permissive time away policy for vacation
About the Company
- ABB Motion provides pioneering technology, products, solutions and related services to industrial customers to increase energy efficiency, improve safety and reliability, and maintain precise control over processes.
- The portfolio includes motors, generators and drives for a wide range of applications in all industrial sectors.
Equal Opportunity
- ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.
- Applicants may request to review the plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762.
- Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to US-AskHR@abb.com.