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About the Role
Serve as the senior legal leader for a mission-driven California organization with diverse operations. This role manages legal matters across six affiliated entities, supporting multiple CEOs and boards, and advising on a broad range of legal and business issues.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior legal advisor to the parent organization, its affiliated entities, executive leadership, and governing boards in a complex, matrixed environment.
- Provide day-to-day counsel on general corporate and commercial matters, with particular emphasis on contracts, business transactions, governance, and enterprise risk.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a broad range of commercial agreements and other contracts supporting operations across the organization.
- Advise senior leadership on legal and business issues affecting healthcare, senior living, nonprofit operations, insurance-related activities, investments, real estate, and other operating businesses.
- Support legal and regulatory matters arising from a regulated senior living and healthcare environment.
- Partner with leadership and the investment committee on governance and legal matters related to the organization’s endowment and strategic investments, as appropriate.
- Oversee and efficiently manage outside counsel across specialized areas, including senior living and healthcare, employment, insurance, real estate and land use, litigation, and other regulatory matters.
- Advise on real estate and land-use matters associated with properties located throughout California, coordinating with specialized outside counsel as needed.
- Provide thoughtful legal support to newer or evolving business activities and affiliated entities as they become more fully integrated into the broader corporate structure.
- Proactively identify legal and regulatory risk and provide practical recommendations that balance legal considerations with organizational priorities and business objectives.
- Build trusted relationships across multiple executive teams and boards, navigating shared accountability and differing stakeholder needs with sound judgment and diplomacy.
Requirements
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar; California bar membership or eligibility is preferred.
- Significant, broad-based corporate legal experience with strong capabilities in general corporate matters, contracts, business transactions, governance, and management of outside counsel.
- Prior General Counsel experience is strongly preferred. Exceptional candidates who have served as a senior in-house #2 or as outside counsel with substantial General Counsel-level responsibility will also be considered.
- Demonstrated experience advising CEOs, senior executives, and boards of directors.
- Strong business acumen, maturity, judgment, and the ability to operate effectively within a complex, matrixed organization.
- Experience working in a regulated industry or advising regulated businesses is a plus.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, relationship-building, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage a broad portfolio of matters while knowing when to engage and oversee specialized outside counsel.
- Ability to travel periodically within California, including to Southern California, for board and business meetings.
Skills
- General corporate matters
- Contracts
- Business transactions
- Governance
- Management of outside counsel
- Negotiation
- Relationship-building
- Organizational skills
Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- California
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Legal Executive
Education Level
- J.D. from an accredited law school
Salary/Compensations
- $300,000–$350,000
Benefits
- Robust retirement program
- Safe-harbor 401(k) contribution
- 401(k) match
- 457(b) plan
About the Company
- Long-established, mission-driven California organization with a diversified group of affiliated nonprofit and operating entities.
- Has offices and operations throughout California, including Northern and Southern California.
- Stable, sophisticated, mission-oriented organization with diverse operations and a significant presence throughout California.