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About the Role
Surefox North America Inc is a veteran-owned company seeking a General Counsel with a contracts focus to provide strategic and practical legal counsel, primarily managing commercial contracting and supporting broader corporate legal needs. This role serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and business stakeholders on various legal matters, ensuring compliance and protecting the organization's interests.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, revise, negotiate, and manage commercial and corporate agreements.
- Review client, vendor, employment, partnership, licensing, and other business agreements.
- Ensure contracts comply with applicable laws, regulations, company policies, and business objectives.
- Identify contractual risks and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Advise business leaders regarding contractual obligations, rights, remedies, liabilities, and other legal considerations.
- Create and amend client and vendor contracts.
- Support strategic and complex corporate transactions, including partnerships, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions.
- Coordinate with outside counsel and other advisors as necessary.
- Ensure legal expenses and outside counsel activities are managed effectively and within established budgets.
- Provide strategic and tactical legal advice to executive leadership, management, the Board of Directors, and other stakeholders.
- Provide legal guidance on corporate law, contracts, labor and employment, privacy, ethics, investigations, compliance, regulatory matters, and business initiatives.
- Monitor changes in applicable laws, regulations, case law, and licensing requirements and proactively communicate relevant developments.
- Develop proactive and defensive legal strategies to address business risks.
- Represent or support the company in legal proceedings, negotiations, and interactions with regulatory or governmental agencies.
- Manage or assist with litigation and potential litigation.
- Advise management on the legal implications of company policies, programs, transactions, and strategic initiatives.
- Manage and support legal compliance and risk-management activities.
- Conduct or support compliance audits.
- Provide guidance regarding applicable laws, regulations, licensing requirements, and company policies.
- Identify emerging legal risks and develop practical mitigation strategies.
- Partner with internal departments to resolve legal and compliance matters.
- Support ethics and compliance activities, including investigations, interviews, and witness statements.
- Promote a culture of ethical conduct, compliance, accountability, and sound business judgment.
- Provide legal advice and guidance regarding labor and employment matters.
- Advise Human Resources and business leaders regarding employment-related policies, practices, agreements, disputes, and regulatory requirements.
- Assist with the identification and mitigation of employment-related legal risks.
- Establish priorities and manage legal workloads in alignment with organizational objectives.
- Collaborate with Compliance, Human Resources, Finance, Operations, and other departments.
- Resolve conflicts and provide practical solutions to complex legal and organizational issues.
- Balance legal risk with business objectives, profitability, employee considerations, client relationships, vendor relationships, and company values.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an ABA-accredited law school.
- Must be admitted and in good standing to a recognized bar.
- Must be eligible for employment within the United States.
- Must be able to pass an extensive background check and drug screening.
- Relevant legal experience in corporate, commercial, transactional, contracts, employment, compliance, or related legal practice.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of corporate law and legal procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to identify legal risks and develop proactive and defensive legal strategies.
- Strong negotiation skills involving legal, financial, and commercial considerations.
- Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
- Ability to communicate complex legal matters clearly and concisely to legal and non-legal audiences.
- Strong judgment and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision and effectively as part of a team.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and assignments simultaneously.
- High degree of professional ethics, integrity, confidentiality, and discretion.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, demanding, and collaborative environment.
- Corporate legal practice experience.
- Significant corporate contracts experience.
- Experience in compliance, ethics, investigations, risk mitigation, or regulatory.
- Experience managing outside counsel.
- Military background or active-duty military legal experience.
Skills
- Contracts
- Commercial contracting
- Corporate legal needs
- Legal risk
- Compliance
- Corporate transactions
- Labor and employment matters
- Litigation
- Negotiation
- Legal procedures
- Risk mitigation
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Presentation skills
- Judgment
- Decision-making
- Independent work
- Teamwork
- Organizational skills
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Ethics
- Integrity
- Confidentiality
- Discretion
Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- General Counsel
Education Level
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an ABA-accredited law school
- Admitted and in good standing to a recognized bar
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000.00 - $250,000.00
Benefits
- Flexible Time Away
- 401k
- Medical/Dental/Vision benefits
- Voluntary Life and Short Term Disability Benefits
- Gym Benefit
About the Company
- Surefox North America Inc is a veteran owned company that prides itself on creating a diverse and unique culture of trained and talented individuals.
Equal Opportunity
- Surefox will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all requirements of State and local laws, regulations or codes.