Associate Director, Legal

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Provide legal representation to the Organization, support the work of the Organization and manage the full range of legal strategies and responsibilities for Brillio’s 7 legal entities in 7 jurisdictions, with primary focus towards North America geo.
• Set the strategy and goals for the Legal team in alignment with the larger organizational goals.
• Lead complex legal projects that span legal, business, and functional boundaries (e.g., cross geographies, subject matter areas, jurisdictions, organizations and business models)
• Provide counsel to staff in all departments on a variety of complex issues. Identify, research, and analyze legal issues that affect the Organization and its activities at the local, state, federal and international levels associated with the Organization’s activities, ongoing operations, and strategic initiatives, including but not limited to, mergers and acquisitions and IPO, etc.
• Develop and provide trainings on legal issues, processes and policies to multi-level audiences in all departments in Country Offices and Global Offices.
• Supervise the Legal staff and oversee a department that can appropriately support Brillio utilizing a mix of full-time in-house counsels, interns, paid outside counsel, volunteers, etc.
• Provide legal support and advisory to cross-functional teams and business departments on various types of contract requests, reviews, negotiation and closures, including but not limited to, customer MSAs, SOWs, Vendor contracts for services and staff-aug, Procurement contracts, etc.
• Develop and manage the legal department budget.
• Special projects and other duties, as assigned.

Qualification & Experience

• Minimum of 12 to 15 years of experience including significant professional experience as a corporate legal counsel.
• LLB from an accredited institution (LLM would be preferred).
• Experience advising senior management of complex, international laws and regulations and its impact to the Organization.
• Strong analytical skills and demonstrated ability to understand complex legal concepts and analysis and translate those to non-lawyers to create practical processes, guidance and training.
• Prior success building relationships and communicating with diverse groups of people.