ETC is seeking a Managing Associate General Counsel to serve as a strategic partner to the VP of Finance & General Counsel and a key leader across the business. This role blends hands on legal leadership with people management and cross functional influence in a fast growing global manufacturing environment. Hybrid schedule will be considered.
What You'll Do
- Act as a trusted legal and business advisor to senior leaders across various teams
- Lead legal strategy for commercial transactions, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate legal, regulatory, and enterprise risk
- Oversee global entity governance, contract compliance, and dispute management
- Lead data privacy compliance efforts (GDPR, CCPA, and global frameworks)
- Support and protect ETC's global intellectual property portfolio
- Monitor global regulatory developments and guide post launch compliance as requirements evolve
- Draft, negotiate, and oversee a wide range of global commercial agreements
Lead & Build the Team- Manage and develop the Legal and Regulatory teams
- Recruit, mentor, and retain top legal talent
- Establish scalable processes, workflows, and ISO aligned procedures
- Drive operational excellence through metrics, process improvement, and legal technology
- Deliver practical legal training across the organization
Why ETC
-opportunity to build and scale a high impact legal function
-global footprint with interesting work and great co-workers
A complete job description and minimum qualifications are below. For questions, please contact Katie Barreau at Katie.Barreau@etcconnect.com or 608.824.5329.
Please apply at: https://etcconnect.clearcompany.com/careers/jobs/82eb0e00-72a5-3af6-debb-60165ab62bb6/apply?source=3654282-CS-49743
Key Responsibilities:
Assists the VP of Finance & General Counsel with the following:
- Drive cross-functional alignment between Legal, Compliance, Finance, Operations, and Product teams
- Oversee legal department budgeting, resource planning, and operation performance
- Develop and implement scalable processes, templates, and best practices to support growth and operational efficiencies
- Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate legal and business risks across transactions and operations
- Draft, negotiate and manage a wide range of commercial agreements
- Lead legal strategy for acquisitions and strategic partnerships
- Manage entity governance for domestic and global subsidiaries (filings, renewals, registrations)
- Monitor contract performance and compliance
- Lead enterprise-wide risk assessments and develop risk mitigation frameworks
- Oversee data privacy compliance, including GDPR, CCPA, and global privacy frameworks
- Litigation and dispute management: track and report dispute status and exposure to Finance and executive teams
- Coordinate and manage external legal counsel to ensure high-quality, cost-effective support
- Develop and deliver legal training (e.g., contract, regulatory, compliance, ethics) to internal stakeholders
- Support the development and maintenance of ETC's global intellectual property portfolio
- Manage the regulatory team
- Monitoring global regulatory developments that impact products and ETC operations
- Monitoring applicable product regulatory requirements and assist with compliance post-launch as regulations change
- Design and maintain regulatory processes and workflows
- Work with various departments to align practices with regulatory requirements
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Coordinates and collaborates with other departments of the company in establishing and carrying out responsibilities
- Develop and maintain positive communication between department and other departments.
- Performs the hiring, orientation, training, performance management, career development, and overall employee development of department personnel.
- Formulates, implements & reviews ISO procedures related to the department
- Instructs employees about procedures and work instructions
- Informs employees on company/departmental plans and progress
- Maintains reporting on all department activities
- Continue to monitor efficiency in the department and make improvements where appropriate
Additional Responsibilities:
- Other duties as assigned.
- Special projects and requests are completed in a timely and positive fashion
- Ability to travel when necessary
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- Juris doctorate degree from an accredited law school
- Good standing as a member of the Wisconsin State Bar (or the ability to become a member of the Wisconsin State Bar)
- 7 + years of legal experience
- 3 + years of supervisory experience
- Demonstrated ability to perform the duties of Associate General Counsel
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and perform multiple tasks without general supervision.
- Exceptional legal drafting, negotiation and research skills
- Strong business acumen with ability to identify and balance legal risk and commercial objectives
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Highly organized, adaptable, and capable of managing competing priorities from multiple stakeholders
- Experience with cloud-based contract management systems preferred
- Working knowledge of employment law
- Strong attention to detail and follow-through
- Proven leadership skills with the ability to influence, mentor and manage diverse teams
To apply visit: https://etcconnect.clearcompany.com/careers/jobs/82eb0e00-72a5-3af6-debb-60165ab62bb6/apply?source=3654282-CS-49743
