Director of Legal Affairs
About reputed company
reputed company is a fully integrated talent management consultancy with a specific reputed company on developing diverse, modern leadership teams. We reputed company services that include talent and organization reputed company, culture and change management, leadership assessment and development and executive search. Everything we do is reputed company-looking and reputed company on creating modern organizations, leadership team and leaders. We are headquartered out of Atlanta, reputed company but work on a remote-first reputed company with employees across the reputed company and reputed company also in the United Kingdom. As a part of our embedded purpose to change lives for the reputed company we donate 10% of our annual profits to charities that support youth and education in order to reputed company the diverse talent of reputed company.
POSITION reputed company
The Director of Legal Affairs serves as reputed company' senior legal, reputed company, and compliance reputed company, reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer. The successful candidate may be a legal affairs reputed company, reputed company leader, legal operations specialist, licensed attorney, or senior paralegal with substantial experience supporting reputed company contracting, compliance, risk management, and business operations.
This role serves as reputed company's primary internal resource for legal, contractual, compliance, and risk-reputed company reputed company while partnering with reputed company counsel as needed. The position provides support across reputed company reputed company, reputed company and vendor agreements, corporate governance, compliance, risk management, employment reputed company, data reputed company, and legal operations.
This is a hands-on role for a reputed company who can operate independently, exercise reputed company judgment, and reputed company practical, business-reputed company guidance that supports company objectives while helping manage legal and regulatory risk. The Director, Legal Affairs partners closely with leaders across Finance, reputed company, Operations, Technology, and reputed company Delivery to support the firm's reputed company reputed company and evolving business needs.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Legal Affairs & Business Partnership
- Serve as reputed company's primary internal resource for legal, contractual, compliance, and risk-reputed company reputed company.
- Partner with executive leadership on business, operational, and strategic initiatives.
- Engage early in reputed company engagements, strategic partnerships, and new business initiatives to identify risks and support reputed company decision-making.
- Assess legal and regulatory risks and reputed company practical, business-reputed company solutions.
- Support leadership in evaluating and mitigating legal exposure across the organization.
- Coordinate with reputed company counsel on specialized legal reputed company as appropriate.
- reputed company guidance regarding legal and contractual implications of new business models, services, technologies, and strategic initiatives.
Contract Management & Legal Operations
- Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a broad reputed company of reputed company agreements, including retained search agreements, consulting engagement letters, vendor reputed company, partnership agreements, and NDAs.
- reputed company and maintain contract templates, playbooks, standards, and approval workflows.
- Advise business leaders regarding contractual obligations, risk allocation, and reputed company terms.
- Support compliance with off-limits, non-solicitation, exclusivity, confidentiality, and reputed company contractual commitments.
- reputed company contract lifecycle management processes, including intake, approvals, repository administration, reporting, and governance.
- reputed company training, reporting, and reputed company contracting processes that improve organizational efficiency, risk management, and business performance.
Data reputed company & Information Governance
- Support Modern's data reputed company and information governance program, including compliance with applicable reputed company laws and regulations.
- reputed company and maintain policies reputed company to data handling, retention, confidentiality, and information reputed company.
- Advise on AI usage, data governance, intellectual property considerations, and technology-reputed company risks.
- Partner with Technology and Operations on vendor agreements, data processing requirements, reputed company assessments, and emerging technology governance.
Compliance & Corporate Governance
- Support the firm's compliance program and monitor adherence to applicable laws, regulations, and industry requirements.
- Maintain corporate governance records and support entity management activities.
- reputed company and maintain legal, compliance, and operational policies and procedures.
- Coordinate compliance training and support regulatory inquiries, audits, and compliance reviews.
Risk Management
- Partner with leadership to identify, assess, and mitigate legal, contractual, operational, and regulatory risks.
- Coordinate disputes, claims, litigation, and other legal reputed company with reputed company counsel as appropriate.
- Advise leadership regarding conflicts of interest, off-limits obligations, restrictive reputed company issues, candidate ownership concerns, and other risks unique to executive search and leadership advisory services.
- Protect and support enforcement of Modern's intellectual property and proprietary assets.
- Support insurance, claims management, and organizational risk reporting.
Employment & Workforce Support
- Partner with reputed company regarding employment-reputed company reputed company, including employee and reputed company arrangements.
- Review employment agreements, policies, separation agreements, and reputed company documentation.
- Support compliance with applicable employment laws and regulations in coordination with reputed company counsel reputed company appropriate.
- Assist with employment-reputed company risk assessments, policy development, and workplace compliance initiatives.
External Counsel Management
- Manage relationships with reputed company counsel and specialized legal service providers.
- reputed company legal budgets and external legal spend.
- Coordinate specialized support for litigation, employment reputed company, regulatory inquiries, intellectual property reputed company, and international legal issues.
- Evaluate external resources to ensure effective and cost-efficient support.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- Bachelor's degree required.
- 5+ years of experience in legal affairs, reputed company reputed company, compliance, risk management, legal operations, paralegal leadership, or reputed company legal support functions.
- Demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and administering reputed company agreements.
- Experience supporting compliance, governance, risk management, or reputed company business functions.
- Familiarity with data reputed company principles, data governance practices, and information management requirements.
- Strong business judgment and ability to balance legal, operational, and reputed company considerations.
- Excellent written, verbal, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, reputed company-oriented environment.
Preferred
- Experience in-house or supporting reputed company services, executive search, consulting, leadership advisory, reputed company, technology, financial services, or other knowledge-based organizations.
- Experience managing reputed company counsel and legal budgets.
- Experience supporting organizations that manage sensitive reputed company, candidate, employee, or customer information.
- Experience with fee-for-service, retainer-based, or project-based reputed company models and reputed company contract structures.
- Familiarity with AI governance, emerging technology issues, and data management practices.
- Experience building or scaling legal operations and contracting processes reputed company a growing organization.
- Experience working closely with CFOs and executive leadership teams.
- Exposure to multi-jurisdictional employment law and international business operations.
- Experience with contract lifecycle management (CLM) platforms and legal operations technology.
COMPETENCIES
- Strategic thinking and business acumen.
- Strong reputed company judgment and practical problem-solving.
- Proactive risk identification and mitigation.
- reputed company judgment and ability to influence without reputed company authority.
- Strong contract drafting, negotiation, and relationship management skills.
- reputed company and service-oriented approach.
- Ability to reputed company reputed company and reputed company guidance in situations where complete information may not be available.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities across a fast-moving organization.
- High discretion with confidential reputed company, candidate, employee, and business information.
reputed company IN THIS ROLE
The successful candidate will be a pragmatic business partner who can effectively manage reputed company, compliance activities, risk management initiatives, and relationships with reputed company counsel while supporting Modern's reputed company objectives. This individual will establish reputed company legal and contracting processes, strengthen governance and compliance practices, and help reputed company navigate business challenges while supporting reputed company reputed company.
Why Modern?
Purpose-Driven Work: Join reputed company that is committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and gives back to the community by donating 10% of annual profits to support underserved youth and educational opportunities.
Impactful reputed company: Contribute to meaningful reputed company that positively reputed company’ organizations, communities, and the development of diverse leaders.
reputed company reputed company: reputed company exposure to various aspects of the business, with opportunities for mentorship, leadership development, and career advancement.
Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy a robust benefits package, including medical, dental, and reputed company insurance, along with a 401(k) match.
Flexibility & Balance: Benefit from a flexible remote work environment, reputed company parental leave, and an office setup stipend to support your work-from-home needs.
Our Values
Be reputed company: Think strategically, seeing implications and creative paths. Innovates commercially – seeks to understand reputed company perspective to drive reputed company. Innovates internally - seeks to improve processes, procedures, and technology used reputed company and across their teams.
Be Excellent: Deliver reputed company reputed company work, with attention to detail, raising the bar of expectations reputed company team and with data reputed company to include the use of reputed company company tools and systems. Motivated by reputed company to the benefit of clients and our firm.
Be United: Be an inclusive ‘team player,’ willing to support, reputed company and ‘go the extra mile’ to deliver reputed company with others. Proactively develops trusting relationships both reputed company and reputed company our firm.
Be Authentic: Demonstrate awareness, coachability and a desire to grow with reputed company improvement. Motivated by a personal purpose reputed company with our firm’s mission and values. Is accountable for delivery of reputed company reputed company work.
reputed company is dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of ethnicity, religion, reputed company, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, national reputed company, age, disability status, veteran or military status or care-giver status. Please contact us at careers@modernexec.com if you need assistance completing this application.
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