Assistant General Counsel

We are seeking an experienced Assistant General Counsel to join our legal team and support a broad range of commercial, employment, compliance, investigations, corporate, and operational legal matters across the company’s global business.

The Assistant General Counsel will serve as a practical, business-oriented legal advisor to internal stakeholders across the company, including sales, procurement, operations, finance, human resources, compliance, and executive leadership. This is an in-house generalist role with a significant focus on commercial contracts, employment matters, compliance work, internal investigations, and day-to-day legal counseling.

The ideal candidate has at least 6 years of relevant legal experience, strong contract drafting and negotiation skills, and the ability to provide clear, pragmatic guidance in a fast-paced business environment. The successful candidate should be comfortable handling a broad range of legal matters, including issues outside their primary areas of experience, while knowing when to escalate or seek specialized support.

The Assistant General Counsel will report to the General Counsel. This is a hybrid role working from Austin, TX. 

Insight on your impact:

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including customer agreements, supplier agreements, distribution agreements, services agreements, NDAs, terms and conditions, amendments, statements of work, and other business contracts.
• Provide practical legal guidance to business teams on contract interpretation, risk allocation, dispute avoidance, commercial strategy, and day-to-day operational issues.
• Support employment-related matters in partnership with Human Resources, including employee relations, employment policies, separations, restrictive covenants, accommodations, investigations, wage and hour issues, and compliance with applicable employment laws.
• Assist with internal investigations, including intake, fact gathering, document review, witness interviews, investigation planning, findings, remediation, and related reporting.
• Support compliance initiatives, including anti-corruption, trade compliance, sanctions, export controls, data privacy, conflicts of interest, ethics, policy development, training, and internal controls.
• Advise on legal issues related to global electronics distribution, including supply chain, procurement, sales, logistics, warranties, product issues, international business operations, and customer or supplier disputes.
• Partner with business leaders to identify, assess, and mitigate legal, compliance, employment, and commercial risks.
• Assist with corporate legal matters, including corporate governance, entity management, corporate records, internal approvals, policies, and special projects.
• Manage or support disputes, claims, subpoenas, demand letters, litigation holds, pre-litigation matters, and coordination with outside counsel.
• Help develop, update, and maintain contract templates, legal playbooks, employment-related templates, compliance policies, investigation protocols, and internal training materials.
• Coordinate with outside counsel on employment, compliance, litigation, commercial, and other specialized matters as needed.
• Handle additional legal matters and special projects as necessary to support the company’s evolving business needs.

Your qualifications, your influence:
To be successful in the role, you must possess the following skills

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
• Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and in good standing.
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant legal experience.
• Strong experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Experience advising on general corporate, commercial, employment, compliance, or investigations-related matters.
• Prior in-house counsel experience is a plus, but not required.
• Experience working with Human Resources or advising on employment-related matters preferred.
• Experience conducting or supporting internal investigations preferred.
• Experience supporting a company with international operations preferred.
• Experience with distribution, supply chain, technology, electronics, manufacturing, or similar industries is a plus.
• Familiarity with trade compliance, export controls, sanctions, anti-corruption, data privacy, employment law, and related compliance matters is helpful.
• Experience managing outside counsel is preferred.

Preferred skills and technical familiarity:
Adding additional insight, and a growth mindset, will elevate your contribution in this role

• Strong business judgment and ability to provide practical, risk-based legal advice.
• Excellent contract drafting, negotiation, and issue-spotting skills.
• Ability to manage a broad range of legal matters in a fast-paced, global business environment.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism in handling sensitive employment, compliance, and investigation matters.
• Ability to work effectively with Human Resources, business teams, executive leadership, outside counsel, and international stakeholders.
• Comfortable working independently while collaborating closely with legal and business colleagues.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Proactive, commercially minded, solutions-oriented, and adaptable.
• Willingness and ability to handle legal matters outside core areas of expertise as business needs require.