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 [email protected] or 608.824.5329.
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
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What We Do
A global leader in the manufacturing of lighting and rigging technology, ETC employs nearly 1400 people in 13 corporate offices around the world. ETC is proud of its industry reputation for unmatched technical and customer service, 24/7/365. And with a family of over 300 authorized service centers throughout the world, staffed by hundreds of certified technicians, customers are never far from an ETC resource with a face and a name. ETC develops professional tools and makes them accessible to everyone. Their products are found in small and large venues worldwide, such as theatres, churches, restaurants, hotels, schools, television studios, casinos, theme parks, and opera houses. Founded in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1975, ETC was begun with the passionate belief that there was a better way to make a lighting control console. A small group of university students challenged themselves by creating a microprocessor-based console that outdid other boards on the market at the time. That entrepreneurial spirit grew into an award-winning business. To learn more about ETC and our history of innovation, visit www.etcconnect.com.
