Director, Corporate Counsel

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Job Summary: The Director, Corporate Counsel is a senior-level attorney responsible for providing corporate and transactional legal support, focusing on corporate transactions, commercial agreements, compliance, and advising cross-functional business teams. This role drafts, reviews, and negotiates a broad range of commercial contracts (including SaaS/software licenses and supply agreements), supports data privacy and regulatory compliance initiatives, and delivers practical, business-focused legal guidance. Partnering across the enterprise, the Director ensures legal strategies align with business goals while protecting the Company's interests. 

 
Essential Responsibilities 

• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts, including services agreements, supply agreements, consulting/professional services agreements, software licenses and confidentiality agreements, that achieve business objectives and mitigate risk 

• Advise on corporate transactions generally, advertising and marketing, IP, IT, data governance (including AI) and procurement matters 

• Support data privacy and other commercial and regulatory compliance initiatives 

• Provide day-to-day, general legal advice relating to non-litigation and non-labor employment matters 

• Develop templates, policies, and best practices for legal processes 

• Perform legal research in support of various projects and requests 

• Partner with other attorneys in the Legal Department and other support professionals and business partners to accomplish tasks within scope and perform other general legal and/or business duties and functions as may be required by enterprise needs 

• Respond to government and regulatory agency inquiries 

Non-Essential Responsibilities 

• Execute Company initiatives and other activities requested by supervisor 

• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities 

• Enhances department and Company reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; explores opportunities to add value to job accomplishments 

• Contributes ideas on ways to optimize or improve the team, the department, and the Company 

Education 

• Bachelor's Degree required 

• Ph.D. Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from an ABA accredited law school required 

Professional Experience 

• 7+ years transactional/corporate law experience required 

• National law firm or in-house at large company, strongly preferred 

• Extensive experience in commercial contracting (must demonstrate knowledge of corporate transactions) required 

• Retail industry experience preferred 

Skills List 

• Expertise in commercial contract review, negotiation and drafting (including SaaS/software licenses and supply agreements); must be able to independently lead and bring contracting process to completion 

• Broad knowledge of corporate transactions (e.g., M&A, divestitures, secured transactions, and corporate restructuring) 

• Knowledge of consumer protection regulations (e.g., FCRA, TCPA, TILA, etc.) and US data privacy law, including CCPAls and areas within the organization 

• Strong ability to translate legal advice into practical, actionable guidance for business partners with analytical judgement 

• Strong ability to efficiently and independently lead, manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously, effectively guiding team members to achieve goals and tasks 

• Highly skilled at identifying, interpreting and articulating issues that may impact business objectives and developing practical solutions respecting such issues 

• High ethical standards, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to work effectively with diverse individuals at all levels of the company 

• Ability to make sound, independent decisions and develop original ideas with a vision to implement them successfully 

• Ability to motivate and empower individuals and groups toward high standards of performance and engagement 

 
Competencies & Knowledge 

• Strong understanding of the structure and key components of commercial contracts including representations and warranties, covenants, conditions, indemnities and termination provisions 

• Broad understanding of corporate transactions and regulations affecting consumer-facing industries (retail preferred) 

• Experienced in cross-functional business advising and commercial transactions 

• Conflict resolution and management: High proficiency 

• General understanding of US data privacy law such as CCPA, preferred 

• Microsoft Office products: High proficiency 

Licenses and Certifications 

• Bar Membership (Texas or eligible to be admitted to Texas bar without examination) required 

• Active, good-standing membership before Texas and any other state (with ability to become licensed in Texas), bar associations, licensure before State Bar of Texas required