Assistant General Counsel, Compliance, and Ethics

Bloom Energy, a solid oxide fuel cell company, is looking for an Assistant General Counsel, Compliance, and Ethics, to help create an innovative, world-class compliance and ethics program. This individual should be a dynamic professional who is looking for a rewarding future in one of today’s most exciting technologies.

The Assistant General Counsel, Compliance, and Ethics will be a member of the Legal Department, reporting to the Vice President, Risk Compliance and Ethics.  The individual contributor will work closely with all business areas, including finance, sales, marketing, business development, manufacturing, service, and supply chain. The role includes a broad spectrum of compliance and ethics responsibilities, including assessing risk, developing policies and procedures, conducting training, performing compliance monitoring and testing activities, administering our third party risk management program, and leading investigations. There will be a strong emphasis on third party risk management and our anti-bribery and anti-corruption program

Role and Responsibilities:

• Understand Bloom Energy’s global business operations and advise business leadership on risk mitigation activities under the global compliance and ethics program.
• Drive timely and effective execution of compliance and regulatory risk assessments.
• Drive collaboration and build relationships between the risk, compliance, and ethics team and various stakeholders within Bloom Energy and serve as a champion of the compliance and ethics program.
• Support the development and execution of compliance-related training and communication programs.
• Lead the third party risk management program.
• Support compliance with global privacy statutes and regulations, including GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, HIPAA, etc.
• Lead investigations and monitor resulting remediation actions.
• Review trade sanctions and adverse media alerts.
• Develop and update compliance and ethics policies and procedures.
• Conduct monitoring and testing activities.
• Review policy exceptions and approval requests.
• Maintain regulatory obligations matrices.
• Participate in special projects and broad company initiatives.
• Contribute to the improvement of the risk, compliance and ethics function.
• Work cross-functionally with Internal Audit, Human Resources, Information Technology, Finance, Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Installation Group, Service,  Products, Marketing, and other internal stakeholders.
• Perform other tasks as assigned.

• 15+ years of broad compliance and ethics experience,  DOJ experience preferred.
• JD required with active Bar membership, CCEP, CCEP-I and/or CRCM preferred
• In-depth knowledge of the DOJ Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs and global third party risk management experience required
• Knowledge and experience with FCPA and other anti-bribery and corruption laws
• Knowledge and experience with privacy regulations, including GDPR and CCPA / CPRA
• Understanding of trade sanctions screening best practices.
• Cybersecurity knowledge and experience preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multitask and prioritize workload
• Demonstrated attention to detail
• Ability to provide high-quality work in a timely manner
• Efficient, effective, and well organized
• Respectful, open, collaborative, and transparent inter-personal skills; team-work oriented
• Strong Microsoft Office skills
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to adapt in a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision
• Has experience and knowledge of best practices
• Enjoys problem-solving and developing new processes

About Bloom Energy:

Bloom Energy’s mission is to make clean, reliable, and affordable energy for everyone in the world. The Company’s product, the Bloom Energy Server, delivers highly reliable and resilient, ‘Always-On’ electric power that is clean and sustainable. Bloom’s customers include twenty-five of the Fortune 100 companies and leaders in cloud services and data centers, healthcare, retail, financial services, utilities, and many other industries. For more information, visit www.bloomenergy.com  

Bloom Energy is an equal opportunity employer and makes merit-based employment decisions. We are committed to compliance with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability. Bloom Energy makes reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable laws, for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, who can perform the essential job functions, unless undue hardship would result.

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