Description:

Department Summary:
Our legal teams support the innovators driving the growth and success of EchoStar and its subsidiaries. From identifying and supporting a variety of corporate legal matters to negotiating the industry's evolving legal landscape, our corporate counselors bring their own kind of invention to effect positive change across the company.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview.

EchoStar seeks an Associate Corporate Counsel to join its dynamic legal department in Littleton, Colorado, supporting commercial transactions across wireless services, telecommunications infrastructure, enterprise solutions, and regulated industries. The Associate Corporate Counsel resolves complex legal and commercial issues involving roaming, transport, network infrastructure, and enterprise partner relationships while providing concise, practical guidance to business teams. This role mitigates legal risks, supports strategic commercial initiatives, and enhances internal legal contracting processes to balance regulatory, operational, and organizational goals.

What Success Looks Like (Objectives):

Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements to enable wireless, enterprise, and infrastructure initiatives
Support critical transactions involving transport, network infrastructure, data centers, and backhaul agreements
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve issues regarding telecommunications compliance, privacy, data security, and service commitments
Deliver concise, business-oriented guidance on contract interpretation, commercial risk, and dispute avoidance
Optimize legal contracting efficiency through the maintenance of playbooks, templates, policies, and procedures
Leverage legal AI application tools to streamline contract review, template creation, and risk analysis workflows

Skills, Experience and Requirements:
Core Skills and Competencies (What you'll bring):

Exceptional technical drafting expertise and meticulous attention to detail in high-volume commercial transactional work
Strong skills in problem solving and analytical thinking to translate complex legal and regulatory issues into actionable business advice
Ability to collaborate effectively across legal, business, regulatory, finance, and operational teams
AI Literacy and Application skills to enhance contract review processes and operational legal workflows
Critical experience drafting, reviewing, or negotiating commercial, technology, telecommunications, or enterprise customer agreements
Critical experience proactively identifying legal risks and navigating fast-paced, regulated environment challenges

Additional Qualifications:

Prior in-house legal department experience
Experience in the wireless, telecommunications, infrastructure, technology, enterprise services, or regulated-industries sectors
Familiarity with roaming, interconnection, transport, fiber, data center, colocation, managed services, or network infrastructure agreements

Minimum Requirements:

Juris Doctor (JD) degree or international equivalent, with an active license to practice law in at least one U.S. state and the ability to meet Colorado admission requirements
1 to 4 years of legal experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department, focusing on commercial transactions
Must have at least 1 year of experience with:

Commercial, technology, or telecommunications agreement drafting and negotiation
Assessing legal risk within enterprise customer, vendor, or intercarrier arrangements
Cross-functional collaboration with business, technical, and operational teams

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role