Description:

The role of Director, Counsel, Legal – Revenue is a full-time attorney position within Asurion's Commercial Contracts team, reporting to the Sr. Counsel, Commercial Contracts. In this role, you will be responsible for (i) drafting and negotiating commercial client agreements, including working closely with internal stakeholders and participating in external-facing contract negotiations with Asurion's clients and (ii) providing day-to-day legal support to Asurion's client services teams. This role requires the ability to facilitate both legal and cross-functional discussions resulting in timely and consistent legal guidance that meets the business needs while mitigating risk.

The ideal candidate will be a dynamic leader, with excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, strong time and project-management and prioritization skills, and will have prior commercial legal experience drafting and leading negotiations, preferably on client-facing agreements.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Support internal client needs and acts as a liaison; brokers creative solutions for relevant stakeholders
Develops a thorough understanding of Asurion's business, processes and goals to provide innovative legal solutions that solve unique or challenging problems
Establishes strong collaborative relationships with cross-functional teams, including legal, underwriting, finance, tax, technology, treasury, comp, and client services
Has strong drafting, negotiating, collaboration and communication skills
Demonstrates good analytical skills and judgment to evaluate factual and qualitative information in complicated or novel situations
Acts as a trusted advisor and leader to drive results in order to complete transactions and projects, as needed
Actively seeks operational understanding and implications of initiatives and implements process improvements to streamline support and complete successful transactions

Qualifications:

J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and admission to the bar in Tennessee or active bar membership in good standing eligible to waive into the Tennessee bar.
8 to 10+ years of relevant experience; IP, AI and/or privacy experience is a plus
Experience managing commercial transactions, including drafting and negotiating client agreements
Demonstrates the ability to effectively understand, consider and address the internal client or business needs while mitigating risk exposure
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Must possess strong judgment, confidence, collaborative problem-solving skills, and ability to identify potential issues quickly
Must be able to independently handle a variety and number of legal matters in timely fashion with minimal supervision
Exceptional ability to schedule and prioritize work and deliverables to ensure on-time response to a large variety of changing demands/requests/requirements
Highly organized and driven to thoroughly understand the issue and the possible implications of legal guidance
Agile learner that is open to finding streamlined solutions that embrace emerging technology