Corporate Counsel

Job Description

Summary :

Join our dynamic Legal Team as Corporate Counsel and play a key role in supporting our global business units! In this versatile, generalist position, you'll work across a wide range of legal areas, partnering closely with our General Counsel to help drive smart, strategic decisions across the company. If you’re looking for a collaborative environment where your legal expertise can make a global impact, we’d love to meet you!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

Advise on day-to-day legal affairs, various domestic and cross-border transactions, contracts, compliance, and corporate matters, ensuring operational and regulatory compliance.

Provide actionable and sound legal advice, prepare reports, and make recommendations to management on a variety of legal issues.

Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements (e.g. NDAs, SaaS agreements, development agreements) from both the supplier and customer perspective.

Ensure compliance with applicable US and international regulatory frameworks, e.g. REACH, RoHS, Export Administration Regulations, PFAS, etc.

Develop and implement internal compliance policies and procedures.

Support antitrust, trade, and environmental compliance, pre-litigation, dispute resolution, government inquiries and investigations, settlement matters, and handle other specialized matters with the assistance of external counsel resources.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide integrated and comprehensive legal guidance.

Stay up to date with industry trends and changes in relevant laws and regulations.

Other Duties and Responsibilities :

Provide strategic legal leadership to help ensure the organization is legally savvy and risk-aware. Empower managers across the business with a solid legal foundation, enabling them to understand and proactively manage legal risks in their areas.

Partner closely with the General Counsel and key stakeholders to lead critical legal initiatives, such as contract negotiations, regulatory compliance, ESG matters, and more.

Deliver impactful legal training and coaching to team members, ensuring they’re well-versed in relevant laws, regulations, company policies, and internal processes.

Collaborate with the Executive Team and business unit leaders to support strategic planning, drive execution, and foster cohesive leadership across the organization.

Qualifications

Qualifications :

Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school in the United States is required.

License to practice law in New York is required.

5+ years of relevant experience in corporate law firms and / or in-house legal departments, preferably with a multinational company.

Pragmatic, hands-on, solutions-oriented lawyer who is able to think on their feet and find sensible solutions to legal challenges; able to assess issues, take ownership, and efficiently implement solutions.

Ability to influence others without direct line management oversight.  Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills – able to win trust and develop business relationships.

Ability to collaborate with multicultural teams and companies operating across different time zones; some travel may be required.

Forward thinking mindset with the ability to manage multiple projects independently.

Professional presence and integrity.

Additional Information

For New York, the expected salary range for this position is between  $100,000 – $145,000 per year.   In addition, INFICON employees are eligible for a profit sharing bonus with a target of 10%.  The actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law.

INFICON provides a dynamic work environment that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our employees experience ongoing green initiatives, flexible work hours, and a variety of health and wellness programs.

INFICON’s forward-thinking approach offers countless opportunities to design, support, and manufacture a diverse product portfolio that expands globally. Our Lean and Agile work environment offers competitive compensation, relocation assistance, a discretionary bonus, and generous employee benefits; major medical, dental, health, vision, 401K, vacation and sick time, tuition reimbursement, and more!

INFICON is committed to ensuring that our online application process provides an equal opportunity to all job seekers that apply without regard to race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, age, protected veteran status, disability status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. A notice describing Federal equal employment opportunity laws is available here to reaffirm this commitment.   Any contact that would like to request a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process should contact  us.careers@inficon.com .

INFICON, Inc. strictly complies with all aspects of the Export Administration Regulations ('EAR'), including those sections dealing with deemed exports to foreign nationals.