Senior Legal Counsel

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $163.5k - $261.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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10,000+ employees

⚡ Energy

🏭 Manufacturing

🔧 Hardware

💰 $545.9M Post-IPO Debt - ABB on 2023-11

Energy • Manufacturing • Hardware

ABB is a global technology and engineering company focused on electrification, industrial automation, and motion (electrical motors, drives, robotics and related systems). The company provides products, systems and services for electrification, power and automation across sectors such as buildings and infrastructure, industrial automation, marine and ports, oil & gas, and power generation, with an emphasis on energy efficiency and sustainable solutions.

📋 Description

• Advise business leaders across the Americas on legal risk, decision-making, and execution of strategic priorities • Draft, review, and negotiate complex customer, supplier, service, subcontractor, channel partner, technology, and other commercial agreements • Design scalable contract management processes, including playbooks, templates, and workflows • Advise on tenders, contract risk reviews, claims, change orders, project execution, and dispute avoidance • Manage litigation, arbitration, pre-litigation claims, settlements, and external counsel, including strategy, budgets, reporting, and quality assurance • Advise on employment and human resources matters, including performance management, investigations, terminations, reorganizations, immigration, and cross-border workforce issues • Provide strategic legal counsel on mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, divestitures, joint ventures, and restructuring activities globally • Support other ABB divisions, business areas, and corporate functions as business needs require • Collaborate with ABB lawyers across divisions, countries, specialist teams, and regions under agreed coverage models and matter-allocation principles • Coordinate work, clarify matter ownership, and contribute to shared legal capacity across ABB Electrification Service and other supported divisions

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) with active bar admission in at least one relevant jurisdiction • Minimum 10 years of in-house or law firm experience supporting industrial, engineering, technology, construction, or services businesses across multiple legal disciplines and jurisdictions in a multinational company • Ability to operate autonomously in a highly collaborative environment and partner effectively with divisional, business area, regional, country, and specialist counsel • Ability to manage competing priorities, clarify ownership and scope, and advise senior stakeholders under time pressure • Strong commercial judgment and substantial experience in commercial contracts, disputes, strategic transactions, and cross-border matters • Ability to identify material risks, develop practical options, support timely business decisions, and engage specialists when needed • Experience with AI tools such as Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or Harvey preferred, or demonstrated willingness to learn and quickly build AI fluency • Strong knowledge of anti-bribery and anti-corruption requirements across the Americas, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) • Experience supporting internal investigations • Knowledge of professional, contractor, electrical licensing, and related regulatory requirements in one or more Americas jurisdictions • Working knowledge of employment and human resources law in one or more Americas jurisdictions preferred • Must already have work authorization permitting work for ABB in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Short-term incentive plan/annual bonus • Choice between two medical plan options: PPO Copay Plan or High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account • Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus • Vision benefit • Company paid life insurance (2X base pay) • Company paid AD&D (1X base pay) • Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums • Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid • Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid; ability to buy up to 66 2/3% of pay • Supplemental benefits: accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance • Paid Parental Leave • Employee Assistance Program • Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation, virtual health, and infertility/adoption • Employee discount program • 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions • Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP) • 11 paid holidays • Vacation under a permissive time away policy for salaried exempt positions

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