Senior Legal Counsel – Americas

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🏄 California, New York, +5 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote 🌴 South Carolina – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $163.5k - $261.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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ABB

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🚗 Transport

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

Consulting • Logistics • Transport

<ABB> ABB is a global technology company specializing in electrification, industrial automation, robotics, motion, and power products and services. It designs, manufactures and services hardware such as motors, drives, medium- and low-voltage equipment, transformers, EV charging infrastructure, and robotic systems, and provides software and lifecycle services to utilities, industry, transport and infrastructure customers to improve efficiency and enable a low-carbon, digitally connected future.

📋 Description

• Advise business leaders across the Americas on legal risk, decision-making, and 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 • 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 share legal capacity with other ABB lawyers

🎯 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 manage competing priorities • Ability to partner with divisional, business area, regional, country, and specialist counsel • Ability to clarify ownership and scope and advise senior stakeholders under time pressure • Strong commercial judgment • Substantial experience in commercial contracts, disputes, strategic transactions, and cross-border matters • 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 • Candidates must already have work authorization permitting them to work for ABB in the US

🏖️ Benefits

• Short-term incentive plan/annual bonus • Medical plan choice: PPO Copay Plan or High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account • Dental plan choice: Core or Core Plus • Vision benefit • Company-paid life insurance (2X base pay) • Company-paid AD&D (1X base pay) • Voluntary life and AD&D insurance • Short-Term Disability up to 26 weeks, company paid • Long-Term Disability at 60% of pay, company paid, with buy-up to 66 2/3% • 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