Senior Legal Counsel – Americas

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +6 more states.

📋 Description

• Provide guidance to business leaders throughout the Americas regarding legal risks, decision-making, and strategic priorities.

• Draft, review, and negotiate intricate agreements with customers, suppliers, service providers, subcontractors, channel partners, technology firms, and other commercial entities.

• Create scalable contract management processes, which include playbooks, templates, and workflows.

• Offer advice on tenders, contract risk assessments, claims, change orders, project execution, and methods to avoid disputes.

• Oversee litigation, arbitration, pre-litigation claims, settlements, and external legal counsel, managing strategy, budgets, reporting, and quality assurance.

• Counsel on employment and human resources issues, including performance management, investigations, terminations, reorganizations, immigration, and cross-border workforce challenges.

• Provide strategic legal advice on mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, divestitures, joint ventures, and restructuring initiatives.

• Assist other ABB divisions, business sectors, and corporate functions as required by business needs.

• Collaborate with ABB legal professionals across divisions, countries, specialized teams, and regions following established coverage models and matter-allocation principles.

• Coordinate legal work, clarify matter ownership, and share legal resources with other ABB lawyers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) with active bar admission in at least one relevant jurisdiction.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in-house or at a law firm, supporting industrial, engineering, technology, construction, or services sectors across various legal disciplines and jurisdictions in a multinational environment.

• Capability to work independently within a highly collaborative setting and manage competing priorities effectively.

• Ability to collaborate with divisional, business area, regional, country, and specialized legal counsel.

• Skill in clarifying ownership and scope while advising senior stakeholders under time constraints.

• Strong commercial acumen.

• Significant experience with commercial contracts, disputes, strategic transactions, and cross-border legal matters.

• Familiarity with AI tools such as Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or Harvey is preferred; alternatively, a demonstrated eagerness to learn and rapidly acquire AI fluency is acceptable.

• Comprehensive understanding of anti-bribery and anti-corruption regulations throughout the Americas, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

• Experience in supporting internal investigations.

• Knowledge of professional, contractor, electrical licensing, and related regulatory frameworks in one or more jurisdictions in the Americas.

• Working knowledge of employment and human resources law in one or more jurisdictions in the Americas is preferred.

• Candidates must possess work authorization that allows them to be employed by ABB in the US.

🏝️ Benefits

• Short-term incentive plan/annual bonus.

• Choice of medical plan: PPO Copay Plan or High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account.

• Choice of dental plan: Core or Core Plus.

• Vision benefits.

• Company-paid life insurance (2X base salary).

• Company-paid Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance (1X base salary).

• Optional life and AD&D insurance.

• Company-paid Short-Term Disability for up to 26 weeks.

• Company-paid Long-Term Disability at 60% of pay, with an option to buy up to 66 2/3%.

• Supplemental benefits: accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and 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.