Deputy General Counsel

We are seeking an experienced Deputy General Counsel to join our legal team and help lead a broad range of corporate, transactional, commercial, finance, compliance, and operational legal matters across the company’s global business.

The Deputy General Counsel will serve as a senior legal advisor to the company and work closely with executive leadership, business teams, and the legal department on strategic transactions, commercial matters, corporate governance, financing activities, and day-to-day legal needs. This role will have a significant focus on mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, finance, corporate governance, and general corporate legal work, while also supporting other legal matters as needs arise.

The ideal candidate is a practical, business-minded attorney with at least 10 years of relevant legal experience, including significant experience with M&A, complex commercial transactions, corporate matters, and finance-related work. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, global business environment and providing clear, actionable legal guidance on both strategic initiatives and routine legal matters.

The Deputy General Counsel will report to the General Counsel. This is a hybrid role working from Austin, TX. 

Insight on your impact:

• Lead and support M&A, investment, divestiture, joint venture, financing, and other strategic transactions, including transaction structuring, due diligence, negotiation, documentation, closing, and post-closing integration.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of complex commercial agreements, including customer agreements, supplier agreements, distribution agreements, services agreements, strategic partnership agreements, NDAs, terms and conditions, purchase and sale documentation, and other business contracts.
• Advise executive leadership and business teams on legal risks, transaction strategy, deal terms, corporate structure, governance, and commercial risk allocation.
• Support corporate finance matters, including credit facilities, financing arrangements, intercompany arrangements, guarantees, security documentation, and related corporate approvals.
• Manage corporate governance matters, including board and shareholder materials, resolutions, consents, minutes, entity management, corporate records, delegations of authority, and internal approval processes.
• Provide legal support for domestic and international corporate structuring, subsidiary management, entity formations, reorganizations, and related corporate initiatives.
• Partner with sales, procurement, finance, operations, compliance, tax, and executive teams to support business objectives while managing legal and commercial risk.
• Advise on legal issues related to global electronics distribution, including supply chain, procurement, sales, logistics, warranties, product issues, international operations, and commercial disputes.
• Support compliance matters, including trade compliance, sanctions, export controls, anti-corruption, data privacy, internal policies, and risk management initiatives.
• Manage or assist with disputes, claims, pre-litigation matters, and coordination with outside counsel.
• Oversee and manage outside counsel on transactional, corporate, financing, compliance, and other matters, including budgets, work product, and strategic direction.
• Develop and improve legal department processes, contract templates, playbooks, governance practices, and internal training materials.
• Mentor and support legal department team members, as applicable.
• Handle additional legal matters and special projects as needed to support the company’s evolving business needs.

Your qualifications, your influence:
To be successful in the role, you must possess the following skills

●    Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
●    Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and in good standing.
●    Minimum of 10 years of relevant legal experience.
●    Significant experience with mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions, commercial transactions, and general corporate legal matters.
●    Strong background drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
●    Experience with finance, lending, credit facilities, capital structure, or related corporate finance matters.
●    Prior in-house counsel experience strongly preferred.
●    Experience advising executive leadership and cross-functional business teams.
●    Experience supporting a company with international operations preferred.
●    Experience with distribution, supply chain, technology, electronics, manufacturing, or similar industries is a plus.
●    Familiarity with trade compliance, export controls, sanctions, anti-corruption, data privacy, and other global compliance matters is helpful.
●    Experience managing outside counsel and coordinating multi-jurisdictional legal matters preferred.

Preferred skills and technical familiarity:
Adding additional insight, and a growth mindset, will elevate your contribution in this role

• Strong business judgment and ability to provide practical, solutions-oriented legal advice.
• Excellent transactional, drafting, negotiation, and issue-spotting skills.
• Ability to lead complex projects and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, global business environment.
• Strong understanding of corporate governance, commercial contracting, M&A processes, and finance-related legal issues.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with executive leadership, business teams, outside counsel, and international stakeholders.
• High degree of professionalism, discretion, integrity, and sound judgment.
• Comfortable working independently while collaborating closely with legal and business colleagues.
• Proactive, organized, detail-oriented, and commercially minded.
• Ability and willingness to handle a broad range of legal matters, including matters outside core areas of expertise, as business needs require.

Benefits: 

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• Ongoing training and professional development opportunities
• Collaborative and vibrant work culture
• PTO
• 401K