The Senior Staff Counsel ensures Asurion maintains ongoing compliance with laws and regulations governing portable electronic insurance, service contracts, and ancillary products and services in all jurisdictions in which Asurion conducts business. The Senior Staff Counsel will assist in directing, coaching, and mentoring Asurion colleagues across departments who work collaboratively with the regulatory and client teams to provide compliant solutions to business and program questions and enforce company policies and procedures.
The ideal candidate will be a dynamic leader, with excellent issue spotting, problem-solving and decision-making skills, strong time management, and may have some experience in insurance and technology industries and/or has a minimum of 5 years of in-house experience.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Accurately assesses and manages risk through knowledge of Asurion’s business and relevant legal issues, including reconciling the implication of past precedent with current and future needs
- Works to support client accounts and other regulatory attorneys, and act as a liaison to broker creative solutions for relevant stakeholders
- Demonstrates the ability to effectively understand, consider, and address the client or business while mitigating risk exposure
- Partner with product team to advise on and facilitate the launch of new products
- Establish strong collaborative relationships with cross functional team, including legal, customer solutions, finance, marketing, program management, client services, and product
- Analyze and stay current with state and federal laws and regulations for insurance, service contract, and consumer protection requirements
- Implements and oversees compliance requirements, policies, and practices.
- Conduct in-depth and ad-hoc research projects
- Have functional understanding of the company’s risk profile and the impact of product decisions on the company’s core financial performance
- Actively seek operational understanding and implications of initiatives
- Develop thorough understanding of Asurion’s business, processes, and goals to provide innovative legal solutions that solve unique or challenging problems.
- Demonstrate good analytical skills and judgment
- Act as a trusted advisor
Qualified:
- J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and admission to the bar
- 5+ years of previous experience in progressively more responsible compliance roles within a regulated industry
- Experience in marketing, advertisement and consumer protection a plus
- Prior experience working with technology in a regulated industry preferred; fluency with technology required
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Aptitude and motivation for staying current with regulatory changes in insurance, service contract, and consumer protection regulations
- Able to spot regulatory issues and take steps to resolve them
- Must be able to independently handle a variety and number of legal matters under supervision of more experienced legal counsel
- Demonstrate sound judgment and ability to strategize and plan initiatives that enhance the company’s ability to deliver compliant products and programs to meet client needs
- Able to keep multiple projects and initiatives organized and moving forward in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent time management skills
- Professional interpersonal and organizational skills, and experience at communicating with colleagues at various levels of the organization (support functions to executive team)
- Able to work well within a team environment, as well as individually and collaborate effectively
- Success working independently with little supervision while delivering results that meet or exceed expectations
- Must be highly proficient with full Microsoft suite; familiarity with O365 a plus
- Occasional travel