Description:

An American Auto Insurance Company is looking for an experienced legal professional with a background in marketing products to serve as an embedded legal advisor. Your role will be to support the business as they develop new marketing strategies and refine their work. You'll do this by building a strong relationship with the marketing team to understand their goals and plans, quickly learning their objectives and how they plan on achieving them, and then advising on legal requirements in language appropriate for smart businesspeople who don't have a legal background. As you see where the marketing unit is headed, you'll also advise them on future risks and opportunities. When the marketing unit needs specialized legal expertise, you'll coordinate with your colleagues in the legal department who have specialized skills to make sure your business unit gets the support it needs to excel.

Primary Responsibilities:

Under general supervision, understand all key business objectives and means of accomplishing them for the marketing team
Provide legal advice related to the marketing team's plans and anticipate future legal needs
Coordinate support for the marketing unit from other parts of the legal department
Use wide range of legal knowledge to spot any implications of business choices that could interact with multiple legal subject areas, primarily the marketing team

Basic Qualifications:

Must have at least 5 years experience at a law firm or in-house
Must have a law degree and an active law license to practice in the United States of America
Must have experience in marketing/advertising law
Strong listening and communication skills
Ability to quickly digest and understand business plans, processes, and procedures
Ability to provide legal advice with incomplete information
Superb judgement about legal and legal-adjacent risks as well as mitigation opportunities
Must be solution oriented
Must have demonstrated experience solving business problems and advancing business metrics