Assistant General Counsel
Rewards Network
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $145,000 - $175,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Review and approve complex marketing copy to ensure legal compliance and risk mitigation.
- Edit, negotiate, and finalize client agreements to protect company interests and foster strong commercial relationships.
- Support and then lead legal efforts on strategic partnership agreements, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.
- Counsel marketing, product, and data teams on go-to-market strategies and regulatory considerations.
- Provide general product counseling, offering practical legal guidance throughout the product lifecycle.
- Interface regularly with senior leadership and board members, delivering clear legal insights on business initiatives.
- Support the corporate secretary by assisting with governance matters and preparing board materials.
- Identify and resolve legal risks in commercial activities, ensuring alignment with company goals.
- Drive continuous improvement of contract templates, playbooks, and legal processes.
- Champion a collaborative, business-oriented approach to solving legal and commercial challenges.
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- JD from an accredited law school
- Admitted to practice law in Illinois, or the ability to gain admission within six months of being hired
- 5-7 years of experience as a practicing attorney
- Leadership experience is preferred
- Experience in at least two of the following practice areas: marketing and IP counseling, new product development, structuring and negotiating strategic partnerships, corporate transactions, general business counseling
- Law firm and in-house experience (Preferred)
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package, which includes:
- Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant customers.
- Sales Academy: In-depth training
- Competitive Time Off Benefits: including flexible PTO, 11 company holidays, and parental leave.
- 401(k) plan with a company match
- Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
- Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free.
- Two dental plan options and a vision plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
- Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans
- Short Term and Long-Term disability
- Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance, supplemental employee, spouse, and child life insurance
- Employee Life Assistance Program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
legal compliancecontract negotiationproduct counselingrisk mitigationgo-to-market strategiesstrategic partnershipscorporate transactionsbusiness counselingmarketing counselingintellectual property counseling
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingnegotiationinterpersonal skillsorganizational skillsstrategic thinkinginsight deliverycontinuous improvement
Certifications
JD from an accredited law schooladmitted to practice law in Illinois