Overview In this role, you will partner with business leadership to provide pragmatic, risk-aware counsel on complex commercial transactions and negotiate key agreements. You will help drive sound risk management and contribute to a fast-paced, tech-driven environment. As a hands-on legal generalist, you'll shape templates, playbooks, and processes while supporting cross-functional teams to protect business interests and enable growth. This position offers visibility and impact within Nextpower's mission to accelerate the global energy transition.
Responsibilities- Provide legal guidance to business unit leaders and mitigate risk to enable successful outcomes
- Draft and negotiate commercial and ancillary agreements
- Support and advise the legal commercial team and other internal business units
- Collaborate to implement process improvements and update internal playbooks and templates
- Manage internal SLAs and prioritize in a fast-moving environment
- Own specific legal projects and develop subject matter expertise for customer contracts
- Review solicitations and strategize responses, drafting sections on legal topics
- Engage outside counsel when needed
- Assist with complex terms such as liability limitations, indemnification, and termination rights
- Participate in Legal Department discussions on corporate policies and regulatory updates
- Contribute to continuing legal education and legal updates on changing laws
Key requirements- Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school
- Licensed to practice law in the United States and active state bar membership
- Minimum of 7 years of experience as outside commercial contracts counsel
- Experience advising executive clients on business and transactional matters
- Demonstrated leadership in a technology-driven company context
- Hands-on legal generalist capability
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to analyze complex issues and present executive-level recommendations
- Ability to build strong client relationships while maintaining compliance independence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- interpersonal excellence
- executive presence
- collaboration
- drafting and negotiating commercial agreements
- risk assessment and mitigation
- indemnification and liability limitation clauses
