🕒 3 days ago
Lead legal advice across the bank, advising senior management and the Board on regulatory, commercial and governance matters while managing legal risk, disputes, transactions and external counsel.
General Counsel – San Francisco Bay Area (987-SLS)
📅 Aug 31
📍 🇺🇸 San Francisco Bay Area - Hybrid💰 $300k - $350k / year🎙️ Leadership⚖️ General Counsel💼 Full-Time
Corporate LawContractsBusiness TransactionsGovernance
📜 Description
- Serve as the senior legal advisor to the parent organization, its affiliated entities, executive leadership, and governing boards in a complex, matrixed environment.
- Provide day-to-day counsel on general corporate and commercial matters, with particular emphasis on contracts, business transactions, governance, and enterprise risk.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a broad range of commercial agreements and other contracts supporting operations across the organization.
- Advise senior leadership on legal and business issues affecting healthcare, senior living, nonprofit operations, insurance-related activities, investments, real estate, and other operating businesses.
- Support legal and regulatory matters arising from a regulated senior living and healthcare environment.
- Oversee and efficiently manage outside counsel across specialized areas, including senior living and healthcare, employment, insurance, real estate and land use, litigation, and other regulatory matters.
🛠️ Requirements
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar; California bar membership or eligibility is preferred.
- Significant, broad-based corporate legal experience with strong capabilities in general corporate matters, contracts, business transactions, governance, and management of outside counsel.
- Prior General Counsel experience is strongly preferred. Exceptional candidates who have served as a senior in-house #2 or as outside counsel with substantial General Counsel-level responsibility will also be considered.
- Demonstrated experience advising CEOs, senior executives, and boards of directors.
- Strong business acumen, maturity, judgment, and the ability to operate effectively within a complex, matrixed organization.
- Experience working in a regulated industry or advising regulated businesses is a plus.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, relationship-building, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage a broad portfolio of matters while knowing when to engage and oversee specialized outside counsel.
- Ability to travel periodically within California, including to Southern California, for board and business meetings.
- Experience in senior living or continuing care retirement communities.
✨ Benefits
- Robust retirement program including a safe-harbor 401(k) contribution that varies by age.
- 401(k) match.
- 457(b) plan.
Full job description
Our client, a long-established, mission-driven California organization with a diversified group of affiliated nonprofit and operating entities, is seeking a General Counsel to lead the legal function across a complex, matrixed enterprise. The General Counsel will be employed by the parent organization and manage legal matters across six affiliated entities, supporting multiple CEOs, senior leaders, and boards of directors.
This is a hybrid position with a preference for candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The organization has offices and operations throughout California, including Northern and Southern California.
Reporting to the CEO who oversees shared services, the General Counsel will serve as a practical, business-oriented advisor across the enterprise. The role will have accountability to four CEOs through the shared-services model and will work closely with leadership across the seven corporate entities. This is an established legal function with a long history of stable leadership, and the incoming General Counsel will inherit a model that relies on outside counsel for specialized matters while taking primary ownership of general corporate, commercial, contracts, governance, and day-to-day legal needs.
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Additional qualifications which are a plus (though not required):
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