Associate General Counsel, Litigation, Employment, and Compliance

Verra Mobility • Mesa, AZ

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About The Position

Verra Mobility is seeking an Associate General Counsel to join its dynamic legal team. This role will provide broad-based legal support across a range of operational matters, including litigation, employment, and compliance. The Associate General Counsel will serve as a key legal advisor on litigation, employment law, enterprise compliance infrastructure, and ethics oversight. This position involves partnering closely with cross-functional teams to identify legal risks, develop effective solutions, and support company objectives while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The role offers a wide range of legal subject matters and varied challenges in a fast-paced environment focused on profitable, rapid, and sustainable growth.

Requirements

• JD from an accredited law school and in good standing with a state bar association.
• 10+ years as a practicing attorney with broad experience in general legal services, including litigation, compliance, ethics, employment, regulatory compliance, privacy, and commercial matters.
• Experience designing, administering, or materially supporting corporate compliance programs, including policies, risk assessments, training, hotline administration, investigations, remediation, and reporting.
• Working knowledge of anti-corruption, anti-trust, insider trading, conflicts of interest, third-party due diligence, trade compliance, and other enterprise compliance risk areas.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex legal issues in a simple, understandable manner with colleagues of varying legal knowledge across the company.
• Ability to work well in time-sensitive situations and fast-paced environments; and effectively manage multiple projects or matters with competing deadlines.
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills.
• Solid business instinct and judgment.
• High degree of organization and efficiency with demonstrated attention to detail.
• Strong collaborative skills, and proven team orientation.
• Personal integrity, sound judgment, and strong ethics in business and personal conduct.
• Enthusiasm, energy, and motivation to contribute and thrive in a growing company where roles continually adapt as the company evolves.
• Adaptable and comfortable with change, organizational evolution, and ambiguity.

Nice To Haves

• Experience at a law firm servicing business clients.
• Experience as an in-house attorney.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior legal advisor to executive leadership on litigation exposure, employment risks, enterprise compliance, and privacy/security matters.
• Manage and oversee litigation, disputes, and pre-litigation matters, including supervising outside counsel and coordinating legal strategy.
• Provide legal counsel on employment law matters, including employee relations, workplace policies, investigations, and compliance with federal, state, and local labor laws.
• Lead and enhance the company’s global corporate compliance program, including code of conduct governance, policy framework management, risk assessments, training, communications, and program enhancements aligned with regulatory expectations.
• Oversee ethics and investigations processes, including hotline administration, internal investigations, remediation efforts, disciplinary coordination, responding to government inquiries, and managing interactions with regulators and enforcement agencies.
• Ensure compliance across key enterprise risk areas, including anti-corruption, competition, conflicts of interest, insider trading, third-party due diligence, trade compliance, and other compliance obligations.
• Partner with Security, IT, HR, Internal Audit, and operational leadership teams on cybersecurity, privacy, AI governance, and information governance matters.
• Provide leadership and mentorship within the Legal Department and help drive legal operational excellence and scalable processes.
• Develop and support compliance reporting, metrics, and strategic recommendations to strengthen internal controls and promote a culture of integrity.
• Recommend investigation pathways, policy enhancements, training priorities, and control improvements, while escalating matters involving material financial exposure, senior executive conduct, or significant reputational risk.
• Support Board and executive-level reporting related to litigation, compliance, and enterprise risk management.
• Advise on and optimize legal risk and compliance considerations, while suggesting creative, business-supportive solutions.
• Identify potential legal challenges and run them to ground.
• Proactively identify and anticipate emerging legal and regulatory issues that might impact our products and services.
• Support the company’s privacy and data protection program, including advising on the collection, access, use, sharing, retention, and protection of personally identifiable information (PII), and ensuring compliance with applicable privacy laws, regulations, and internal policies.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions by assisting with legal due diligence, risk assessment, integration planning, and coordination with internal stakeholders and outside counsel.
• Collaborate with IP counsel on patent and other IP-related matters.
• Develop strong collaborative working relationships with colleagues and business stakeholders.
• Manage outside counsel, as required.
• Support the Deputy General Counsel with day-to-day legal management and workflow.
• Support other legal team and executive leaders with special projects, as needed.
• Handle the occasional fire drill.

Benefits

• Verra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree