Chief Investigations Counsel

GE Vernova

3d • $248,000 - $350,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Chief Investigations Counsel is the senior attorney responsible for designing, leading, and continuously improving the company’s global legal investigations program. This role oversees intake, triage, investigation, and resolution of allegations involving potential violations of law, regulation, and key policies (including anti-corruption, fraud, competition/antitrust, trade compliance, human rights, data privacy and security). The position ensures that investigations are privileged, independent, timely, and defensible, and that outcomes drive meaningful remediation, discipline, and process and controls improvements. The role also serves as a trusted adviser to segment compliance leaders and senior management on significant matters and risk trends. The Chief Investigations Counsel will model the company’s values and integrity, maintaining independence and objectivity, protecting whistleblowers, fostering a speak up culture, and ensuring a continuous feedback loop to improve the Compliance function.

Requirements

• J.D. from top tier U.S. law school
• A minimum of 15+ years of relevant legal experience, including leading complex internal or government‑facing investigations; mix of top‑tier law firm, enforcement agency, and in‑house experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise in anti‑corruption, fraud, competition, trade sanctions/export controls, workplace conduct, data privacy, and related risk areas.
• Track record advising senior executives and boards; experience with cross‑border global matters, differing legal regimes, and cultural contexts.
• Hands‑on experience coordinating eDiscovery, digital forensics, and incident response.
• Prior responsibility for managing an investigations docket and global team, with measurable program improvements.
• Exceptional investigative judgment, interview skills, and written advocacy; ability to distill complex facts into clear, decisive findings.
• Deep understanding of privilege, work product, confidentiality, employment law and privacy considerations in corporate investigations
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Professional fluency in English is required

Nice To Haves

• Outstanding communication skills capability, with ability to think clearly and quickly under pressure, synthesize large volumes of information and distil to dispositive issues that are communicated clearly and concisely
• Demonstrated complex problem-solving and analytical skills
• Highest personal integrity with demonstrated ability to handle confidential, sensitive matters in a discreet and respectful manner
• Self-motivated with ability to handle a large and varied caseload simultaneously, to multitask, and to work independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to interface effectively with cross functional teams throughout the organization
• Experience leading a global team and with people leadership and mentor skills, including recruiting, development, performance management, compensation
• Data fluency with case metrics, trend analysis, and dashboarding; proficiency with case management tools and eDiscovery platforms.
• Superior collaboration skills across Legal, HR, Internal Audit, Security, Finance, DT, and business segments; effective management of outside counsel and experts.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally

Responsibilities

• Program leadership and governance
• Build and lead a high‑performing, global investigations team; establish workload balancing and independence safeguards; manage outside counsel and experts; oversee budget and resource allocation.
• Architect and accountable for the global investigations team and framework, including case triage protocols, escalation criteria, matter classification and management, privilege and work-product protocols, document preservation, chain-of-custody, and reporting standards.
• Support the speak‑up ecosystem and partner closely with the leader of Open Reporting to ensure consistent matter management, classification, and reporting.
• Prepare root‑cause reviews and lessons‑learned to inform Compliance and Business Segment leadership to drive a closed feedback loop for remediation.
• Develop and maintain investigation playbooks addressing corruption/bribery (FCPA/UKBA), fraud and asset misappropriation, competition/antitrust, sanctions/export controls, privacy/security incidents, and third‑party misconduct.
• Define and manage escalation to the Chief Compliance Officer, including materiality thresholds, potential government disclosure/ self‑reporting, and crisis communications alignment.
• Case management and execution
• Lead or supervise significant, sensitive, cross‑border, or executive‑level investigations; oversee and coordinate matter support through regional counsel, DT, HR, Security, and external counsel/experts.
• Establish investigation protocols and processes along with case metrics and KPIs.
• Ensure investigation and interview procedures are designed to be conducted lawfully and respectfully as well as with fairness, confidentiality, and cultural/linguistic sensitivity.
• Direct eDiscovery and digital forensics strategy and operations in partnership with Litigation and DT; ensure lawful data handling, defensible collection, and preservation under applicable privacy and employment laws.
• Oversee the team’s efforts to draft clear, objective investigative plans, memoranda, and reports with fact findings, credibility assessments, policy/legal analysis, and recommended remediation and disciplinary action.
• Coordinate remediation plans with Compliance and Business Segment leadership.
• Regulatory and stakeholder engagement
• Advise on legal risk and potential self‑disclosure to regulators; manage interactions with enforcement agencies and monitor/independent compliance assessors as applicable.
• Prepare periodic dashboards and narrative reports for management and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors on trends, systemic risks, and program effectiveness.
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert on DOJ/SEC guidance, global whistleblower regimes, and relevant standards (e.g., ISO 37001/37301), ensuring the investigations program meets or exceeds all regulator expectations and industry standards.
• Policy, training, and continuous improvement
• Draft and update investigations‑related policies, non‑retaliation, and disciplinary guidelines; align with Code of Conduct and enterprise risk management.
• Benchmark against peers and incorporate best practices, analytics, and technology innovations to improve speed and consistency and leverage leading edge technology and investigation practices.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• prescription drug coverage
• access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
• access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
• GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
• access to Fidelity Executive Services
• tuition assistance
• adoption assistance
• paid parental leave
• disability benefits
• life insurance
• 12 paid holidays
• permissive time off
• the Restoration Plan, a nonqualified plan with company credits on eligible pay above IRS limits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed