Franchise Platform Corporate Counsel

Homefront Brands•Huntersville, NC

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

HomeFront Brands is seeking a high-agency, business-minded attorney to join its Legal & Compliance team. Reporting directly to the Chief Legal Officer, the Corporate Counsel will take ownership of franchise compliance, commercial contracts, legal operations, and day-to-day legal matters across the company’s portfolio of franchise brands. This hands-on position is suited to an attorney who can identify needs, develop practical recommendations, drive matters to completion, and maintain accurate legal and compliance systems. It offers direct mentorship from the Chief Legal Officer, close exposure to business operators, and the opportunity to develop expertise in franchise law while taking on progressively greater responsibility. Franchise experience is helpful but not required. The position is based in the Charlotte area, with regular in-person work at HomeFront Brands’ Huntersville, North Carolina office. It is a hybrid role and is not structured as remote. Travel is based on business needs. The role is full-time and exempt.

Requirements

J.D. from an accredited law school.
Active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and eligibility to practice as in-house counsel in North Carolina.
Approximately 2–5 years of relevant legal experience in a law firm, corporate legal department, or comparable environment.
Meaningful experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
Experience administering or supporting a compliance function, including monitoring obligations, identifying deficiencies, pursuing remediation, documenting outcomes, and escalating material issues.
Strong legal drafting, research, analytical, and issue-spotting skills.
Ability to manage numerous active matters and competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with business operators and cross-functional teams.
Willingness and ability to work regularly from HomeFront Brands’ Huntersville-area office.

Nice To Haves

Experience with franchise law, franchise compliance, or franchise-system administration.
Experience with contract lifecycle management platforms, particularly LinkSquares.
Experience working with Finance or operational teams on compliance and collections matters.
Exposure to corporate governance, diligence, entity matters, disputes, or legal operations.
Experience with Monday.com, DocuSign, SharePoint, or similar workflow and document-management tools.

Responsibilities

Help manage franchise compliance across the company’s portfolio of brands.
Monitor franchisee obligations and work with Finance, brand teams, and other stakeholders to identify and address compliance deficiencies.
Track insurance certificates, required documentation, payment-related issues, and other franchisee compliance requirements.
Draft and issue default notices, noncompliance communications, fee-related agreements, amendments, releases, and other franchise system documents.
Follow compliance matters through cure, resolution, or escalation, and maintain complete and accurate franchisee files, system records, and compliance documentation.
Draft, review, and negotiate vendor agreements, master services agreements, SaaS and technology agreements, referral arrangements, and other commercial contracts.
Lead routine contract matters from intake through negotiation, execution, and filing.
Identify material legal and business risks and provide practical recommendations to the Chief Legal Officer and business stakeholders.
Maintain LinkSquares as the authoritative contract-management platform for vendor agreements, including accurate records, key dates, and executed documents.
Take first-pass ownership of legal deliverables, including research, drafting, issue analysis, and stakeholder coordination.
Maintain assigned matters and department priorities in the Legal team’s project-management system.
Participate in regular Legal team standups and proactively communicate status, risks, delays, and recommended next steps.
Help maintain organized, accurate, transaction-ready legal records that can support efficient diligence.
Improve legal templates, playbooks, intake processes, execution workflows, filing practices, and compliance controls.
Work with the Chief Legal Officer, Legal administrative support, outside counsel, Finance, Franchise Development, Operations, and individual brand teams.
Support other corporate, franchise, dispute, governance, and legal matters as business needs evolve.