Legal Counsel (Remote, US)

Renew Home

4h • $165,000 - $205,000 • Remote

About The Position

Renew Home is seeking a Legal Counsel to join our growing legal team! We're looking for a dynamic and business-minded lawyer with commercial and product counseling experience to provide sound, practical and actionable legal advice in support of our mission.

Requirements

• JD from an accredited law school and admitted to practice law in good standing.
• 5+ years of legal practice, including in-house experience.
• Solution-oriented, business-minded, and pragmatic.
• Strategic, results-driven, proactive, and resourceful.
• Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Exceptional judgment and ability to balance risk with corporate objectives.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Superior interpersonal skills.
• Intellectual curiosity and willingness to take on new challenges.

Nice To Haves

• Business-forward in-house lawyer with leadership skills and a proven record of successfully handling complex legal issues, both commercial and product counsel experience preferred.
• Experience negotiating custom commercial deals with regulated electric utilities, retail energy providers, or other load serving entities.
• A legal- and thought-partner for our business development leadership, with direct impact on helping them accelerate deals and win new business.

Responsibilities

• Serve as counsel in preparing, reviewing, negotiating and advising on a wide range of commercial agreements, with a focus on SaaS, services, and procurement agreements.
• Support commercial contracts, partnerships including with regulated electric utilities, and transactions that support consumer energy solutions.
• Advise cross-functional teams on legal, regulatory, and compliance aspects of product development, launch, licensing, distribution, and marketing.
• Provide guidance on intellectual property, data privacy, open source, and technology licensing issues.
• Identify potential legal and business risks in contracts and develop approaches to mitigate them.
• Support corporate housekeeping and manage outside counsel.
• Work dynamically across the traditional in-house portfolio with minimal supervision.
• Provide legal review and business-focused legal advice across all departments and functions.
• Address broader strategic issues and matters of first impression.

Benefits

• A full-time position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is: $165k - $205k. We use market data and consider your job family, background, skills, experience, and U.S. work location to determine compensation within our established pay range.
• Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.
• Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first.
• Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.
• 401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same.
• Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.

What This Job Offers

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