Empower
Senior Counsel
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Senior Counsel
Our Vision & Culture
Our vision for the future is built on giving our people the freedom to transform their own lives. We foster a flexible work environment, fluid career paths, and internal mobility. Purpose, well-being, and work-life balance are core values, and Empower celebrates an inclusive environment where employees support causes integral to their values. Chart your growth while helping customers achieve financial freedom.
About the Role
Empower seeks a Senior Counsel—an experienced attorney with a strong business-oriented mindset to advance our contracting process through legal analysis and advisory work. This role specializes in contract drafting, review, and negotiation, focusing on retirement plan recordkeeping, trust services, advisory, and vendor agreements. You’ll provide critical legal risk assessment, drive efficiencies, and champion innovation—bridging business strategy with meticulous compliance.
A discriminating combination of global law, fiduciary responsibility, and commercial objectives is pivotal here. They have a talent for recognizing where legal principles intersect with business imperatives and can spare no energy for rigid formulaic agreement art. The talent announced will be called to develop varied scientific and operational options to leave us in a stronger and more profitable trajectory. Expect to interact closely as an anticipated before partner with business stakeholders and empirical specialists.
Responsibilities
- Contract Expertise – Lead, review, and negotiate client contract documents for retirement services across corporate, governmental, nonprofit, union, multi-employer, and institutional plans.
- Vendor Agreements – Draft and negotiate third-party contracts, including:
- Service agreements, sourcing agreements, statements of work (SOWs)
- Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)
- Software licensing and SaaS agreements
- Amendments and intricate agreements with vendors/providers
- Transactions & Strategies – Guide complex commercial transactions, anticipate issues, and proactively counsel leadership to deliver positive outcomes.
- Risk Assessment – Demonstrate a legal and regulatoryatomic intuition in contract terms, strategic integrative solutions, and mitigating risks and compliance burdens.
- Stakeholder Collaboration – Interface with internal teams, client partners, vendors, and external counsel, clarifying complex legal positions for business and strategy teams.
- Legal Advisory – Advise on contract structuring, interpretation, compliance, enforcement, and risk evaluation for internal teams.
- Transaction Support – Contribute to initiatives like due diligence (acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations) with specialized research and contract facilitation.
- Policy & Process Improvement – Lead development/maintenance of policies, contract templates, scalability tools, and repeatable low-risk processes with efficiency gains.
- Resource Management – Steer team contributions, time allocations, and informed decision-making to enhance service levels and reduce operational risk.
- Project Execution – Juggle multiple demanding priorities while achieving adherence to deadlines. Deliver efficiently—whether independently or as a collaborative team-within-a-team to foster peak productivity.
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Requirements
- Education & License: J.D. degree from an accredited law school, with state bar admission in good standing.
- Experience: 5+ years in a legal role with a focus on contract drafting, negotiation, and review, predominantly with large, sophisticated clients—preferably in financial services or retirement services. Experience with:
- Mutual fund partnerships, service/distribution agreements, and associated regulatory frameworks
- Negotiating agreements, managing underwriting processes, and assessing compliance risk documents and projects
- Technical Tools: Advanced fluency in MS Word, Outlook, and Excel.
- Skills:
- Strong ability to decode, diagnose, and parse complex legal and commercial transactions
- Proficient communication across all organizational levels—sales, procurement, and vendor partnerships.
- Principle-based approach to customer-centricity and agility.
- Discretion, morals, and confidentiality in handling sensitive information.
- Organizational skill under duress with foresight to manage priorities, motivations, and dynamic needs.
- Familiarity with privacy laws and data protection.
- Authorization: Must be eligible to work in the U.S. (no sponsorship available for visas or current work authorization will be extended).
Sample Outcomes You’ll Contribute To
Empower’s expansion of integrated plan support platforms, Parts X become accustomed to their penetration gains in FAFSA, DB plan activities, ESG palms & 401(k) plan adeptness. Incentively providing progressive opportunities through detailed technical ties in our workflow. most certainly solidifying extraordinary legal expertise across this array.
What We Offer
Learn how key matchmaking benefits foster productivity, growth, and fulfillment while securing your life and creating an enduring legacy. Our comprehensive benefits portfolio recognizes values at every stage of development:
- Well-Being Support:
- Healthcare: Competitive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage
- Retirement Savings Plan: 401(k) eligibility with generous 6% company matching, potential discretionary contributions, and financial advisory access. Comprehensive investment tools and choices.
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Financial Development:
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year.
- Stock market navigational assistance for smart allocations.
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Time Off:
- Generous starting PTO, forty paid company holidays, three floater holidays, and a culturally business-casual budget encouraging comfort.
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Volunteering:
- 16 paid volunteer hours/year Available through LDNA programs
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Work-Life Balance & Professional Growth: Abundant paid leave provisions:
- Family-planning flexibility: Deep 3–14-week paid instances for new parents.
- Disability Support: Paid coverage – short and long-term, plus FMLA as required.
- Continual tie-ins to optimize job satisfaction.
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Community Engagement:
- Diverse Business Resource Groups (BRGs)—inclusive of employees and facilitation worldwide.
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Compensation:
- Range ($138K - $200K) based on responsibilities, location, and experience. Performance evaluations for Non-sales bonus structure, Sales profit-sharing incentives, or above-scale potential.
Equivocal adjustments come to pass via remunerative differentiation of flexibility services—rewarding experience and meet renowned performance goals.
Essential Additional Protections
"Remote/Hybrid Work Guarantee"
- Our flexible setup lets you work from wherever you feel most inspired. To qualify:
- Supply: A dedicated workspace in your residence with limited disruptions.
- Reliable, wired-speed wired connection with fiber, cable, or DSL internet.
- Contingency: You may experience occasional on-site work demands if space or connectivity offer otherwise insufficient conditions. Minimal in-house appointments assure lack of conventional metropolitan constraints but cluster their entirety into dedication sessions where logically demanding business metrics align.
Inclusivity Commitment
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we value diversity, equity, and inclusion. Changes are made to advance fairness, and we welcome contributions from people of all health statutes, experiences, and backgrounds independently of any protected characteristic under local laws. This company collected and designed a proactive perspective and level globally.
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