[Hiring] Director, Associate General Counsel @Delta Dental

Role Description

The Associate General Counsel leads, provides strategic guidance to, and works through multiple teams of highly skilled professionals and people leaders, covering a wide variety of legal specializations in support of all functions of the Enterprise. As an in-house legal leader, this position exerts influence and collaborates with leaders across the company, including the General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel, to provide timely advice on a wide range of legal matters, and plays a critical role in informing the strategy of the enterprise and representing the company within the industry with a wide variety of external stakeholders.

• Provide high-quality legal service through cross-functional teams to resolve complex legal issues in service of enterprise strategic outcomes.
• Act as a legal and business generalist, understanding critical legal issues for the enterprise from a wide variety of disciplines to comprehensively counsel and guide leadership.
• Coach and guide the Assistant General Counsel in collaborating with leaders across the enterprise and within the Division to provide high-quality, integrated, and proactive legal services that innovatively protect our company and help us achieve our business objectives.
• Cultivate and manage relationships across the enterprise with business stakeholders, including participation in cross-functional strategic business planning.
• Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the enterprise and industry to identify trends/opportunities, to formulate business-appropriate legal advice/strategies, and to serve as a resource to enterprise leaders.
• Promote proper organizational governance and management accountability by escalating legal and risk management issues to the appropriate level and ensuring that the Deputy General Counsel, General Counsel, and enterprise leaders are well informed of department activities and initiatives.
• With the strategic guidance of the Deputy General Counsel, work to strengthen the legal talent landscape to enable business roadmaps by forecasting future talent gaps, assessing bench strength, developing talent, and succession planning.
• Collaborate across the Division to align on Legal Department goals and execution strategies, with the overall objective of ensuring the Company maintains a solid legal foundation upon which to do business. Coach the Assistant General Counsel in doing the same for their practice group.
• Accountable for building budget requirements (including outside counsel budget), and for ensuring proper management of the department budget.
• Where needed, provide oversight to lawyers and Assistant General Counsels on outside counsel management and serve as a liaison for outside counsel for complex initiatives.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience providing business-appropriate legal advice to leaders and 5+ years of demonstrated success leading, managing, and developing lawyers to deliver high-quality outcomes highly preferred.
• 12 years of experience with a bachelor's degree, including 3 or more years of supervisory experience required.
• Ability to provide global risk assessment and risk mitigation strategies.
• Ability to collaborate and bring cross-functional teams together.
• Adaptable and flexible; comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Ready, willing, and able to contribute and refine new and innovative solutions.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; skill in using logic and reasoning to identify solutions, conclusions, or approaches to processes.
• Self-motivated and goal-oriented, with the ability to determine strategies and objectives with little guidance.
• Ability to take decisive action and provide direction with little guidance based on desired outcomes and resources.
• Strong communication skills with a mindset of educating and empowering clients.
• Understanding of the business of insurance and demonstrated ability to advise clients toward success outcomes based on both legal and business considerations.

Requirements

• Licensed attorney required upon hire (varies by state).

Benefits

• Competitive base and incentive pay.
• 401(k) with robust matching and non-matching contributions.
• Rich medical & pharmacy benefits.
• 100% employer-paid dental and vision benefits.
• Holistic wellbeing program with deep financial incentives.
• Generous paid time off plus 12 paid holidays and your birthday off.
• Culture of growth and learning: career development; tuition reimbursement; recognition program.
• Family support: adoption assistance, fertility treatment, child, elder & pet care assistance.
• Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities.
• Employee discount program.