Director, Corporate Attorney (Employment/Commercial Litigation)

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Maxar Intelligence is currently seeking a Director, Corporate Attorney, (Commercial Litigation/Employment) to join the inhouse Legal team in Westminster, CO or Herndon, VA. Maxar Intelligence is a provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand, and navigate our changing planet. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale and cost effectiveness. As a workplace, Maxar is dynamic and fast-paced with many novel and interesting challenges and opportunities.  

In this role, you will directly manage employment law matters for Maxar Intelligence, including the provision of substantive advice on a wide variety of employment law areas, both domestic and international.  This role also entails the management of litigation matters, the subject of which can cover a broad range of commercial, regulatory and employment topics.  Litigation management will include an active role in litigation strategy, document retention and collection, litigation portfolio management, outside counsel oversight and proactive dispute mitigation advice.

    

Maxar is a purpose-driven company, guided by its values including operating with integrity and honoring commitments to customers, partners and employees.  In this role, you will be instrumental in helping the company to manage its operations and team in a manner consistent with the company’s values.  You will report to the Senior Director, Associate General Counsel. 

Responsibilities and experiences/skills expected for this role include:

• Substantively knowledgeable in primary areas of employment law, with experience practicing in the area.  Areas for which substantive knowledge is expected include complex employment class action cases, anti-discrimination laws, anti-harassment laws, wage and hour laws, the ADA, FLSA and FMLA, among others. 
• Manage litigation matters covering a variety of commercial topics including commercial litigation, breach of contract and regulatory issues.
• Experience in e-discovery practices, portfolio management, risk assessment and management of outside counsel.
• Lead and/or support on corporate investigations covering various matters.
• Partner and support to a corporate compliance function, particularly as it relates to regulatory, cyber and employment matters. 
• Experience in independently, and without outside counsel resources, assessing, managing and resolving disputes, including employment and commercial disputes.
• Effectively provide legal advice and excellent client service to employees at all levels of the organization.  Experience in interacting with senior executives.
• Strong partnership and collaboration skills.
• Ability to quickly learn and assimilate the technical and regulated aspects of the business and its operations.  Comfortable and competent at managing complex problems and gray matter.
• Exceptional writing skills.
• Skilled at ingesting high volumes of information, assessing significance and making timely decisions based on the same.
• Takes initiative and owns opportunities to improve processes, drive efficiencies, train others and enhance productivity.
• Highly responsive both in time and in substance.
• Participates with senior management to establish strategic plans and objectives.
• Experience making and adhering to budgets.  Good financial acumen.
• Interest in playing a utility role as needed, stepping outside comfort zone and taking on responsibilities or assignments not neatly characterized as litigation or employment.

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
• Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from an ABA accredited law school
• Licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction and in good standing with the Bar
• Minimum of 8 years of experience practicing law, including at least 4 years with employment law

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing complex commercial litigation and/or employment class action cases
• Strong legal reasoning and drafting skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate complicated legal issues concisely to clients
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate on a cross functional team and in a fast-paced environment
• Professional positive approach to daily business and challenges
• Excellent client relations
• In-house and law firm experience
• Ability to travel for work as necessary; minimal travel expected for this role

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Our salary ranges are market-driven and set to allow for flexibility. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidate’s unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:

$158,000.00 - $262,000.00 annually.

 

Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.

Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.

Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.