About the role

Legal Counsel supporting GM Energy by providing expert-level legal advice on transactions and helping shape the overall strategy for operational growth.

Responsibilities

Provide expert-level legal advice with a primary focus on complex commercial transactions, new business models, and operational growth initiatives.
Work directly with senior business leaders to shape strategy and execution for this dynamic and high-visibility organization.
Participate directly in strategy development and business planning for GM Energy, including new product launches, go-to-market strategies, and emerging business models (e.g., home energy ecosystems, grid services, public charging initiatives).
Translate enterprise and business-unit strategies into practical legal frameworks and negotiation strategies that enable speed to market while appropriately managing risk.
Proactively identify regulatory, commercial, and operational risks and opportunities relevant to GM Energy, and recommend pragmatic paths forward.
Draft, interpret, and negotiate a wide range of complex commercial agreements, including collaboration and strategic alliance agreements, supply, distribution, and reseller agreements, EV charging, energy services, and grid/utility-facing arrangements.

Law degree (J.D. or equivalent) from an accredited college or university.
Admitted to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
Minimum of 5 years of legal experience with a primary focus on complex commercial, technology, or M&A transactions, ideally in the energy or technology sectors.
Demonstrated experience structuring and negotiating complex strategic relationships (e.g., collaborations, co-development or co-marketing arrangements, enterprise technology or platform deals).
Proven ability to operate as an expert-level individual contributor: Independently manage a high-volume, high-complexity portfolio of matters with limited supervision.
Apply strong business acumen and problem-solving skills to issues that materially impact business and functional objectives.
Lead projects that require coordination across multiple teams and functions.
Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to:
Clearly and concisely explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers.
Prepare and present recommendations and risk assessments to senior leadership.
Navigate disagreements and competing priorities with facts, candor, and professional judgment.
Demonstrated ability to build trust and strong working relationships across diverse stakeholders (in-house legal colleagues, outside counsel, marketing, product, commercial, finance, and operations).

GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs.
Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.