At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.
Job Description
Founded by The Allstate Corporation in 2016, Arity is a fully remote data and analytics company focused on improving transportation. We collect and analyze enormous amounts of data, using predictive analytics to build solutions with a single goal in mind: to make transportation smarter, safer and more useful for everyone.
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At the heart of that mission are the people that work here-the dreamers, doers and difference-makers that call this place home. As part of that team, your work will showcase both your intelligence and your creativity as you tackle real problems and put your talents towards transforming transportation.
That's because at Arity, we believe work and life shouldn't be at odds with one another. After all, we know that your unique qualities give you a unique perspective. We don't just want you to see yourself here. We want you to be yourself here.
We are looking for a creative and high energy attorney interested in working in the nexus of law, business, technology, data, and advertising. This role will provide commercial counseling for Allstate's data and analytics company in areas related to commercial contracting, sales, marketing, and privacy. This attorney will be working closely with Arity business partners from sales to draft and negotiate agreements and will also work closely with attorney colleagues for advising on product and privacy issues. This attorney will be recognized internally as a subject matter expert and have strong business acumen.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing timely business-focused commercial legal advice for a broad range of businesses and issues, including advising on product, marketing, and sales
- Structure, draft, and negotiate commercial agreements, including technology, data, and service contracts
- Advise business partners on emerging business issues, legal subjects and risk management primarily in areas of commercial contract, regulatory, privacy, and consumer protection
- Executive presence and concise verbal and written communication a must
- Play a key role in executing strategy, action planning, and communication with business partners, business units, and other areas of Law & Regulation
- Anticipate legal concerns and provide creative problem solving in a dynamic business environment
- Conduct research as to applicability of pertinent laws, statutes, regulations, rules, and other legal authority; ability to summarize concisely and collaborate with other areas of company to determine impact of new legal authority on business and enable action plans
- Understand interaction in regulated environments between business, policy, compliance, legislative and legal frameworks
- Comfort with executing on goals and objectives through ambiguity and in a changing business and legal landscape
- Execution abilities within a parent company and its family of companies
- Ability to manage outside counsel and budgets
- Prefer experience in the following areas: technology, commercial, advertising/adtech, data, privacy, mobility, intellectual property, and/or highly regulated sectors
- Business acumen with ability to quantify return on investments (contribute to business cases and risk evaluations)
- Assist in building a culture of constructive debate and conversations with a virtual team across multiple locations
A typical day for a Commercial Counsel might include:
- Advising business partners on a new technology product rollout or a new corporate structure
- Coordinating, understanding, and synthesizing complex legal advice from other attorneys within Law and Regulation and outside experts to advise business partners in a simple, direct manner
- Drafting a complex data licensing arrangement or commercial deals
- Driving implementation of a compliance plan
We are fortunate to have a talented, engaged, and hard-working team and are looking for someone with those same qualities. You might be the right fit if:
- You thrive on advising in areas of law that are unsettled and constantly changing
- You understand how to build new, efficient processes
- You volunteer ideas and creative solutions You are comfortable working with both a legal and business mindset simultaneously
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- This job does have supervisory duties over individual contributors, contractors, consultants, and temps
Job Qualifications
Education and Experience
- J.D is required
- 7+ years legal experience in a law firm or an in-house legal department for a mid- to large-sized company typical
- Experience in the following areas: transactions, privacy, technology, advertising or adtech, strategy, data, and/or highly regulated sectors
- Experience operating within a parent company and its family of companies
- Preference for experience advising a commercial business unit and/or business and work experience outside legal context
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- Admitted and licensed to practice law
Functional Skills
- Leadership skills, including team building, collaboration, coaching, developing and guiding
- Executive presence and concise verbal and written communication skills
- Project management skills
- Computer skills, including MS Office suite, used in or related to the tasks performed
- Analytical skills
- Ability to be discrete and maintain confidentiality with sensitive information
- Business acumen with ability to quantify return on investments (contribute to business cases and risk evaluations)
- Ability to work in a remote work environment
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Skills
Customer Centricity, Digital Literacy, Inclusive Leadership, Learning Agility, Results-Oriented
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is $112,000.00 - 196,750.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.
You'll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we've proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live.
Good Hands. Greater Together.®
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
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