Associate General Counsel - General Corporate
Associate General Counsel - General Corporate
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Job Description
At Freddie Mac you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and youll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.
Position Overview:
The General Corporate Department of the Legal Division of Freddie Mac (Legal GCD) is seeking an attorney to join its legal staff as Associate General Counsel. In this role you will provide legal advice and counsel on a wide range of transactions and other matters including technology transactions commercial contracts data licensing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) and other general corporate matters.
Our Impact:
Attorneys in the Legal GCD are key advisors to Freddie Mac with respect to various corporate legal matters including contracting information technology privacy information security artificial intelligence intellectual property corporate real estate corporate insurance and other areas of general corporate practice.
Your Impact:
Serve as legal counsel providing legal analysis and advice
Reviewing requests for proposals (RFPs) drafting negotiating and interpreting agreements with third parties providing services and technology to Freddie Mac including outsourcing agreements cloudbased service agreements intellectual property licenses confidentiality agreements and consulting agreements
Advising clients with respect to legal issues arising in the context of these agreements including compliance privacy data security artificial intelligence intellectual property and liability issues
Support the provision of legal advice regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
Assisting clients with disputes
Providing timely practical and sound advice to clients with respect to various other general corporate matters as they arise including informationtechnology related issues corporate real estate corporate insurance intellectual property issues and privacy issues
Developing training for clients and other attorneys
Qualifications:
A Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited U.S. law school
Membership in good standing in a state bar in any U.S. jurisdiction
At least 10 years of legal experience dealing with sophisticated technology and commercial contracts preferably at a major law firm or corporate law department
Strong legal analytical and drafting skills
Experience with softwareasaservice (SaaS) AI/ML data licensing and other technologyrelated transactions
Keys to Success in this Role:
Ability to provide sound legal and business counsel while clearly distinguishing between the two
Ability to work comfortably and routinely as part of a team and to cooperate across organizational boundaries
Ability to organize and prioritize multiple pending matters
Ability to thrive in a fastpaced environment with changing priorities
Accountability for timeliness and results
Ability to work well with peers and to communicate to ensure consistency of legal advice and negotiating positions
Ability to develop and maintain good relationships with third parties including customers regulators and vendors
Ability to accept feedback with a positive growth mindset
Outstanding oral presentation and persuasion skills
Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.
Today Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart creative and dedicated team and youll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Macs business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy applying a vigilancefirst approach to work supporting regulatory mandates and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.
CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more please visit www.BountyJobs and register with our referral code: MAC.
Timetype:Full timeFLSA Status:ExemptFreddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and marketleading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.
This position has an annualized marketbased salary range of $224000 $336000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position experience skill set internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
