Corporate Attorney

Red Wing Shoe Company is seeking a Corporate Attorney to provide broad businessfocused legal support across the organization. Reporting to the General Counsel this role adds critical inhouse legal capacity to support a growing and increasingly complex business environment. The Corporate Attorney will serve as a trusted generalist and business partner providing legal advice across corporate governance regulatory operational and transactional matters while working closely with leadership and internal stakeholders to proactively manage risk and improve legal efficiency. While not an employment law specialist role this position may be involved in employmentrelated matters such as investigations policy interpretation and risk assessments with the opportunity - and expectation - to grow this capability over time as part of a broader generalist practice in partnership with the General Counsel and external counsel.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide timely practical legal guidance on corporate regulatory compliance and operational matters
• Draft review and negotiate a wide range of commercial vendor customer and confidentiality agreements
• Support corporate governance activities entity management and related documentation
• Partner with HR and leadership on employmentrelated matters including investigations policy interpretation and risk evaluation in coordination with the General Counsel
• Develop and support internal legal controls policies and compliance frameworks
• Manage and triage legal matters determining when to engage external counsel and overseeing that work
• Support strategic initiatives and contribute to longterm legal capacity and effectiveness.

Qualifications :

Education & Experience

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school
• Licensed to practice law in Minnesota or ability to obtain licensure
• 7 years of legal experience preferably including corporate or inhouse generalist experience
• Demonstrated success handling diverse legal matters across multiple practice areas
• Strong experience drafting reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements
• Exposure to employmentrelated legal issues (e.g. investigations employee relations policy guidance) preferred but not required
• Experience managing or partnering with external counsel

Skills & Abilities

• Strong legal judgment with a practical businessoriented mindset
• Ability to balance legal risk with business objectives
• Excellent communication and relationshipbuilding skills
• Highly organized with strong analytical and prioritization abilities
• Comfortable working in areas of evolving responsibility and legal complexity
• Willingness and ability to develop additional breadth and depth in legal skills over time as part of a broader corporate practice

Personal Characteristics

• Trusted advisor with high integrity and sound judgment
• Practical collaborative and resultsoriented team player
• Lowego highimpact contributor committed to continuous learning

Work Environment: 

This position follows a Hyflex work model providing the flexibility of remote work alongside intentional inoffice collaboration for Moments that Matter and key business needs. Upon hire must be located within a commutable distance to Red Wing MN.

Additional Information :

Red Wing Shoes is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Red Wing Shoe Company Inc. is a drug-free workplace.

Red Wing Shoe Company will not be using recruitment agencies or firms to fill this position and we will not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate information. No agency calls please.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about discussed or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge (b) in furtherance of an investigation proceeding hearing or action including an investigation conducted by the employer or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time