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About the role
- Senior Counsel shaping RiverSource Life Insurance products from concept to administration. Partnering with cross-functional teams to provide compliant and competitive insurance solutions.
Responsibilities
- This Senior Counsel role offers the opportunity to play a meaningful role in shaping RiverSource Life Insurance products across their full lifecycle—from early concept and development through launch and long-term administration.
- As a trusted legal advisor, you’ll partner closely with cross functional product, underwriting, new business and operations teams to help bring thoughtful, compliant, and competitive insurance solutions to market.
- In this role, you’ll translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, practical guidance that supports informed decision making and product strategy.
- By balancing innovation with effective risk management, you’ll help teams move forward with confidence while supporting new business initiatives and in force policy administration.
- This role will support Life Product Development by drafting, reviewing, and finalizing contracts and prospectuses that support the sale of individual life insurance products.
- Filing strategies to drive timely state and federal regulatory approvals for new contracts and prospectuses, including the response and effective resolution to regulatory objections.
- New Business, Underwriting and Service and Operations business units by researching laws and providing guidance.
Requirements
- Law Degree from an Accredited Law School with at least 10 years of experience as a practicing lawyer.
- At least 7 years of experience working for a life insurance company, an insurance regulatory agency or an insurance practice group within a law firm.
- Solid experience working with, and knowledge of, state insurance and securities laws and requirements applicable to a life insurance company.
- Ability to influence, gain credibility and develop strong working relationships with business partners and external constituencies.
- Ability to organize, plan, manage and implement large and ongoing projects, with competing priorities and deadlines.
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to draft and interpret sophisticated agreements and plans.
- Highly organized with ability to work both independently and in cross-functional teams.
- Ability to communicate results to appropriate audiences and suggest risk assessed alternative courses of action.
- Ability to monitor and analyze developments and trends in areas of responsibility and master new bodies of legal knowledge as regulations and business objectives evolve.
- Admitted to practice law in the state of Minnesota, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina or eligible for admission as in-house counsel.
- Willing to work in the office 4 days a week at one of our home offices: Minnesota, Massachusetts, New York or North Carolina.
Benefits
- health, dental and life insurances
- 401(k)
- vacation time
- sick time
- competitive and comprehensive benefits program
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