Hybrid Counsel, Autonomous Vehicles

at General Motors

• Job title: Counsel, Autonomous Vehicles
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $110,000 - $172,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Warren, United States

About the role

• Counsel advising on transportation law, regulatory compliance, and safety for autonomous vehicle technology at GM. Providing legal support to engineering, safety, and public policy teams.

Responsibilities

• Work at the cutting edge of transportation law, advising engineering, safety, and public policy teams.
• Provide strategic legal advice that will help drive business lines forward from technology ideation to scaled commercial sales.
• Provide advice to various teams at General Motors to ensure compliance with complex regulations.
• Provide proactive advice and product counseling to safety, product, and engineering teams.
• Partner and advise GM’s public policy and safety teams on federal and state engagements and strategy.
• Advise on internal and external responses, communications, and strategies related to regulatory inquiries and product safety assessments.
• Participate as a member of the legal incident response team.
• Manage outside counsel review of regulatory compliance work.
• Advise and collaborate with other legal teams to drive commercial and strategic corporate agreements.

Requirements

• JD Degree from an ABA accredited law school and member of a state bar.
• 4+ years of prior regulatory, product counseling, or litigation experience with at least 2+ years with a law firm.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with an ability to express complex legal matters in a clear, concise, and business-friendly way.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to manage a significant workload with competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to efficiently resolve issues and recommend solutions that are legally sound and pragmatic in the context of business goals.
• Knowledge and experience advising technology or automotive companies on complex regulatory compliance issues, including product and potential litigation risk.
• Enthusiastic attitude and one-team mentality for winning together as a team, driving achievement and legal rigor while balancing business goals, and working collaboratively with legal and non-legal stakeholders.

Benefits

• 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.