Hybrid Counsel, GM Energy

at General Motors

• Job title: Counsel, GM Energy
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $140,000 - $185,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Detroit, United States

About the role

• Legal Counsel supporting GM Energy by providing expert-level legal advice on transactions and helping shape the overall strategy for operational growth.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert-level legal advice with a primary focus on complex commercial transactions, new business models, and operational growth initiatives.
• Work directly with senior business leaders to shape strategy and execution for this dynamic and high-visibility organization.
• Participate directly in strategy development and business planning for GM Energy, including new product launches, go-to-market strategies, and emerging business models (e.g., home energy ecosystems, grid services, public charging initiatives).
• Translate enterprise and business-unit strategies into practical legal frameworks and negotiation strategies that enable speed to market while appropriately managing risk.
• Proactively identify regulatory, commercial, and operational risks and opportunities relevant to GM Energy, and recommend pragmatic paths forward.
• Draft, interpret, and negotiate a wide range of complex commercial agreements, including collaboration and strategic alliance agreements, supply, distribution, and reseller agreements, EV charging, energy services, and grid/utility-facing arrangements.

Requirements

• Law degree (J.D. or equivalent) from an accredited college or university.
• Admitted to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Minimum of 5 years of legal experience with a primary focus on complex commercial, technology, or M&A transactions, ideally in the energy or technology sectors.
• Demonstrated experience structuring and negotiating complex strategic relationships (e.g., collaborations, co-development or co-marketing arrangements, enterprise technology or platform deals).
• Proven ability to operate as an expert-level individual contributor: Independently manage a high-volume, high-complexity portfolio of matters with limited supervision.
• Apply strong business acumen and problem-solving skills to issues that materially impact business and functional objectives.
• Lead projects that require coordination across multiple teams and functions.
• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to:
• Clearly and concisely explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers.
• Prepare and present recommendations and risk assessments to senior leadership.
• Navigate disagreements and competing priorities with facts, candor, and professional judgment.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust and strong working relationships across diverse stakeholders (in-house legal colleagues, outside counsel, marketing, product, commercial, finance, and operations).

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.