Corporate Counsel

Company Description

INFICON is a leading provider of innovative instrumentation, critical sensor technologies, and Smart Manufacturing/Industry 4.0 software solutions that enhance productivity and quality of tools, processes, and complete factories. These analysis, measurement and control products are essential for gas leak detection in air conditioning/refrigeration and automotive manufacturing. They are vital to equipment manufacturers and end-users in the complex fabrication of semiconductors and thin film coatings for optics, flat panel displays, solar cells and industrial vacuum coating applications.

Other users of our vacuum-based processes include the life sciences, research, aerospace, packaging, heat treatment, laser cutting and many other industrial processes. We also leverage our expertise in vacuum technology to provide unique, toxic chemical analysis products for emergency response, security, and environmental health and safety.

Job Description

Summary:
Join our dynamic Legal Team as Corporate Counsel and play a key role in supporting our global business units! In this versatile, generalist position, you ll work across a wide range of legal areas, partnering closely with our General Counsel to help drive smart, strategic decisions across the company. If you’re looking for a collaborative environment where your legal expertise can make a global impact, we’d love to meet you!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Advise on day-to-day legal affairs, various domestic and cross-border transactions, contracts, compliance, and corporate matters, ensuring operational and regulatory compliance.
• Provide actionable and sound legal advice, prepare reports, and make recommendations to management on a variety of legal issues.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements (e.g. NDAs, SaaS agreements, development agreements) from both the supplier and customer perspective.
• Ensure compliance with applicable US and international regulatory frameworks, e.g. REACH, RoHS, Export Administration Regulations, PFAS, etc.
• Develop and implement internal compliance policies and procedures.
• Support antitrust, trade, and environmental compliance, pre-litigation, dispute resolution, government inquiries and investigations, settlement matters, and handle other specialized matters with the assistance of external counsel resources.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide integrated and comprehensive legal guidance.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and changes in relevant laws and regulations.

Other

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic legal leadership to help ensure the organization is legally savvy and risk-aware. Empower managers across the business with a solid legal foundation, enabling them to understand and proactively manage legal risks in their areas.
• Partner closely with the General Counsel and key stakeholders to lead critical legal initiatives, such as contract negotiations, regulatory compliance, ESG matters, and more.
• Deliver impactful legal training and coaching to team members, ensuring they’re well-versed in relevant laws, regulations, company policies, and internal processes.
• Collaborate with the Executive Team and business unit leaders to support strategic planning, drive execution, and foster cohesive leadership across the organization.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school in the United States is required.
• License to practice law in New York is required.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in corporate law firms and/or in-house legal departments, preferably with a multinational company.
• Pragmatic, hands-on, solutions-oriented lawyer who is able to think on their feet and find sensible solutions to legal challenges; able to assess issues, take ownership, and efficiently implement solutions.
• Ability to influence others without direct line management oversight. Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills – able to win trust and develop business relationships.
• Ability to collaborate with multicultural teams and companies operating across different time zones; some travel may be required.
• Forward thinking…