Senior Counsel, Executive

Why Mobility Global? At Mobility Global, our mission is to provide the trusted information that helps billions of people build, sell, and own vehicles with confidence. As we shape the next generation of automotive intelligence through innovation, AI, and industry-leading data, we're creating new opportunities for our customers, our business, and our people. Join a team singularly focused on transforming the automotive industry.

S&P Global Mobility is Mobility Global — the company behind CARFAX, automotive

Mastermind, Market Scan, and Polk Automotive Solutions. Our strength comes from our people, and here, the progress you make helps the entire automotive ecosystem move faster and with greater confidence.

About the Role Join a best-in-class global Legal, Risk & Compliance team committed to delivering timely, practical and actionable advice to advance our business and safeguard our reputation, people, and assets. We value professionalism, responsiveness, and a solution-oriented mindset in a fast-moving environment.

Location:

Reston VA area (preferred) or Remote

We are seeking an experienced, business-minded and strategically astute attorney with 7-15 years of proven governance and public company executive compensation legal experience (ideally also with fluency in benefits legal experience) gained at a leading national law firm and/or in-house to join its corporate legal team.

In this position, the successful candidate will partner with members of the company’s executive and HR teams to manage and execute on a broad range of initiatives, primarily in the areas of compensation committee and board governance and disclosure matters, executive compensation and incentive compensation plans. The candidate will support a business of approximately $1.8 billion in revenue and 3,500 employees worldwide.

This position reports directly to the Deputy General Counsel and will be a core member of the corporate legal team.

• Dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Provide crucial support to HR, the Leadership team, the Compensation Committee, and the Company at large
• Ownership of independent projects and collaboration with stakeholders across the company
• Serve as a business-oriented, senior legal advisor, counseling on issues of significant importance to the Company
• Exposure to Company-initiatives and department-led projects
• Meaningful opportunity for growth and development

• All aspects of executive compensation, including corporate, securities, disclosure, tax and governance issues
• Equity, incentive compensation and commission plan design, interpretation and tax and regulatory compliance
• Efforts to prepare, implement and refine best-in-class practices, policies, guidelines, tools, programs and forms that align with the Company’s employee engagement strategy, values and business goals
• Federal and state securities law (including §16 insider transaction reporting, proxy filing, and Form 8‑K), Dodd‑Frank, Sarbanes–Oxley, tax code (including §409A), and NYSE requirements
• Statutory and voluntary sustainability and corporate responsibility disclosures and reporting
• Executive employment, severance and change-in-control agreements for compensation/benefit-related issues

• Governance best practices, ISS/Glass Lewis and Dodd‑Frank and best practices developments
• Compensation Committee agendas, resolutions, materials and minutes
• Board of Director independence, related‑party transaction rules, Director and officer questionnaires and the annual Board survey
• Annual shareholder meeting, including the meeting script, logistics, and coordination with the inspector of elections and…