Associate General Counsel

As our Associate General Counsel, you’ll support HID’s successby:

• Serving as the lead legal advisor and strategic legal partner supporting the Secure Document Issuance business unit

• Partnering proactively with business leaders, bid teams, product management, service organizations, sales, engineering, procurement, and operational stakeholders at the earliest stages of commercial opportunity development

• Helping structure commercial models, customer offerings, service commitments, tender responses, and deal strategies before contracts are drafted or negotiations begin

• Identifying legal, commercial, operational, regulatory, and execution risks early in the sales, bid, product, service, and procurement life cycles, and develop practical risk mitigation strategies

• Serving as an active member of major bid and tender teams, providing legal and commercial guidance during proposal development, risk assessment, solution design, pricing discussions, acceptance criteria review, and contract commitment analysis

• Designing, implementing, maintaining, and improving scalable commercial contracting frameworks, including standard customer contract structures, procurement terms, maintenance agreements, SaaS agreements, service frameworks, renewal mechanisms, escalation models, and standard liability positions

• Supporting the development of standardized service level agreements, maintenance frameworks, uptime commitments, service credits, software support obligations, patch delivery commitments, and other performance obligations

• Driving the implementation of practical legal governance processes within business operations, ensuring legal considerations are incorporated into sales, procurement, product management, service delivery, and project execution workflows before formal legal review is required

• Partnering with commercial and service teams to establish contract lifecycle management practices, including renewal governance, extension mechanisms, changing management processes, and long-term customer agreement strategies

• Acting as a trusted business partner who balances risk management with commercial objectives, enabling business growth while establishing pragmatic, scalable, and operationally workable legal processes

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to support business growth, operational excellence, contract consistency, service readiness, and strategic objectives

• Supporting additional Secure Issuance business units, products, services, and strategic initiatives as business needs require

Primary Duties:

• Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a broad range of commercial, government, and procurement-related transactions, including customer agreements, government contracts, public tenders, framework agreements, software licenses, hardware transactions, SaaS agreements, services agreements, maintenance agreements, manufacturing and supply agreements, and other strategic commercial arrangements

• Support sales, bid management, engineering, operations, service, product management, finance, and procurement teams in structuring and closing complex commercial and government transactions

• Provide legal and commercial guidance during bid and tender preparation, including review of legal risk, acceptance criteria, warranties, service commitments, maintenance obligations, performance requirements, liability exposure, service credits, and long-term operational commitments

• Advise business stakeholders on contractual obligations, procurement requirements, risk allocation, transaction strategy, service delivery obligations, and operational feasibility of proposed commitments

• Partner with business and service teams to ensure contractual commitments are achievable, commercially sustainable, and aligned with SDI’s operational…