Associate General Counsel

An Amazing Career Opportunity for an Associate General Counsel!!

Location:

Veldhoven, Netherlands Job

HID powers the trusted identities of the world's people, places, and things. The Secure Document Issuance (SDI) business unit provides highly secure hardware, software, and support solutions used by governments and commercial organizations worldwide to issue passports, national identity cards, driver's licenses, access credentials, and other secure credentials. Operating primarily through the Netherlands and Italy, SDI combines industrial-scale document production systems, credential personalization hardware, specialized software, and global service operations spanning more than 100 countries.

HID is seeking an Associate General Counsel to serve as the primary legal and commercial partner supporting the Secure Document Issuance business and broader Secure Issuance organization. This role will provide strategic, proactive, and business-oriented legal guidance across commercial transactions, public tenders, government procurement activities, channel partnerships, product and service offerings, procurement, operational matters, and regulatory compliance.

The successful candidate will be a practical, commercially minded attorney who is comfortable working directly with business leaders, bid teams, product management, service organizations, sales, engineering, procurement, and operational stakeholders. This role is expected to engage early in commercial opportunity development, help structure deals and service models before contracts are drafted, and build scalable legal and commercial frameworks that support growth, operational consistency, and risk management across SDI’s global business.

HID powers the trusted identities of the world's people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,500 worldwide employees. Check us out here:  and

Secure Issuance, part of HID Global, offers the world's broadest and most sophisticated portfolio of card printers, laser engravers, encoders and software. For more than 25 years, organizations across a variety of industries — from enterprise corporations and government agencies to financial institutions and universities — have relied on HID Global Secure Issuance for the custom personalization and issuance of secure identity credentials and financial cards.

With a history of pioneering patented technologies and expertise, business integrity and long-standing customer confidence, HID Global is a global leader in secure card issuance innovation.

• 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…