Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy - Generali Global Assistance, Inc. d/b/a Iris Powered by Generali

Why work with us?

The North American branch of Generali Global Assistance offers a diverse and inclusive work environment while employees work towards making real difference in the lives of our clients. As an Organization, we pride ourselves with offering white glove service while being mindful of corporate responsibility and our environmental footprint.

Employees enjoy a plethora of benefits to include:

• A diverse, inclusive, professional work environment
• Flexible work schedules
• Company match on 401(k)
• Competitive Paid Time Off policy
• Generous Employer contribution for health, dental and vision insurance
• Company paid short term and long term disability insurance
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Company paid life insurance
• Employee Assistance program
• Wellness programs
• Fun employee and company events
• Discounts on travel insurance

Who are we?

Generali Global Assistance is proudly part of the Europ Assistance Group brand and our products utilize a number of corporate and product brands. The brands for our North American team include the following:

• CSA: US travel insurance brand for retail and lodging partners. Learn more here.
• Generali Global Assistance (GGA): The primary Corporate brand in the United States for our travel insurance, travel assistance, identity, and cyber protection, and beneficiary companion products. Learn more here.
• GMMI: the industry standard for global medical cost containment and medical risk management solutions. Learn more here.
• Iris, Powered by Generali: identity and digital protection solution. Learn more here.
• Trip Mate: US travel insurance brand for tour operator, cruise and airline partners. Learn more here.

What you’ll be doing.

Job Summary:

The Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy – Global Identity and Cyber Protection (“GICP”) position is responsible for protecting the organization’s legal interest and maintaining its operations within the scope established by law. This role is responsible for providing hands-on counsel to all levels of staff. The Assistant General Counsel identifies and analyzes legal issues, drafts key documents, presents clear recommendations to top management, and assures legal and regulatory compliance. The Assistant General Counsel will be the lead attorney for the business line and will provide “hands-on” legal counsel, support to senior management and partner with the business CEO for strategic legal matters. This position requires a broad knowledge and understanding of product, commercial, intellectual property, cybersecurity, SaaS tech offerings, global distribution and data privacy, matters. This position reports to the EANA General Counsel with a dotted line into the business CEO.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assists the General Counsel and business CEO and under their direction serves as lead product and strategy legal counsel for the global identity theft and cyber protection business.

• Provides advice on regulation, compliance, SaaS/E-commerce, data privacy laws and other regulatory requirements affecting GICP products.

• Drafts policies, procedures, agreements, and guidelines governing Europ Assistance North America as well as global distribution.

• Collaborates with internal partners and multi-disciplinary teams to guide development of company policies and best practices.

• Manages legal projects by defining scope, setting milestones and key delivery KPS’s, delegating tasks, tracking progress, and reporting project results to ensure successful and efficient implementation.

• Institutes tight yield management of volume with the ability to keep pace and scale.

• Acts as a resource in subject areas that include privacy, cyber security, SaaS tech, Global regulation and contractual structure, HIPAA, and other areas.

• Assists in marketing, product development, vendor, and support.

• Comfortable negotiating data privacy agreements, including a working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA.

• Provides practical, commercial advice to executives and internal stakeholders on a variety of legal issues, balancing business objectives with legal risks, including identifying, managing, and communicating risks and opportunities in revenue transactions and analyzing and interpreting complex business and legal contractual provisions.

• Helps shape business and legal terms, deal structures and to help improve transaction processes and practices to support innovation, achieve better outcomes and enhance transaction velocity without material increase in risk.

• Adept at explaining complex legal concepts in a clear, concise manner to stakeholders who may have minimal legal knowledge using oral, written, and visual presentations.

Required / Desired Knowledge, Experiences and Skills:

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience.

• Extensive experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex agreements globally, preferably with a company of significant size and scale and with large global enterprise SaaS customers.

• Confident presenter able to effectively communicate thoughts to key stakeholders to influence adoption of recommendations.

• Negotiate skillfully with both internal and external groups to resolve differences.

• Identify complex problems and review related information to develop and implement solutions.

• Manage multiple complex projects and responsibilities concurrently and effectively.

• Respond calmly, quickly, and decisively to unpredictable or unexpected events and changes.

• Organize people, tasks, and activities to yield efficient?workflow.

Preferred:

• Regulated industry experience preferred.

Education/Certifications:

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED) required.

• Juris Doctorate Degree.

• Admittance to the bar and in good standing with a license to practice law in Washington, DC (or the ability to obtain a license in Washington, D.C.).

Where you’ll be doing it.

This is a hybrid role based out of our Washington, D.C. office. As a hybrid role, you will be working onsite 2 days a week and working from home 3 days a week.

Apply today to begin your next chapter.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Generali Global Assistance, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and enriching workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

The Company is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all our employment programs and decisions. Discrimination in employment on the basis of any classification protected under federal, state, or local law is a violation of our policy. Equal employment opportunity is provided to all employees and applicants for employment without regard age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, pregnancy, childbirth, medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, genetic information, marital status, military status, HIV/AIDS status, mental or physical disability, use of a guide or support animal because of blindness, deafness, or physical handicap, or any other legally protected basis under applicable federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, recruitment and hiring, classification, placement, promotion, termination, reductions in force, recall, transfer, leaves of absences, compensation, and training. Any employees with questions or concerns about equal employment opportunities in the workplace are encouraged to bring these issues to the attention of Human Resources. The Company will not allow any form of retaliation against individuals who raise issues of equal employment opportunity. All Company employees are responsible for complying with the Company’s Equal Opportunity Policy. Every employee is to treat all other employees equally and fairly. Violations of this policy may subject an employee to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.