Associate General Counsel - Mission, Equity & Legislative Affairs (Hybrid - 3 Days in Office) at Freddie Mac

Position Overview:

Are you a highly motivated teammate with financial services regulatory experience and passionate about Freddie Mac’s affordable housing mission? Do you enjoy critical thinking, problem solving, interacting and collaborating with personnel across departments and divisions? The Mission, Equity & Legislative Affairs (MELA) Department is seeking an attorney to join its legal staff as Associate General Counsel. To learn more about the role and our excellent benefits, apply now and learn why there’s #MoreAtFreddieMac!

Our Impact:

MELA is committed to providing quality, proactive, timely and cost-effective legal advice responsive to client needs on all legal and corporate matters affecting Freddie Mac. This includes partnering with clients, establishing a consistent view of legal exposure across business lines, providing repeatable, measurable, and defensible processes, and improving the delivery and management of legal services. The successful candidate will be a highly organized self-starter with strong communication skills, able to balance responsibility for multiple projects on a wide range of matters simultaneously.

MELA is responsible for providing legal advice to internal clients on a wide range of issues related to Freddie Mac as a business entity, legislative, regulatory, compliance and risk management matters affecting the legal and business environment in which Freddie Mac and other financial institutions operate. We also assist our clients in navigating complex requirements applicable to government-sponsored enterprises. Other responsibilities include providing legal strategic advice to business units on submissions to and appearances before government officials and agencies.

Your Impact:

This role is responsible for providing legislative, regulatory, and strategic business advice to clients and colleagues to help guide the Company’s mission-driven business goals.

• Advise on a wide range of legislative and regulatory issues including Freddie Mac’s mission requirements related to affordable housing goals, duty to serve, and other related affordable housing initiatives.
• Provide analysis and input into strategic decisions related to Freddie Mac’s regulatory and mission-related requirements.
• Provide legal counsel for the interpretation and implementation of Freddie Mac’s statutory powers and obligations.
• Lead the company’s response to regulatory rule-makings.
• Represent Freddie Mac before regulatory agencies and other parties.

Qualifications:

• A Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited U.S. law school and bar membership in any U.S. jurisdiction.
• At least 10+ years of relevant legal experience; experience with regulatory agencies or government-sponsored enterprises is desirable.
• Knowledge of administrative law, legislative and regulatory processes, mission activities, and affordable housing issues.
• Superior analytical, strategic, legal research and writing capabilities, as well as excellent verbal/written communications skills.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize and analyze information in a very fluid and fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage numerous issues across multiple substantive areas and to set priorities independently.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Kindness.
• Superior oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to create and maintain strong collaborative relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Ability to balance high-volume workload.
• Understanding of and ability to address business clients’ needs.
• Dedication to producing high-quality work.
• Ability to self-start and act with limited direction.

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

Time-type: Full time FLSA Status: Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $228,000 - $342,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.