Sr. Counsel, Legal Regulatory

The role of Senior Counsel, Legal Regulatory is a full-time attorney position within Asurion?s Legal Regulatory Team that provides legal and business advice to Asurion involving complex insurance operations and regulatory issues. This role is responsible for ensuring the company maintains ongoing compliance with laws and regulations governing portable electronics insurance, service contracts, warranties and other ancillary products and services in all jurisdictions in which Asurion does business. Senior Counsel, Legal Regulatory will provide day-to-day support for various Asurion teams, including facilitating discussions with senior business leaders, including underwriting, claims and customer services teams, and consistently providing business-oriented solutions and risk mitigation guidance.

The ideal candidate will be a dynamic leader, with excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, strong time management, and has a strong background in insurance operations and technology industries with 8+ years of in-house experience.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• This position requires a deep understanding of the insurance industry, including regulatory requirements and provides regulatory compliance and consumer protection related guidance to internal clients on matters pertaining to insurance, service contract and other ancillary products and services, as well as compliance obligations of the Company
• Guide and supervise the work of other attorneys and staff
• Sets standards and direction for legal processes and documentation within area(s) of responsibility
• Establish strong collaborative relationships with cross functional teams, including legal, underwriting, claims, finance, marketing, program management, client services and product
• Act as a trusted advisor and lead large or complex projects which may include specific timelines and resource management and meeting specified success criteria
• Accurately assesses and manages risk through knowledge of Asurion?s business and relevant legal issues, including reconciling the implication of past precedent with current and future needs
• Works to support client accounts, and act as a liaison and brokers creative solutions for relevant stakeholders
• Develops a thorough understanding of Asurion?s business, processes and goals to provide innovative legal solutions that solve unique or challenging problems
• Actively seeks operational understanding and implications of initiatives
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and adept at managing multiple priorities.
• Analyzes and stays current with state and federal laws, regulations for insurance, service contracts and warranty, consumer protection requirements and insurance licensing and reporting requirements; and serves as a technical expert in these area(s) of practice
• Demonstrates good analytical skills and judgment to evaluate factual and qualitative information in complicated or novel situations
• Conducts research projects

Qualified:

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and admission to the bar
• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Previous insurance regulatory compliance experience
• Service contract experience will be considered a plus
• Experience in marketing, advertisement, and consumer protection a plus
• Ability to influence and guide senior business team leaders.
• Demonstrates the ability to effectively understand, consider and address the client or business while mitigating risk exposure
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must possess strong judgment, confidence, collaborative problem-solving skills, and ability to spot potential issues quickly
• Must be able to independently handle a variety and number of legal matters under supervision of more experienced legal counsel
• Schedules and prioritizes work and deliverables to ensure on-time response to a large variety of changing demands/requests/requirements
• Highly organized and driven to thoroughly understand the issue and the possible implications of legal guidance
• Aptitude and motivation for staying current with regulatory changes in insurance, service contract and consumer protection regulations
• Must be able to identify early signs of conflict and get to essence of problems to resolve issues before they escalate to a conflict
• Occasional travel