Principal Corporate Counsel

2 weeks ago


Redmond, Washington, United States Microsoft Corporation Full time
Job Summary

Microsoft Corporation is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Corporate Counsel to join our Global Trade Legal team within Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA). This role will focus on Microsoft's commitment to partnering with governments, intergovernmental bodies, and other stakeholders in the various countries and regions where Microsoft operates on innovative and effective approaches to trade laws and regulations.

Key Responsibilities
  • Counsel Microsoft key stakeholders on trade-related legal and regulatory developments and strategies.
  • Work with business partners and other key stakeholders to operationalize regulatory developments and risk mitigation strategies, and to assure compliance globally.
  • Identify and anticipate legal risks in the client's business, technology, and public policy, then develop solutions to mitigate risk.
  • Identify and propose opportunities to reduce complexity and mitigate risk, including through automated solutions.
  • Advance a collaborative, holistic, and compliance-by-design environment across the enterprise that fosters trust in Microsoft while enabling business.
  • Improve decision-making on key compliance issues by, for example, driving clarity and managing a coordinated approach to a complex problem.
  • Suggest improvements, identify best practices, and provide continuous feedback to make the delivery of legal services within your work group more efficient.
  • Propose efficiencies to budget management, and model compliance, privacy, and data security.
  • Collaborate within and across the Legal and Corporate Affairs work group, using written and verbal communication to organize and simplify issues and ideas.
Qualifications
  • Juris Doctorate Degree or Equivalent International Degree
  • Active license to practice law in a jurisdiction and capable of meeting admission requirements in relevant jurisdiction.
  • 5+ years experience as a practicing attorney
  • Experience as an attorney in sanctions and export controls practice areas.
Additional Qualifications
  • Experience with cutting-edge technologies, including disciplines such as digital and telecommunications, artificial intelligence, quantum, and space and satellites.
  • Knowledge and experience in exports, imports, supply chain, economic sanctions, and non-U.S. export regulations (e.g., BAFA, UN, EU, UK BIS) regulations.
  • Proven ability to distill the complex to non-SME or technical audiences.
  • Experience with assessing compliance risks in the business and developing proactive strategies to mitigate risks.
  • A mix of corporate law firm and in-house experience.
  • Hands-on project management experience, including excellent organizational skills, the ability to manage multiple and varying mission-critical projects at once, and to follow through and meet deadlines.


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