Assistant General Counsel

Videojet; Wood Dale (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision isurance

401(k) with company match

Professional development programs

Parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

PTO

Health benefits

Onboarding

Job summary

Videojet, a Veralto company, seeks an experienced Assistant General Counsel to lead a broad portfolio of legal matters across commercial, regulatory, and compliance areas. You will partner with senior leaders, set strategy, and handle complex matters with practical legal guidance.

The role requires travel to the Wood Dale, Illinois HQ and periodic coordination with Veralto counsel. You will negotiate and draft complex agreements, advise on product liability, IP, data privacy, and employment

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active U.S. state bar membership in good standing.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience as a practicing attorney.
• Demonstrated experience providing in-house legal counsel across multiple practice areas, including contracts, litigation, labor and employment, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven ability to manage outside counsel and handle complex, multi-jurisdictional legal matters.
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, and open innovation transactions from due diligence through close.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to translate legal risk into practical guidance.
• Flexibility to occasionally accommodate other time zones and travel 10–15%.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical counsel across commercial, regulatory, compliance, litigation, and employment matters.
• Own and drive legal strategy and execution for assigned business units.
• Lead complex legal matters directly and leverage outside counsel when appropriate.
• Build scalable legal processes, policies, and tools for efficiency across multiple videojet units.
• Negotiate, draft, and review complex commercial agreements to protect Videojet's interests.
• Advise on regulatory compliance, data privacy, and product liability as needed.
• Collaborate with HR, sales, procurement to standardize templates and playbooks.

Skills

Senior-level judgment

Business acumen

Contract negotiation

In-house counsel experience

M&A experience

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

Cross-functional partner

Education

J.D. from an accredited law school

Job description

About the job

Imagine yourself…

Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.

Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every matter you lead.

Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.

It's all possible with a role at Videojet, a Veralto company. You have likely purchased or used a product touched by Videojet Technologies this week—after all, Videojet is a world leader in the product identification market, providing in-line printing, coding and marking products, consumables, and software solutions. Videojet's technologies play a critical role in ensuring the safety and authenticity of products sold across the globe in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial marketplaces. As Assistant General Counsel, you'll provide the legal foundation that keeps Videojet and its affiliated Product Quality businesses moving with confidence, speed, and integrity—and along the way, you'll have opportunities to make your mark on our business and your career with ongoing opportunities to deepen your skillset and pursue your ambitions.

At Veralto, our unifying purpose of Safeguarding the World's Most Vital Resources is more than words: it's a proven path towards positive change, improvement for our planet, and development for yourself. When you join Veralto's vibrant global network of 13 operating companies and 17,000 associates, you join a culture where purpose meets possibility: where your work has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials people rely on, and where you have opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career.

We offer:

• Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) with company match starting Day 1
• Comprehensive onboarding and professional development programs
• Ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities
• Paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (legal, financial, and counseling resources)
• PTO
• Health benefits
• 401(k)

We’re seeking an Assistant General Counsel to serve as a senior, hands‑on legal leader for Videojet and affiliated Product Quality businesses. This role will own a broad portfolio of legal counseling, strategy, risk management, and process improvement across multiple business units, while partnering directly with senior commercial, operational, and functional leaders.

This is not a narrow advisory role. The successful candidate will both set strategy and do the work—providing practical legal guidance, managing complex matters, improving legal processes, and helping the business move with speed, confidence, and integrity. The role offers meaningful leadership responsibility today, with runway to grow as the Water Quality legal function continues to scale across Veralto’s global platform. This position reports to Veralto’s Vice President and General Counsel, Marking and Coding Businesses, and will require periodic time at Videojet’s headquarters in Wood Dale, Illinois.

This is a hands‑on leadership role for someone who is energized by solving complex legal problems and driving practical business outcomes. In this role, you will:

• Serve as a senior, hands‑on legal partner to Videojet and affiliated Marking and Coding businesses, providing practical counsel across commercial, operational, regulatory, compliance, litigation, and employment matters
• Own and drive legal strategy and execution for assigned business units, balancing risk management with business speed and commercial objectives
• Lead complex legal matters directly, while knowing when to leverage outside counsel or enterprise subject matter experts
• Build and improve scalable legal processes, policies, and tools that increase consistency, efficiency, and business enablement across the Marking and Coding businesses and the Product Quality and Innovation segment
• Coordinate with Veralto counsel and subject matter experts across the enterprise to ensure alignment on legal positions, policies, and shared matters
• Lead the negotiation, drafting, and review of complex commercial agreements including customer contracts, supply agreements, distribution agreements, licensing arrangements, and strategic partnerships to protect Videojet's commercial interests
• Deliver clear, actionable legal advice to business leaders on matters including contract risk, commercial disputes, regulatory compliance, and operational exposure
• Partner with the sales and procurement teams to develop and maintain standard contract templates, playbooks, and fallback positions that accelerate deal velocity while managing legal risk
• Advise on and support compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including data privacy, trade compliance, product liability, and industry‑specific regulatory requirements
• Manage and coordinate with outside counsel on litigation, disputes, regulatory matters, and specialized legal projects, ensuring cost‑effective and timely resolution
• Support intellectual property strategy by advising on IP ownership, licensing, confidentiality, and protection of Videojet's proprietary technologies and brands
• Collaborate with HR and business leadership on employment‑related matters, policy development, and workplace compliance across jurisdictions
• Identify and elevate emerging legal risks and trends that could impact Videojet's business strategy, helping leadership make informed decisions proactively
• Contribute to the development and delivery of legal training programs for internal stakeholders to build legal literacy and compliance awareness across the organization
• Provide counsel on customer, vendor, joint development, and other commercial agreements to protect business interests and enable commercial growth
• Support mergers, acquisitions, and open innovation initiatives, partnering with business development teams from due diligence through integration
• Champion regulatory compliance, product and performance liability, labor and employment, and anticorruption compliance across assigned business units

The essential requirements of the job include

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active U.S. state bar membership in good standing
• Minimum of 10 years of experience as a practicing attorney
• Demonstrated experience providing in‑house legal counsel across multiple practice areas, including contracts, litigation, labor and employment, and regulatory compliance
• Proven ability to manage outside counsel and handle complex, multi‑jurisdictional legal matters
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, and open innovation transactions from due diligence through close
• Strong business acumen and the ability to quickly learn business drivers and translate legal risk into practical, actionable guidance
• Flexibility to occasionally accommodate other time zones as part of our global legal setup
• Willingness to travel occasionally as business needs require (estimated 10‑15%)
• Unquestioned integrity and commitment to the highest standards of ethical conduct

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the marking and coding or industrial manufacturing industries
• Experience in regulated industries
• Familiarity with anticorruption program design and implementation, including the FCPA, UK Bribery Act, or equivalent frameworks
• Background in labor and employment law across multiple jurisdictions, including the EU and Latin America
• Experience working in a global, matrixed corporate legal environment

Knowledge & Skills

• Senior‑level judgment with the willingness to be hands‑on in day‑to‑day legal work
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate legal risk into clear, practical guidance
• Ability to build trust with senior leaders and influence across a matrixed organization
• Comfort operating in a fast‑paced, high‑demand environment with shifting priorities
• Continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on scalable processes and better ways of working
• Collaborative, inclusive working style grounded in integrity, respect, and accountability

Educational & Experience Requirements

Strong academic credentials . A mix of law firm and in‑house corporate legal department experience is preferred. Candidates should have substantive experience across corporate and commercial legal matters, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts; competition law; compliance; and related business counseling. Experience with software legal matters is preferred. Fluency in spoken and written English is .

What Makes This Opportunity Great

• A visible senior legal role with direct partnership to business and functional leaders
• Broad legal scope with exposure to commercial, regulatory, compliance, litigation, employment, M&A, and innovation matters
• Meaningful hands‑on ownership of important work, with the opportunity to shape how legal support scales across the Product Quality and Innovation segment
• A role with runway: the business is growing, the legal function is evolving, and this position offers room to expand its impact over time
• Purpose‑driven work supporting Videojet’s mission to help safeguard the world’s most valuable resources for people around the world

Videojet is proud to be part of the Product Quality & Innovation segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto's vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you'll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we're Safeguarding the World's Most Vital Resources— and building rewarding careers along the way.

US ONLY:

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue‑based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The compensation range for this role is $180,000 - $210,000 USD per year. This job is also eligible for Bonus Pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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