Corporate Counsel

Retail Partners; Paterson (NJ); On-site; USD 99,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Retail Partners is seeking a freelance Corporate Counsel in Paterson, NJ. The role offers a stake in general work and rewards a senior, proactive approach to governance and compliance.

You will own cultural awareness, raise standards, and help steer critical initiatives with leadership support. The position requires delivering clear tradeoffs, reporting to leadership, and maintaining a collaborative, risk-aware mindset across the Paterson office.

Qualifications

• A Retail Partners mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow.
• A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output.
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself.
• 5 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to process improvements that boost efficiency and reduce waste.
• Make general tradeoffs visible so Retail Partners can weigh them.
• Champion a positive, collaborative culture throughout the Paterson, NJ office.
• Convert Initiative chaos into a backlog someone can actually work.
• Prepare reports, summaries, and presentations for review by leadership.
• Anticipate the NJ compliance wrinkle before it becomes a fire.
• Own the follow-through after the general meeting ends.
• Juggle craft-focused priorities without dropping the ones that matter.

Skills

Quality output

Risk awareness

Process discipline

5 years experience

Job description

A freelance Corporate Counsel role with Retail Partners is open, and the bar is simple: own Cultural Awareness, raise the standard, repeat. Here $99,000 - $138,000 buys not just your time but a stake in the general work, the kind Retail Partners trusts senior people to steer.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to process improvements that boost efficiency and reduce waste
• Make general tradeoffs visible so Retail Partners can weigh them
• Champion a positive, collaborative culture throughout the Paterson, NJ office
• Convert Initiative chaos into a backlog someone can actually work
• Prepare reports, summaries, and presentations for review by leadership
• Anticipate the NJ compliance wrinkle before it becomes a fire
• Own the follow-through after the general meeting ends
• Juggle craft-focused priorities without dropping the ones that matter

What You'll Bring

• A Retail Partners mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow
• A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
• 5 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it

Retail Partners spent 7 years in the trenches of general so its clients across Paterson, NJ wouldn't have to. We treat every new Corporate Counsel as a fresh set of eyes, so tell us what looks broken.

Take home $99,000 - $138,000, build your Data Protection under a mentor, lean on benefits, and shape a freelance week that finally fits.

Right now the Corporate Counsel listing in Paterson, NJ is live and looking.

If steady freelance work with real stakes appeals to you, the Corporate Counsel chair is waiting.