General Counsel

Energy Innovation Corp; Asheville (NC); Remote; USD 83,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Remote-first work

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Energy Innovation Corp is hiring a General Counsel for its Asheville, North Carolina operations. The role seeks a candidate with roughly seven years of legal research experience and a track record of managing risk, regulatory matters, and strategic counsel in a fast-moving tech-driven environment.

The position offers a competitive salary range of $83,000 to $113,000, plus mentorship and a benefits package. This is a full-time, remote-first opportunity with an emphasis on practical

Qualifications

• Entrepreneurial mindset and eagerness to learn new skills.
• Comfort with a full-time cadence in an Asheville-based operation.
• Hands-on interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure.
• Kind bias toward action while knowing when to wait for the right moment.
• Ability to disagree professionally and maintain collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Refuse to let Privacy Law debt quietly accumulate on your watch.
• Make general tradeoffs visible so Ford can weigh them.
• Earn trust to make deeply collaborative judgments without a committee.
• Find and implement workable workarounds when the official path is blocked.
• Carry the Statutory Interpretation thread across three time zones and two tools.
• Respond to internal and external requests in a timely, professional manner.
• Meet deadlines while upholding Ford quality standards.

Skills

Entrepreneurial attitude

Eagerness to learn

Hands-on interpersonal skills

Bias toward action

Effective communicator

Job description

We're hiring a General Counsel, and the short version is this: bring Networking, bring Facilitation, and bring the kind of curiosity that Ford runs on. The bargain is plain — your 7 years and Legal Research for $83,000 - $113,000, plus a general team that hands over the reins.

Key Responsibilities

• Refuse to let Privacy Law debt quietly accumulate on your watch
• Make general tradeoffs visible so Ford can weigh them
• Earn the trust to make deeply collaborative judgment calls without a committee
• Find the spirited-and-grounded workaround when the official path is blocked
• Carry the Statutory Interpretation thread across three time zones and two tools
• Respond to internal and external requests in a timely, professional manner
• Meet established deadlines while upholding Ford quality standards

What You'll Bring

• An entrepreneurial attitude and eagerness to learn new skills
• Comfort with the full-time cadence of an Asheville-based operation
• Hands-on Interpersonal Skills experience that survives a whiteboard interview
• A relentlessly-kind bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait
• A communicator who can disagree without making it personal

Ford writes the software that keeps general operations humming, all of it engineered in Asheville, NC by a gloriously-unglamorous bunch. The unwritten rule in Asheville is simple: leave the codebase kinder than you found it.

With $83,000 - $113,000 as the anchor, expect mentorship, a benefits package worth bragging about, and the latitude to work remote-first.

Actively staffed and live, this Asheville, NC opening is no relic.