Interim North America General Counsel

Epiq Counsel; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

PTO and paid federal holidays

Optional medical coverage; HSA; Welln​

Wellness Program

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Epiq Counsel seeks an experienced Interim North America General Counsel in Austin, TX. This senior role partners with executive leadership to guide strategic legal initiatives across commercial, regulatory, and compliance areas. The engagement is a three-month secondment with potential for permanency, offering a hybrid onsite schedule and an opportunity to shape the U.S.

legal function. The ideal candidate is a U.S.-qualified lawyer with substantial in-house GC-like experience, adept at managing

Qualifications

• U.S.-qualified lawyer with senior-level in-house experience, ideally including General Counsel or equivalent roles.
• Significant experience in the U.S. technology sector and semiconductor industry.
• Broad generalist background spanning commercial transactions, regulatory and government affairs, compliance, and strategic legal risk.
• Extensive experience negotiating and overseeing sophisticated commercial transactions.
• Demonstrated ability to advise C-suite executives on complex legal, regulatory, and strategic matters.
• Leadership experience with the ability to build, develop, and lead a legal team.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior strategic legal advisor to the North American business and executive leadership, guiding business strategy and risk.
• Lead legal support for commercial transactions and strategic matters across the U.S. business.
• Advise on government affairs, regulatory and compliance matters affecting North American operations.
• Manage relationships with regulators, external stakeholders, and outside counsel.
• Provide oversight of patent litigation matters in coordination with global and external counsel.
• Partner with Global General Counsel and senior leaders on significant legal and regulatory matters.
• Develop understanding of the North American business to provide practical, commercially focused advice.
• Direct and manage outside counsel and specialist resources on complex matters.
• Support growth of the U.S. legal function and hiring/development where needed.
• Collaborate with senior executives and global leadership across regions.

Skills

In-house leadership

GC experience

Regulatory & compliance

Commercial transactions

Stakeholder management

Education

Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent

Job description

Our client, a leading global semiconductor and technology company, is seeking an experienced Interim North America General Counsel to support the continued growth of its U.S. business. This is a hybrid opportunity based in Austin, Texas, with an expectation of approximately 2–3 days per week onsite. The engagement is expected to begin as a three-month secondment through Epiq Counsel, with the potential to convert to a permanent position.

This senior legal professional will serve as a strategic legal advisor to the company’s North American business, partnering closely with senior leadership and reporting to the Global General Counsel. The role will have broad responsibility across commercial transactions, government affairs, regulatory and compliance matters, strategic legal and regulatory risk, and oversight of patent litigation matters handled primarily by global and outside counsel.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior strategic legal advisor to the company’s North American business and executive leadership, providing guidance on business strategy, legal and regulatory risk, and growth initiatives.
• Lead legal support for commercial transactions and strategic business matters across the U.S. business.
• Advise on government affairs, regulatory, and compliance matters affecting the company’s North American operations.
• Manage and develop relationships with key counterparties, regulators, external stakeholders, and outside counsel.
• Provide senior-level oversight of patent litigation matters, working in coordination with the company’s global legal team and external counsel rather than handling day-to-day litigation activities.
• Partner closely with the Global General Counsel and senior business leaders across the organization on significant legal, regulatory, and strategic matters.
• Develop a strong understanding of the company’s North American business and technology environment to provide practical, commercially focused legal advice.
• Direct and manage outside counsel and other subject-matter specialists on complex or highly technical legal matters.
• Support the continued growth of the U.S. legal function, including evaluating legal resourcing needs and helping to hire, develop, and lead the team as the business expands.
• Build strong relationships across the organization and work collaboratively with senior executives, business teams, and other stakeholders in the U.S. and globally.
• Exercise sound judgment regarding when matters can be managed internally and when specialist external expertise is required.

Qualifications

• U.S.-qualified lawyer with extensive senior-level in-house legal experience, ideally including experience as a General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, Associate General Counsel, divisional legal head, or comparable senior legal leader.
• Significant experience within the U.S. technology sector, with strong knowledge of the Silicon Valley and/or broader U.S. technology ecosystem.
• Semiconductor industry experience required.
• Broad generalist background spanning commercial transactions, regulatory and government affairs, compliance, and strategic legal risk.
• Significant experience negotiating and overseeing sophisticated commercial transactions.
• Demonstrated ability to advise C-suite executives and senior business leaders on complex legal, regulatory, and strategic matters.
• Leadership experience with the ability to assess organizational needs and strategically build, develop, and lead a legal team.
• Strong industry relationships and understanding of the legal, commercial, and regulatory environment affecting U.S. technology companies.
• Experience effectively managing outside counsel and directing specialist legal resources on complex or technical matters.
• Strong commercial judgment with the ability to balance legal and regulatory considerations against business objectives.
• Comfortable working across geographic regions and collaborating with global leadership, including a Global General Counsel based in Taiwan.
• Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.
• Hybrid role – approximately 2–3 days onsite per week in Austin
• Full-time opportunity – approximately 40 hours per week
• Initial three-month secondment with the potential to convert to a permanent position
• 401(k) with company match
• PTO and paid federal holidays
• Optional medical coverage; HSA Account; Wellness Program
• Employee Assistance Program

About Epiq Counsel

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers and legal professionals work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each professional's practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.

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