Corporate Counsel: Compliance & Legal Affairs
Description
About Us
At Nuna, we believe every family deserves thoughtfully designed products that combine safety, innovation, and style. As a global premium baby gear brand, our core values of Community, Generosity, Teamwork, and Excellence guide everything we do, from creating high-quality products to fostering a collaborative and supportive workplace.
We are committed to continuous growth, meaningful impact, and making a difference for families around the world.
Currently we are looking for a Corporate Counsel of Compliance & Legal Affairs to provide practical, business-focused legal guidance across a broad range of compliance, commercial, contractual, and risk management matters.
About The Role
This position serves as a trusted advisor to business leaders by supporting strategic initiatives, ensuring regulatory compliance, mitigating legal risks, and helping the Company achieve its business objectives through sound legal counsel. The role will lead and support compliance programs, contract negotiations, policy development, and general legal matters while partnering with internal stakeholders across multiple functions. The position will also assist with litigation and dispute resolution matters as they arise, including management of outside counsel and support of investigations, claims, and legal proceedings.
What You’ll Be Doing
Compliance & Risk Management
- Support the development, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of the Company's compliance and ethics programs.
- Advise business leaders on applicable legal and regulatory requirements and assist in developing practical compliance solutions.
- Draft, review, and update company policies, procedures, and governance practices.
- Conduct legal and compliance training for employees and management.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to identify, assess, and mitigate legal, regulatory, and operational risks.
- Assist with internal investigations, compliance reviews, and corrective action initiatives as needed.
Commercial Contracts & Business Counseling
- Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a broad range of commercial agreements, including vendor, supplier, service, consulting, marketing, confidentiality, licensing, and distribution agreements.
- Provide practical legal guidance regarding contract interpretation, risk allocation, and commercial negotiations.
- Advise stakeholders regarding contractual obligations, rights, and business risks.
- Support contract lifecycle management processes and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with business leaders to structure commercial relationships that appropriately balance risk and business objectives.
General Legal Support
- Provide day-to-day legal counsel to internal clients on a wide variety of business, operational, and strategic matters.
- Conduct legal research and prepare analyses, recommendations, and guidance for management.
- Support corporate governance, legal operations, and enterprise risk management initiatives.
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments and advise stakeholders on emerging risks and required actions.
- Manage outside counsel relationships and legal spend as appropriate.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution Support
- Assist in the management of litigation, claims, disputes, and investigations involving the Company.
- Experience in, or interest in learning, various areas of litigation, including product liability, employment and intellectual property.
- Partner with internal and outside counsel regarding litigation strategy, discovery, document preservation, and case management activities.
- Support pre-litigation assessments, demand responses, settlement discussions, and dispute resolution efforts.
- Analyze legal risks associated with claims and disputes and provide practical recommendations to business leaders.
- Develop familiarity with litigation management and dispute resolution processes as part of ongoing professional development.
Strategic Partnership
- Serve as a trusted legal advisor and cross-functional business partner.
- Build strong relationships across departments to proactively identify legal risks and support business objectives.
- Provide timely, practical, and solution-oriented legal advice that balances legal requirements with commercial goals.
- Perform additional legal projects and responsibilities as assigned.
This position description is intended to provide a summary of the essential duties, tasks, and responsibilities of this position and shall not be considered an exhaustive listing of all work requirements.