Staff Attorney

Reporting to our General Counsel, as a Staff Attorney you will:

• Provide legal advice, counsel, and service to internal business clients concerning legal rights, obligations, opportunities and privileges, by:
• Review, draft and negotiating contracts.
• Provide hands-on legal counsel to personnel at all levels of the company.
• Identify, research, and analyze legal issues.
• Recommend and draft company policies.
• Develop, coordinating legal and compliance trainings.
• Support large legal projects.
• Manage outside counsel.

At Kao, we offer amazing benefits that are available to you on your first day of employment (healthcare, 401(k) plus company match), 36 total days off (vacation + holidays + sick) and a reasonable salary range of $85,000 - $105,000. We also offer a hybrid work environment.

What you will do:

• Analyze legal issues, draft policies (including compliance policies and public facing privacy policies), and draft contracts including confidentiality agreements, technology and license agreements, privacy and data security agreements, HR agreements, distributor agreements, supply and service agreements, logistics agreements, real property and equipment leases, product development and joint development agreements, manufacturing agreements, marketing agreements (including influencer agreements).
• Provide day to day hands-on legal counsel (by email and in-person or virtual meetings) to personnel at all levels of the company, while also supporting large and complex legal projects.
• Regularly interact with other legal team members regarding legal issues, coordination of legal work, and legal operations.
• Develop and conduct legal and compliance trainings.

What you will need:

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and active law license in good standing
• 5+ years of legal experience
• Experience creating and conducting legal and compliance trainings
• Experience providing hands-on legal counsel to clients
• Experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating contracts
• Experience recommending and drafting company policies

How we work: Having been selected among the World's Most Ethical Companies for 18 consecutive years, we are a company with a purpose and strong corporate values. We never compromise on quality and create our products with care for the consumer and the environment. At Kao, each employee can shape their job and their career. We work collaboratively to achieve our common goals, always aiming to deliver the best for our customers.

What we offer: A friendly and flexible work environment with great compensation packages, benefits package, ongoing development and the opportunity to enhance your skills and deliver tangible results. At Kao your voice will be heard. Your opinion really counts. We believe that change comes from taking opportunities into your own hands, so we value and reward entrepreneurial thinking and new ideas.

Hiring Process: Kao embraces the diversity and the individual personalities of its people because we believe it is diversity that makes us strong. This is why we welcome applications from all areas of the global community.

Want to learn more: If you feel you are as unique as our products and want to find out why 33,000 people across the globe opted for a career with us please visit our Americas website (https://www.kao.com/americas/en/).

Kao is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans

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