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GEICO is looking for an experienced legal professional with background in insurance products to serve as an embedded Product Legal Advisor . Your role will be to support the personal auto business as they develop new products or ways of doing business and refine their work. You’ll do this by building a strong relationship with your business unit to understand their goals and plans, quickly learning their objectives and how they plan on achieving them, and then advising on legal requirements in language appropriate for smart businesspeople who don’t have a legal background. As you see where your business unit is headed, you’ll also advise them on future risks and opportunities. When your business unit needs specialized legal expertise, you’ll coordinate with your colleagues in the legal department who have specialized skills to make sure your business unit gets the support it needs to excel.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Under general supervision, understand all key business objectives and means of accomplishing them for assigned business unit(s)
• Provide legal advice related to business unit’s plans and anticipate future legal needs
• Coordinate support for assigned business units from other parts of the legal department
• Use wide range of legal knowledge to issue and spot any implications of business choice that could interact with multiple legal subject areas such as privacy, insurance compliance, consumer-protection laws, intellectual property, and contractual obligations

Basic Qualifications:

• Strongly prefers candidates to have at least 5 years of experience at a law firm or in-house serving as a legal advisor for products within property/casualty insurance
• Must have a law degree and an active law license to practice in the United States of America
• Strong listening and communication skills
• Ability to quickly digest and understand business plans, processes, and procedures
• Ability to provide legal advice with incomplete information
• Superb judgement about legal and legal-adjacent risks as well as mitigation opportunities
• Must be solution oriented
• Preferred to have experience in product counseling or as a product attorney
• Must have demonstrated experience solving business problems and advancing business metrics

Location: Hybrid – This position requires the individual to work 2-3 days onsite at our Chevy Chase, MD or New York, NY location

Annual Salary

$162,000.00 - $274,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures
• Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.
• Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.