Commercial Counsel, Legal Center of Efficiency

About the role

GE Vernova is establishing a Legal Center of Efficiency and is looking for the founding Commercial Counsel. Reporting to the Chief Corporate Counsel and working closely with Legal Operations, the role provides hands-on legal review and negotiation while building a scalable, technology-enabled model for high-volume, repeatable agreements, starting with NDAs. The role begins in 2026 with NDAs and expands to other agreement types from 2027.

Key responsibilities

• Draft, review, negotiate and sign off on mutual and one-way NDAs, including escalated and non-standard terms.
• Expand the Center's scope to a portfolio of commercial contracts such as customer and vendor agreements and master service agreements.
• Define risk positions, fallback language and approval thresholds for standard and non-standard terms.
• Act as the legal escalation point for terms exceeding pre-approved thresholds.
• Advise the Chief Corporate Counsel and GCs on legal risk trends and recommend updates to templates and thresholds.
• Help design the NDA intake, triage and escalation process, the NDA playbook, RACI, templates and training materials with Legal Operations.
• Support adoption across business units, the General Counsel community and functions such as procurement and commercial teams.
• Support KPI reporting (cycle time, escalation rate, rework rate, legal hours saved, self-service adoption) and the controlled pilot and phased rollout.
• Support self-service and AI-enabled tools for routine NDAs.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in law from an accredited university.
• Minimum 8 years of post-qualification experience in commercial contracting, with strong command of NDAs and other high-volume, repeatable agreements.
• In-house or high-volume legal experience strongly preferred; comfort in a fast-paced, evolving build stage.
• Fluency in English; additional languages a plus.
• Experience building or transforming a legal process or program from scratch, with influence across legal, business and operations.

Required skills

• Fluency with legal technology, CLM and AI-enabled tools.
• Track record of building or transforming a legal process, function or program.
• Familiarity with GE Vernova's energy, power and electrification sectors is a plus.