Our client, a long-established, mission-driven California organization with a diversified group of affiliated nonprofit and operating entities, is seeking a General Counsel to lead the legal function across a complex, matrixed enterprise. The General Counsel will be employed by the parent organization and manage legal matters across six affiliated entities, supporting multiple CEOs, senior leaders, and boards of directors.
This is a hybrid position with a preference for candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The organization has offices and operations throughout California, including Northern and Southern California.
Reporting to the CEO who oversees shared services, the General Counsel will serve as a practical, business-oriented advisor across the enterprise. The role will have accountability to four CEOs through the shared-services model and will work closely with leadership across the seven corporate entities. This is an established legal function with a long history of stable leadership, and the incoming General Counsel will inherit a model that relies on outside counsel for specialized matters while taking primary ownership of general corporate, commercial, contracts, governance, and day-to-day legal needs.