Assistant General Counsel

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you're trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That's why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.Job Description:Crowe LLP is seeking an Assistant General Counsel for a transaction-focused practice. This Assistant General Counsel will lead the review, negotiation, and resolution of complex and high-risk professional services and technology-related agreements for the firm, serve as an escalation point for transactional matters, and own key aspects of Crowe's contracting process. Identifying apparent and hidden risks associated with the business deal and collaborating with others to manage those risks are key functions of the role. The Assistant General Counsel will act as a trusted advisor to partners, business unit leaders, and firm leadership, balancing commercial objectives with legal, regulatory, and reputational risk. The role will report to the leader of the Legal Department's commercial transactions function within Crowe's Firm Risk Management enabling function and is expected to align transactional decision-making, escalation resolution, and negotiation strategy with the guidance provided. The position will have significant exposure to the company's partners, management, and senior leadership across all functional areas. This role also collaborates closely with a globally located legal and contract support team, including colleagues based in India, and requires reasonable availability during overlapping business hours to support effective communication and workflow.Role and Responsibilities:Develop a deep and practical understanding of Crowe's service lines and technology offerings, and business strategies, including the unique risk profiles associated with professional services, consulting, and technology-enabled engagements;Lead and negotiate complex, bespoke, and high-value professional services and technology-related agreements, including master services agreements, engagement letters, confidentiality agreements, business associate agreements, SaaS agreements, data protection agreements, software licenses, subcontractor agreements, government contracts, and related statements of work;Serve as an escalation point for non-standard, high-risk, or novel commercial issues, exercising sound legal and business judgment and partnering with Legal Department leadership on material risk decisions;Negotiate vendor agreements with an understanding of how the vendor will support Crowe's business and the operational, regulatory, and information security risks associated with the vendor's services or products;Review requests for proposals (

Created: 2026-01-16