Associate General Counsel, Group Benefit Solutions Counsel, Absence Management
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New York LifeEmployee benefits
United StatesFull-TimeSenior
SalarySalary Range: $166,500-$238,000
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Job Details
- Experience
- Five or more years of relevant legal experience
Requirements
- Hold a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an ABA-accredited law school.
- Maintain active membership in good standing in at least one state bar.
- Have five or more years of relevant legal experience in a law firm, corporate legal department, insurance company, employee benefits organization, absence management provider, or comparable environment.
- Have meaningful experience advising on absence management, employee leave, workplace accommodations, employee benefits, employment law, or a closely related area.
- Bring experience with FMLA, ADA, PWFA, and state paid family medical leave programs.
- Analyze complex, evolving legal requirements and translate them into clear, practical advice for product, operational, and business teams.
- Demonstrate business judgment and communicate legal risk to support informed decisions.
- Draft and negotiate client agreements and develop contract templates or playbooks.
- Know laws and regulations affecting leave and absence management, including federal and state leave requirements, statutory disability and paid leave programs, and workplace accommodations.
- Preferred: experience advising an insurer, employee benefits organization, third-party administrator, or absence management or leave administration provider.
- Preferred: knowledge of ERISA and insurance regulation, and experience supporting group insurance or employee benefits products and services.
- Preferred: experience with technology-enabled administrative services, regulatory-change initiatives, or cross-functional partners.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a principal legal resource on matters affecting leave administration, statutory disability, paid family and medical leave, workplace accommodations, and related products and services.
- Advise on product strategy, design, development, implementation, administration, distribution, marketing, client arrangements, and ongoing enhancements.
- Analyze federal, state, and local legal requirements and translate them into practical product, administrative, and operational guidance.
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments and work with stakeholders to assess impacts and implement appropriate changes.
- Provide risk-based advice to business leaders, identifying legal risks, uncertainty, options, and potential mitigants.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to address operational and client issues and develop practical solutions.
- Review, draft, and negotiate client agreements and develop contract provisions, templates, guidance, and playbooks.
- Advise on related ERISA, group insurance regulation, employment law, privacy, data use, and technology issues.
- Support new product and service launches and advise on client communications, marketing materials, implementation approaches, and operating models.
- Lead or participate in initiatives to improve legal-service delivery and enhance legal and business processes.
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