Associate General Counsel, Litigation, Employment, and Compliance

Who we are... Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. We develop technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. We are fostering the development of safe cities, working with police departments and municipalities to install over 4,000 red-light, speed, and school bus stop arm safety cameras across North America. We are also creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for over 8.5 million vehicles. And we are a leading provider of connected systems, processing nearly 165 million transactions each year across 50+ individual tolling authorities.  Culture  Verra Mobility Corporation is a dynamic, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values - Do What’s Right, Choose Courage over Comfort, Win Together, and Own It - in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with a bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence. Position Overview: Join Verra Mobility as an Associate General Counsel, and you will join a dynamic legal team that operates in true partnership with our innovative business teams. This role will report to the Deputy General Counsel and will be responsible for providing broad-based legal support across a wide range of operational matters, including litigation, employment, and compliance. You will serve as a key legal advisor on litigation matters, employment law, enterprise compliance infrastructure, and ethics oversight, while also partnering closely with cross-functional teams to identify legal risks, develop effective solutions, and support company objectives while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Your work will span a wide range of legal subject matters, and each week will bring fresh and varied challenges. We are a legal team that celebrates our responsibility for driving growth and success for our company. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, and in a business focused on profitable, rapid, and sustainable growth, then this opportunity is for you. Essential Responsibilities: The successful individual will need to be able to work independently and manage a high volume of legal assignments. The role is ideal for someone who loves being a lawyer but also enjoys business, appreciates process orientation, makes risk-adjusted decisions, loves winning, and accepts accountability. In addition, the responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to, the following: While collaborating directly with our business teams you will be: Serving as a senior legal advisor to executive leadership on litigation exposure, employment risks, enterprise compliance, and privacy/security matters; Managing and overseeing litigation, disputes, and pre-litigation matters, including supervising outside counsel and coordinating legal strategy; Providing legal counsel on employment law matters, including employee relations, workplace policies, investigations, and compliance with federal, state, and local labor laws; Leading and enhancing the company’s global corporate compliance program, including code of conduct governance, policy framework management, risk assessments, training, communications, and program enhancements aligned with regulatory expectations; Overseeing ethics and investigations processes, including hotline administration, internal investigations, remediation efforts, disciplinary coordination, responding to government inquiries, and managing interactions with regulators and enforcement agencies; Ensuring compliance across key enterprise risk areas, including anti-corruption, competition, conflicts of interest, insider trading, third-party due diligence, trade compliance, and other compliance obligations; Partnering with Security, IT, HR, Internal Audit, and operational leadership teams on cybersecurity, privacy, AI governance, and information governance matters. Providing leadership and mentorship within the Legal Department and helping drive legal operational excellence and scalable processes. Developing and supporting compliance reporting, metrics, and strategic recommendations to strengthen internal controls and promote a culture of integrity; Recommending investigation pathways, policy enhancements, training priorities, and control improvements, while escalating matters involving material financial exposure, senior executive conduct, or significant reputational risk; Supporting Board and executive-level reporting related to litigation, compliance, and enterprise risk management; Advising on and optimizing legal risk and compliance considerations, while suggesting creative, business-supportive solutions; Issue-spotting potential legal challenges, and running them to ground; and Proactively identifying and anticipating emerging legal and regulatory issues that might impact our products and services. Additional duties include: Supporting the company’s privacy and data protection program, including advising on the collection, access, use, sharing, retention, and protection of personally identifiable information (PII), and ensuring compliance with applicable privacy laws, regulations, and internal policies; Supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions by assisting with legal due diligence, risk assessment, integration planning, and coordination with internal stakeholders and outside counsel; Collaborating with IP counsel on patent and other IP-related matters; Developing strong collaborative working relationships with colleagues and business stakeholders; Managing outside counsel, as required; Supporting the Deputy General Counsel with day-to-day legal management and workflow;