Core Responsibilities
1. Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
2. Acts as a subject matter expert and provides business leaders with legal advice on issues impacting Vanguard's business activities and investment products. Ensures that business activities, policies, practices, and transactions comply with all relevant laws and regulations.
3. Facilitates team operations including case assignment, budgeting, and professional development.
4. Reviews and approves legal documents such as regulatory filings, contracts, and correspondence of legal significance. Leads the negotiation of complex agreements.
5. Counsels senior management on policies, complex legal issues, and proposed changes in laws and regulations affecting Vanguard's business activities and investment products.
6. Represents the organization in the most complex, controversial, significant, or specialized legal proceedings before courts, government agencies, or other authorities so the organization's interests are protected.
7. Oversees the work being performed by outside counsel. Reviews and evaluates outside counsel invoices.
8. Maintains a high level of expertise in regulatory law, Vanguard-s business and products, and the investment industry. Stays abreast of industry and regulatory developments affecting Vanguard, and maintains affiliations with relevant industry, compliance, and risk associations. Builds and maintains an external network and keeps up to date on trends and best practices in the industry.
9. Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Join us as we celebrate 50 years of empowering our 50 million investor-owners.* Since our founding in 1975, we’ve been on a mission to help investors achieve their goals.
With no outside shareholders to answer to, we make decisions—including keeping investing costs as low as possible—with our clients’ needs in mind. Whether you’re investing for your first house, college for your kids, or a comfortable retirement, you can be confident we’re on your side.
We are a community that thinks—and feels—differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Let’s celebrate 50 years together.
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*As of January 2025
