Senior Paralegal Global Litigation & Compliance

• Operations Management: This is a unique opportunity to for an experienced business-minded paralegal to drive the organization and optimize the functioning of a broad team that covers several diverse substantive areas - litigation regulatory employment and compliance as well as various special business projects. Be a strategic right hand to the team by helping it evolve to match SharkNinja's rapid growth. Some examples include:
  • Oversee matter logistics and manage information flow and reporting.
  • Proactively identify areas to maximize the team's performance and drive efficiency.
  • Project manage special projects inside and outside the Legal Department.
  • Maintain team schedules / calendars.
  • Coordinate budgets bill review and RFPs.
  • Coordinate with outside counsel.
• Litigation: Provide support for the company's litigation matters and disputes including product liability subrogation intellectual property employment and commercial litigation. Tasks include:
  • Track status of the company's litigations and maintain case files.
  • Assist with discovery including collecting and organizing documents for production working with witnesses on written discovery responses coordinating witness interviews and depositions and working with e-discovery vendors.
  • Assist with in-house handling of certain litigation matters including preparation of pleadings and other case documents.
  • Manage and maintain the litigation department's legal hold system.
  • Assist in responding to subpoenas.
  • Manage the company's docket of subrogation matters working with insurance adjusters and the company's third-party claims administrator.
  • Manage pre-litigation personal injury claims.
  • Respond to complaints from consumers retailers state attorneys general and consumer groups (e.g. Better Business Bureau) about the company's products in coordination with members of the sales and customer service teams.
• Regulatory:
  • Assist in the review of product assets (packaging marketing materials online content) for safety and regulatory considerations.
  • Maintain global regulatory classification and pathway to market timelines to be leveraged by cross-functional teams.
• Employment:
  • Manage and track responses to employment-related document requests.
  • Collaborate with People & Culture Team on internal investigations training initiatives and employment-related special projects.
  • Help monitor changes in employment laws and regulations.
  • Assist in preparing responses to audits agency filings (e.g. EEOC DOL) and other employment-related regulatory inquiries.
• Compliance:
  • Track compliance-related legal developments and assist with compliance initiatives.
  • Support compliance investigations.
  • Manage the company's policy library and assist with updating policies as needed.
  • Assist with compliance and other training managed by the legal department.

• 10+ years of experience as a litigation paralegalat a law firm or in-house legal department (experience in both environments is a plus)
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
• Experience with consumer products and medical devices is a plus
• Wide range of litigation experience particularly in areas such as product liability intellectual property and commercial matters
• Experience with large repeat litigation matters
• Experience with litigation processes such as legal hold software matter management systems and e-discovery programs
• Experience with government and regulatory agencies such as the CPSC EPA and FTC
• Experience negotiating and handling personal injury and subrogation matters
• Excellent organization time management and prioritization skills
• Ability to multi-task meet deadlines and work efficiently and effectively in time-sensitive situations
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent interpersonal client service skills communication and written skills
• Ability to integrate with the business and facilitate relationships between the business and the legal department
• Strong research analytical problem-solving and project management skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite or related software and DocuSign

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What We Do

SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positively impact people’s lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted global brands Shark and Ninja the company has a proven track record of bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowed SharkNinja to enter multiple product categories driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham Massachusetts with more than 4000 associates the company’s products are sold at key retailers online and offline and through distributors around the world.

Why Work With Us

Whether your passion is engineering designing marketing or developing at SharkNinja you’ll find we’re all about people. We work together to create world-class products that delight our consumers. Building an admired consumer products problem solving engine is hard; we do it better than others by operating differently.

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