Allstate
Commercial Counsel | Hybrid | Chicago/Northbrook, IL
Key aspects of the role:
- Drive sales growth by engaging with interested prospective customers- all while working remote
- No cold calling— Connect through inbound calls and proactive outbound calls with active insurance shoppers
- Enjoy competitive compensation with a base salary + uncapped commissions
- Sell reputable products from Allstate and our family of brands
Role overview
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.
Job Description
We are looking for a creative and high energy attorney interested in working at the nexus of law, business, technology, and data.
This role will join the Business Law & Compliance division of Allstate’s Law and Regulation enterprise to provide broad commercial counseling for Allstate’s emerging and non-insurance businesses as well as support matters across the enterprise relating to technology and privacy.
Embrace the excitement of constant victories and new challenges in this dynamic role!
Key Responsibilities:
• Real time and critical business-focused commercial legal advice for a broad range of businesses and issues, including advising on product, marketing, and sales
• Structure, draft, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including technology, data, and service contracts
• Advise business partners on emerging business issues, legal subjects and risk management primarily in areas of commercial contract, regulatory, privacy, and consumer protection
• Executive presence and concise verbal and written communication a must
• Play a key role in executing strategy, action planning, and communication with business partners, business units, and other areas of Law & Regulation
• Anticipate legal concerns and provide creative problem solving in a dynamic business environment
• Complex research as to applicability of pertinent laws, statutes, regulations, rules, and other legal authority; ability to summarize concisely and collaborate with other areas of company to determine impact of new legal authority on business and enable action plans
• Understand interaction in regulated environments between business, policy, compliance, legislative and legal frameworks
• Comfort with executing on goals and objectives through ambiguity and in a changing business and legal landscape
• Execution abilities within a parent company and its family of companies
• Ability to manage outside counsel and budgets
• Prefer experience in the following areas: technology, commercial, artificial intelligence, data, privacy, intellectual property, and/or highly regulated sectors
• Business acumen with ability to quantify return on investments (create and contribute to business cases and risk evaluations)
• Assist in building a culture of constructive debate and conversations with a virtual team across multiple locations
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job may have informal supervisory duties.
A typical day for a Commercial Counsel might include::
• Advising business partners on a new technology product rollout or a new corporate structure
• Coordinating, understanding, and synthesizing complex legal advice from other attorneys within Law and Regulation and outside experts to advise business partners in a simple, direct manner
• Drafting a complex data licensing arrangement or commercial deals
• Driving implementation of a compliance plan
We are fortunate to have a talented, engaged, and hard-working team and are looking for someone with those same qualities. You might be the right fit if:
• You thrive on advising in areas of law that are unsettled and constantly changing
• You understand how to build new, efficient processes
• You volunteer ideas and creative solutions
• You are comfortable working with both a legal and business mindset simultaneously
Education and Experience:
• Juris Doctorate
• 7+ years legal experience in a law firm or an in-house legal department for a mid- to large-sized company typical
• Experience in the following areas: commercial, privacy, technology, cybersecurity, international, intellectual property, strategy, data, and/or highly regulated sectors
• Experience operating within a parent company and its family of companies
• Preference for in-house experience advising a commercial business unit and/or business and work experience outside legal context
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
• Admitted and licensed to practice law in at least one state
Functional Skills:
• Leadership skills, including team building, collaboration, coaching, developing and guiding
• Executive presence and concise verbal and written communication skills
• Budget management skills
• Project management skills
• Computer skills, including MS Office suite, used in or related to the tasks performed
• Analytical skills
• Ability to be discrete and maintain confidentiality with sensitive information
• Business acumen with ability to quantify return on investments (create and contribute to business cases and risk evaluations)
Office Location Requirement:
- This role is primarily based in Illinois, with regular travel to either our Chicago location or our suburban Chicago location. However, for the right candidate, we are open to considering alternative office locations, including Dallas, TX; Scottsdale, AZ; or Charlotte, NC.
#LI-PC1
Skills
Customer Centricity, Digital Literacy, Inclusive Leadership, Learning Agility, Results-Oriented
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is $112,000.00 – 196,750.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
For jobs in San Francisco, please click “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the “EEO is the Law” poster click “here”. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
To view the FMLA poster, click “here”. This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.
It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.
Keys to Success
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
Working in Sales
What We Do:
As an expert on our products and services, you can give customers personalized attention and innovative solutions to make their lives easier.
How We Support You:
Starting day one, you’ll have access to resources and incentives to keep you feeling challenged and excited about your careers.
Make An Impact:
As a member of our sales team, you’ll bring a sense of ease and support to customers looking for a better understanding of their protection options. Whether in the field or talking to customers over the phone, you’ll continue to build trust in who we are and what we do.
Working together
You’re in Good Hands® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make to our employees, too.
We want you to love where you work. That starts with the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on individuality means everyone is seen, heard and respected.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level with access to development programs to support your career aspirations – whatever that means for you. Because as you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world can be even greater when we work together.
Role overview
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.
Job Description
We are looking for a creative and high energy attorney interested in working at the nexus of law, business, technology, and data.
This role will join the Business Law & Compliance division of Allstate’s Law and Regulation enterprise to provide broad commercial counseling for Allstate’s emerging and non-insurance businesses as well as support matters across the enterprise relating to technology and privacy.
Embrace the excitement of constant victories and new challenges in this dynamic role!
Key Responsibilities:
• Real time and critical business-focused commercial legal advice for a broad range of businesses and issues, including advising on product, marketing, and sales
• Structure, draft, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including technology, data, and service contracts
• Advise business partners on emerging business issues, legal subjects and risk management primarily in areas of commercial contract, regulatory, privacy, and consumer protection
• Executive presence and concise verbal and written communication a must
• Play a key role in executing strategy, action planning, and communication with business partners, business units, and other areas of Law & Regulation
• Anticipate legal concerns and provide creative problem solving in a dynamic business environment
• Complex research as to applicability of pertinent laws, statutes, regulations, rules, and other legal authority; ability to summarize concisely and collaborate with other areas of company to determine impact of new legal authority on business and enable action plans
• Understand interaction in regulated environments between business, policy, compliance, legislative and legal frameworks
• Comfort with executing on goals and objectives through ambiguity and in a changing business and legal landscape
• Execution abilities within a parent company and its family of companies
• Ability to manage outside counsel and budgets
• Prefer experience in the following areas: technology, commercial, artificial intelligence, data, privacy, intellectual property, and/or highly regulated sectors
• Business acumen with ability to quantify return on investments (create and contribute to business cases and risk evaluations)
• Assist in building a culture of constructive debate and conversations with a virtual team across multiple locations
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job may have informal supervisory duties.
A typical day for a Commercial Counsel might include::
• Advising business partners on a new technology product rollout or a new corporate structure
• Coordinating, understanding, and synthesizing complex legal advice from other attorneys within Law and Regulation and outside experts to advise business partners in a simple, direct manner
• Drafting a complex data licensing arrangement or commercial deals
• Driving implementation of a compliance plan
We are fortunate to have a talented, engaged, and hard-working team and are looking for someone with those same qualities. You might be the right fit if:
• You thrive on advising in areas of law that are unsettled and constantly changing
• You understand how to build new, efficient processes
• You volunteer ideas and creative solutions
• You are comfortable working with both a legal and business mindset simultaneously
Education and Experience:
• Juris Doctorate
• 7+ years legal experience in a law firm or an in-house legal department for a mid- to large-sized company typical
• Experience in the following areas: commercial, privacy, technology, cybersecurity, international, intellectual property, strategy, data, and/or highly regulated sectors
• Experience operating within a parent company and its family of companies
• Preference for in-house experience advising a commercial business unit and/or business and work experience outside legal context
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
• Admitted and licensed to practice law in at least one state
Functional Skills:
• Leadership skills, including team building, collaboration, coaching, developing and guiding
• Executive presence and concise verbal and written communication skills
• Budget management skills
• Project management skills
• Computer skills, including MS Office suite, used in or related to the tasks performed
• Analytical skills
• Ability to be discrete and maintain confidentiality with sensitive information
• Business acumen with ability to quantify return on investments (create and contribute to business cases and risk evaluations)
Office Location Requirement:
- This role is primarily based in Illinois, with regular travel to either our Chicago location or our suburban Chicago location. However, for the right candidate, we are open to considering alternative office locations, including Dallas, TX; Scottsdale, AZ; or Charlotte, NC.
#LI-PC1
Skills
Customer Centricity, Digital Literacy, Inclusive Leadership, Learning Agility, Results-Oriented
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is $112,000.00 – 196,750.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
For jobs in San Francisco, please click “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the “EEO is the Law” poster click “here”. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
To view the FMLA poster, click “here”. This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.
It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.
Keys to Success
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
Working in Claims
What We Do:
Your ability to quickly and calmly make smart decisions can make a huge difference in how confident customers feel throughout the claims process. And as you support our customers, we’re there to support you.
How We Support You:
We empower your success starting day one. You’ll have access to everything you need to grow professionally while helping our customers get their lives back on track.
Make An Impact:
Helping customers with their claims is about learning their stories, not just processing their paperwork. You can take pride in the fact that you’re providing invaluable guidance and helping to build continued trust in our company.
Working together
You’re in Good Hands® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make to our employees, too.
We want you to love where you work. That starts with the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on individuality means everyone is seen, heard and respected.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level with access to development programs to support your career aspirations – whatever that means for you. Because as you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world can be even greater when we work together.
Role overview
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.
Job Description
We are looking for a creative and high energy attorney interested in working at the nexus of law, business, technology, and data.
This role will join the Business Law & Compliance division of Allstate’s Law and Regulation enterprise to provide broad commercial counseling for Allstate’s emerging and non-insurance businesses as well as support matters across the enterprise relating to technology and privacy.
Embrace the excitement of constant victories and new challenges in this dynamic role!
Key Responsibilities:
• Real time and critical business-focused commercial legal advice for a broad range of businesses and issues, including advising on product, marketing, and sales
• Structure, draft, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including technology, data, and service contracts
• Advise business partners on emerging business issues, legal subjects and risk management primarily in areas of commercial contract, regulatory, privacy, and consumer protection
• Executive presence and concise verbal and written communication a must
• Play a key role in executing strategy, action planning, and communication with business partners, business units, and other areas of Law & Regulation
• Anticipate legal concerns and provide creative problem solving in a dynamic business environment
• Complex research as to applicability of pertinent laws, statutes, regulations, rules, and other legal authority; ability to summarize concisely and collaborate with other areas of company to determine impact of new legal authority on business and enable action plans
• Understand interaction in regulated environments between business, policy, compliance, legislative and legal frameworks
• Comfort with executing on goals and objectives through ambiguity and in a changing business and legal landscape
• Execution abilities within a parent company and its family of companies
• Ability to manage outside counsel and budgets
• Prefer experience in the following areas: technology, commercial, artificial intelligence, data, privacy, intellectual property, and/or highly regulated sectors
• Business acumen with ability to quantify return on investments (create and contribute to business cases and risk evaluations)
• Assist in building a culture of constructive debate and conversations with a virtual team across multiple locations
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job may have informal supervisory duties.
A typical day for a Commercial Counsel might include::
• Advising business partners on a new technology product rollout or a new corporate structure
• Coordinating, understanding, and synthesizing complex legal advice from other attorneys within Law and Regulation and outside experts to advise business partners in a simple, direct manner
• Drafting a complex data licensing arrangement or commercial deals
• Driving implementation of a compliance plan
We are fortunate to have a talented, engaged, and hard-working team and are looking for someone with those same qualities. You might be the right fit if:
• You thrive on advising in areas of law that are unsettled and constantly changing
• You understand how to build new, efficient processes
• You volunteer ideas and creative solutions
• You are comfortable working with both a legal and business mindset simultaneously
Education and Experience:
• Juris Doctorate
• 7+ years legal experience in a law firm or an in-house legal department for a mid- to large-sized company typical
• Experience in the following areas: commercial, privacy, technology, cybersecurity, international, intellectual property, strategy, data, and/or highly regulated sectors
• Experience operating within a parent company and its family of companies
• Preference for in-house experience advising a commercial business unit and/or business and work experience outside legal context
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
• Admitted and licensed to practice law in at least one state
Functional Skills:
• Leadership skills, including team building, collaboration, coaching, developing and guiding
• Executive presence and concise verbal and written communication skills
• Budget management skills
• Project management skills
• Computer skills, including MS Office suite, used in or related to the tasks performed
• Analytical skills
• Ability to be discrete and maintain confidentiality with sensitive information
• Business acumen with ability to quantify return on investments (create and contribute to business cases and risk evaluations)
Office Location Requirement:
- This role is primarily based in Illinois, with regular travel to either our Chicago location or our suburban Chicago location. However, for the right candidate, we are open to considering alternative office locations, including Dallas, TX; Scottsdale, AZ; or Charlotte, NC.
#LI-PC1
Skills
Customer Centricity, Digital Literacy, Inclusive Leadership, Learning Agility, Results-Oriented
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is $112,000.00 – 196,750.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
For jobs in San Francisco, please click “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the “EEO is the Law” poster click “here”. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
To view the FMLA poster, click “here”. This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.
It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.
Keys to Success
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
Working together
You’re in Good Hands® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make to our employees, too.
We want you to love where you work. That starts with the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on individuality means everyone is seen, heard and respected.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level with access to development programs to support your career aspirations – whatever that means for you. Because as you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world can be even greater when we work together.
Benefits
Experience the benefits that make Allstate a great place to work.
*Benefits vary based on position.
Health
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- HSAs and FSAs
- Wellbeing programs
- Free therapy sessions
Retirement
- 401(k) plan
- Pension plan
- Free financial counseling
Work-life balance
- Paid time off
- Work flexibility
Career development
- Talent shares
- Tuition reimbursement
- Learning opportunities
For a full description of Allstate’s benefits visit our benefits page
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