Principal Corporate Counsel - Antitrust

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

The Competition and Markets Regulation Group helps the company comply with the competition and antitrust laws around the world, close mergers and acquisitions, and respond to investigations. We also engage with regulators, academics, and others to consider the role of competition and antitrust law in the face of our changing economy, the development of new technology, and passage of new laws and regulations. It requires a broad understanding of our industry and our customers, technology, the political environment and the law as well as the ability to effectively collaborate and communicate across disciplines to solve problems. We are hiring a Principal Corporate Counsel - Antitrust to support this important work.

• Subject Expertise - You demonstrate an understanding of competition and antitrust law as well as litigation principles, and review, interpret, and analyze legal information.
• Legal Advice and Counsel - You act as the primary competition and antitrust advisor for one or more major business groups, products, or corporate functions and you identify and anticipate highly complex legal and/or other issues; you serve as a key business partner and advisor to executives and advise them on the potential impact of competition and antitrust laws on the business; you identify and engage stakeholders in Corporate, External and Legal Affairs and escalate and drive decisions.
• Regulatory Compliance – You work in partnership with one or more major business groups to ensure that the requirements of applicable market regulations and/or commitments are implmented in Microsoft’s products and services.
  • You gain an understanding of the requirements as well engagement techniques to clarify those requirements when they are opaque.
  • You commuincate those requirements to the teams implemening them in Mcrosoft products and service and help them interpret the requirements within the context of the particular Microsoft product or service.
  • You work with Microsoft leaders to explain and support Microsoft’s compliance decisions externally to regulators and others.
  • You support internal processes to ensure compliance across time and product releases.
• Solution Implementation - You develop solutions that anticipate and mitigate legal and other risks; you manage and develop relationships with outside counsel and clients to create strategic and innovative solutions that address issues and achieve business objectives; you provide feedback and evaluate process improvements that increase efficiencies.
• Communication - You develop relationships with external and internal legal professionals, academics, government officials, customers, and/or partners to protect and advocate Microsoft's interests and drive results; you take an active role in external outreach initiatives to expand Microsoft's outreach; you collaborate with internal teams and leaders to ensure a Corporate, External and Legal Affairs voice.

Embody our Culture and Values