Job Duties and Responsibilities

Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview.

EchoStar seeks an Associate Corporate Counsel to join its dynamic legal department in Littleton, Colorado, supporting commercial transactions across wireless services, telecommunications infrastructure, enterprise solutions, and regulated industries. The Associate Corporate Counsel resolves complex legal and commercial issues involving roaming, transport, network infrastructure, and enterprise partner relationships while providing concise, practical guidance to business teams. This role mitigates legal risks, supports strategic commercial initiatives, and enhances internal legal contracting processes to balance regulatory, operational, and organizational goals.

What Success Looks Like (Objectives):

• Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements to enable wireless, enterprise, and infrastructure initiatives
• Support critical transactions involving transport, network infrastructure, data centers, and backhaul agreements
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve issues regarding telecommunications compliance, privacy, data security, and service commitments
• Deliver concise, business-oriented guidance on contract interpretation, commercial risk, and dispute avoidance
• Optimize legal contracting efficiency through the maintenance of playbooks, templates, policies, and procedures
• Leverage legal AI application tools to streamline contract review, template creation, and risk analysis workflows

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Core Skills and Competencies (What you'll bring):

• Exceptional technical drafting expertise and meticulous attention to detail in high-volume commercial transactional work
• Strong skills in problem solving and analytical thinking to translate complex legal and regulatory issues into actionable business advice
• Ability to collaborate effectively across legal, business, regulatory, finance, and operational teams
• AI Literacy and Application skills to enhance contract review processes and operational legal workflows
• Critical experience drafting, reviewing, or negotiating commercial, technology, telecommunications, or enterprise customer agreements
• Critical experience proactively identifying legal risks and navigating fast-paced, regulated environment challenges

Additional Qualifications:

• Prior in-house legal department experience
• Experience in the wireless, telecommunications, infrastructure, technology, enterprise services, or regulated-industries sectors
• Familiarity with roaming, interconnection, transport, fiber, data center, colocation, managed services, or network infrastructure agreements

Minimum Requirements:

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree or international equivalent, with an active license to practice law in at least one U.S. state and the ability to meet Colorado admission requirements
• 1 to 4 years of legal experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department, focusing on commercial transactions
• Must have at least 1 year of experience with:
• Commercial, technology, or telecommunications agreement drafting and negotiation
• Assessing legal risk within enterprise customer, vendor, or intercarrier arrangements
• Cross-functional collaboration with business, technical, and operational teams

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role

Salary Ranges

Compensation: $116,875.00/Year - $158,125.00/Year
Benefits

We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: EchoStar Benefits.

The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.