Assistant General Counsel - Technology Assets

Who You'll Work With

You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact. In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions.
• Exceptional benefits: In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.

Your Impact

As an Assistant General Counsel (Technology Assets) as part of our Technology Legal Team, you will be based in one of our European offices. The Technology Legal Team has global responsibilities covering a wide range of technology legal topics, including advising and reviewing new technology products and services, acting as product counsel to our internal and client-facing teams, analyzing and preparing for regulatory changes, advising our information security team, and supporting our regional lawyers.

Your role will focus primarily on our asset portfolio—reviewing new assets in development and acting as product counsel throughout an asset’s lifecycle. You will work closely with the wider McKinsey Legal Department and other firm functions to structure, negotiate and execute arrangements regarding assets from inception to completion.

You will review and advise our consulting and asset teams on technology products that we build as a service to our firm and clients. You will monitor regulatory proposals and changes, developing strategies for implementing regulatory requirements, and educating our teams outside of legal on regulatory developments in their space.

You will also identify best practices to address legal and professional issues impacting the firm’s business, including counseling consultants on the application of McKinsey’s internal policies, as well as drafting, reviewing and negotiating complex contracts relating to asset deployment, software, artificial intelligence, data analytics, cyber security, and data usage.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• Law degree (e.g., LLB, JD), and licensure to practice law.
• 5+ years’ experience advising on at least several of the matters referenced above.
• Fluent in English.
• Team player who is highly collaborative, collegiate, and flexible.
• Commercial awareness, including the ability to identify the most salient pressure points in complex technological scenarios.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Excellent organization capabilities.
• Excellent communication abilities.
• Proficient in rational decision making based on data, facts, and logical reasoning.
• Exceptional time management to meet your responsibilities in a complex and largely autonomous work environment.
• Ability to work or attend meetings outside of traditional business hours.
• Comfort in a highly challenging, fast-paced and dynamic environment.