Senior Legal Executive/General Counsel Coach

Accountabilities

• • Provide high-quality one-to-one coaching to members through virtual sessions using dedicated coaching platforms and tools.
  • Help members establish clear professional goals, identify actionable steps, track progress, and maintain accountability.
  • Draw on your senior legal leadership experience to help members strengthen leadership capabilities, communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and workplace effectiveness.
  • Support members as they navigate complex professional situations, leadership challenges, career decisions, and organizational dynamics.
  • Create a safe, respectful, empathetic, and confidential environment where members can openly explore challenges and take meaningful steps toward growth.
  • Communicate with members between coaching sessions through dedicated email and in-app messaging to maintain continuity and momentum.
  • Participate in required and ongoing coach training to strengthen coaching capabilities and apply the established coaching methodology consistently.
  • Engage actively with the coaching community by sharing relevant coaching tools, legal leadership insights, experiences, and best practices.
  • Contribute to a collaborative coaching culture centered on learning, growth, empathy, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
  • Act as an ambassador for the coaching community by demonstrating professionalism, kindness, respect, sound judgment, and emotional intelligence.
  • Maintain a consistent coaching commitment of at least 12+ hours per month for a minimum of 24 months to support meaningful long-term member relationships.
  • Successfully complete the required ICF-certified coach training program before beginning coaching engagements and apply the methodology throughout your coaching practice.

  Requirements:

  • 20+ years of professional experience in legal leadership, including substantial experience leading legal teams within or adjacent to the technology industry.
  • Experience serving as a General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, senior legal executive, or equivalent leader with responsibility for a European legal organization or office within a U.S.-headquartered technology company.
  • Demonstrated experience managing, developing, mentoring, and coaching legal professionals and other leaders.
  • Strong executive presence and the ability to draw on real-world leadership experience without allowing subject-matter expertise to replace a coaching approach.
  • Coaching certification is a plus but not required, as selected coaches participate in the required ICF-certified coach training program.
  • Genuine interest in transforming senior legal leadership experience into meaningful professional coaching skills.
  • Strong self-awareness and emotional intelligence, with the ability to listen actively and create a psychologically safe environment for members.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to ask thoughtful questions, challenge constructively, and help others develop their own solutions.
  • Passion for helping professionals advance in their careers, become stronger leaders, and build fulfilling professional and personal lives.
  • Growth mindset and enthusiasm for learning, feedback, and developing coaching capabilities regardless of previous coaching experience.
  • Comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast-changing, startup-oriented environment.
  • Able to dedicate at least 3–5 hours per week, or a minimum of 12+ hours per month, to coaching responsibilities.
  • Commitment to remaining active for at least 24 months to build meaningful, sustained relationships with members.
  • Comfortable working remotely and collaborating virtually with a distributed coaching community.
  • Candidates must be based in North America or Europe.

  Benefits:

  • Part-time contract opportunity designed to complement other professional and leadership commitments.
  • Fully remote working arrangement.
  • Compensation paid on an hourly basis.
  • Additional bonus opportunities tied to member engagement and community growth.
  • ICF-certified coach training provided to all selected coaches, regardless of previous coaching certification.
  • Opportunity to earn Continuing Coach Education Units upon successful completion of the certified training program.
  • Access to proprietary coaching tools and methodology designed to enhance coaching effectiveness.
  • Ongoing training and professional development to strengthen coaching capabilities.
  • Opportunity to join a collaborative community of experienced coaches and exchange insights, tools, and best practices.
  • Meaningful opportunity to support professionals through leadership development, career transitions, and workplace challenges.
  • Flexible commitment of at least 12+ hours per month, suitable for experienced executives seeking to expand their coaching practice.
  • Long-term opportunity to develop deeper coaching relationships over a minimum 24-month period.
  • Inclusive environment that values diverse professional experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds.
  • Rolling opportunities based on member demand, with successful candidates either invited to an upcoming monthly coaching training cohort or placed on a coach shortlist until demand becomes available.