About Rivian
Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.
As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.
Responsibilities
- Work with Legal Department personnel to defend Rivian against claims, lawsuits, and allegations that bear on Rivian products.
- Assist Legal Department personnel with the evaluation of matters that involve Rivian products.
- Open, close, maintain, and otherwise manage case files on legal matters that involve Rivian products.
- Develop and coordinate processes with respect to the internal handling of legal matters that involve Rivian products.
- Assist in gathering information to create and respond to legal documents including pleadings, briefs, and other filings in matters that implicate Rivian products.
- Assist legal team with responding to law enforcement and civil subpoenas, search warrants, and other data requests.
- Assist legal team and outside counsel and experts to prepare for depositions, mediations, settlement conferences, arbitrations, and trials.
- Act as an information liaison between outside counsel, hired consultants, internal engineering groups, and case manager attorneys investigating and defending matters that involve Rivian products.
- Assist legal team and outside counsel with responding to discovery, including drafting written responses and searching internal databases, files, and other internal sources for responsive information.
- Attend depositions, mediations, settlement conferences, arbitrations, and trials, as necessary.
- Participate in case resolution meetings with outside counsel and in-house staff.
- Communicate with customers with respect to decisions made by the Repurchase Compliance Program.
- Assist senior leaders and field investigation personnel in legal, business, and engineering disciplines in incident investigation planning and logistics.
- Analyze escalated customer concern review requests from Customer Engagement, Service, Quality, and other business teams and ensure their appropriate distribution among internal teams.
- Manage the storage and distribution of Rivian vehicles allocated to the Product Defense team.
- Interface with Rivian’s internal Enterprise Risk and Insurance Team on claims and litigation.
Qualifications
- ABA paralegal certification or relevant bachelor’s degree.
- 6+ years of experience working as a paralegal in a law firm, government, or in-house legal setting.
- Ability to travel and represent the company in an unsupervised environment.
- Experience working cross-functionally with various business teams, engineering disciplines, and legal personnel.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
- Motivated by a team-oriented environment and working collaboratively with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Solid experience with legal technology, including Microsoft eDiscovery, Purview, and other platforms.
- This is what will make you stand out:
- Law degree.
- 6+ years of direct experience in the automotive industry.
- Experience working with legal, business, and engineering teams at arbitrations and trials for an automotive OEM.
- First-hand experience communicating with opposing counsel and customers on complex matters of legal significance.
Pay Disclosure
Hourly Range for Irvine, CA based applicants: $51/hour – $59/hour (Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location and other factors permitted by law).
Benefits Summary: Rivian provides robust medical/Rx, dental and vision insurance packages for full-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26. Coverage is effective on the first day of employment, and Rivian covers most of the premiums.
Equal Opportunity
Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.
Candidate Data Privacy
Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivian’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.
Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.