Assistant General Counsel

Candidates in the DC Metro area will be considered for on-site work at our DC office.

About BlueForge Alliance (BFA): Established in 2022, BlueForge Alliance operates with a culture and singular purpose to serve the men and women defending our nation with the best equipment, platforms, and systems.

BFA accomplishes this by strengthening the U.S.

defense industrial base.

We are specifically focused on advancing and transitioning manufacturing technology; expanding the capacity of the supply chain; and growing and developing the manufacturing workforce.

Position Summary: The Assistant General Counsel is a senior, enterprise-facing legal leader who serves as a connector, influencer, and trusted advisor across BFA and its affiliated entities.

Reporting directly to the Chief Legal Officer, this role is deliberately positioned for high-level thinking, organizational impact, and strategy not transactional throughput.

The Assistant General Counsel translates complex legal, regulatory, and governance considerations into clear, actionable business direction for executive leadership and division leaders, and builds the connective tissue between Legal and the mission-delivery functions it supports.

This is a generalist-with-depth position operating at the intersection of nonprofit/tax-exempt governance, government and defense contracting, and multi-entity corporate management.

The successful candidate will exercise substantial independent judgment, anticipate risk before it materializes, and shape the frameworks, playbooks, and decision rights that allow the organization to move quickly and responsibly at scale.

In addition to the following details, by being a BlueForger, you will be expected to uphold and exemplify our values of Belonging, Selfless Service, Integrity, Leadership, Respect, and Excellence.

We uphold these values upon a backbone of humility driven by a culture of safety, vulnerability, and purpose.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Strategic Advisory & Enterprise Impact o Serve as principal legal advisor and thought partner to division leaders, program executives, and functional heads on matters of enterprise significance, framing legal issues in terms of mission outcomes, risk appetite, and strategic tradeoffs.

o Act as second-in-command and delegate for the Chief Legal Officer, representing the Office of the CLO in executive forums and providing continuity of legal leadership in the CLO's absence.

o Identify emerging legal, regulatory, and reputational risks across the enterprise; develop forward-looking mitigation strategies and elevate matters of consequence to the CLO and executive leadership with recommended courses of action.

o Design and institutionalize scalable legal frameworks, templates, delegation-of-authority structures, and decision playbooks that increase organizational velocity while preserving compliance discipline.

o Partner with Finance, Contracts, Programs, HR, IT/Security, and Communications to embed legal conside...