Chief Legal Officer

<p>The Chief Legal Officer (CLO) is a senior executive leader responsible for overseeing all legal, regulatory, and compliance matters at STR. The CLO reports to the CEO and is pivotal in safeguarding STR’s legal interests, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and providing strategic legal counsel to senior leadership and the Board of Directors. The CLO works as a strategic business partner integrating legal considerations into STR's overall strategic planning and decision-making processes.&nbsp; This role combines deep legal expertise with sound business judgment to enable innovation, growth, and mission success.</p> <p><strong>Duties of the position include:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Strategic Legal Leadership:</strong> Serve as principal legal advisor to the CEO, executive leadership, and the Board of Directors on corporate governance, regulatory compliance, risk management, and major corporate transactions. Ensure enterprise legal considerations are integrated into STR’s strategic planning and decision-making.</li> <li><strong>Securities, Disclosure, and Public Company Readiness</strong>: Lead legal support for IPO readiness and public-company compliance, including securities-law matters, S-1 registration statement preparation, SEC comment process, public-company disclosure controls, periodic and current reporting, Regulation FD, insider trading, Section 16, Rule 144, Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, lock-up arrangements, stockholder communications, annual meeting and proxy matters, and coordination with outside securities counsel, underwriters’ counsel, auditors, and other advisors.</li> <li><strong>Government Contracts:</strong> Oversee legal aspects of all federal government contracting and related regulatory requirements (FAR, DFARS, CAS, other transactions, etc.). Support the Contracts organization with legal oversight of proposal development, contract negotiation, administration, dispute resolution, investigations, claims, and bid protests. Act as escalation point for significant, novel, or high-risk contract issues in accordance with STR’s Delegation of Authority. Train internal stakeholders on legal risks and evolving requirements on government contract law.</li> <li><strong>Commercial Law:&nbsp;</strong>Provide counsel on commercial transactions, UCC, risk management, and dispute resolution.</li> <li><strong>Corporate Governance:</strong> Lead legal support for the Board of Directors and its committees, including Board and committee governance processes, charters, corporate governance guidelines, Board and committee materials, minutes, and resolutions, director onboarding, Board evaluations, stockholder approvals, and public-company governance best practices.</li> <li><strong>Related-Person Transactions and Conflicts Governance:<