Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel – Lead Legal Counsel – Supply Chain/Commercial Contracts

Reports to: General Counsel / Deputy General Counsel

Capability Area: Legal

Group: Legal, Contracts and Compliance

Level: Senior Director

Location: Temecula, CA or Washington D.C. (Hybrid)

Work arrangement: Hybrid, with 25% travel

Metrea delivers effects‑as‑a‑service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation.

With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect. Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.

• Special Air Missions Group (SAM) – responsible for developing and delivering Metrea’s ISR, Special Mobility, and Aerial Firefighting capabilities. SAM oversees the integration of new mission systems, ensuring operational readiness across specialized aviation operations, managing fleet maintenance, regulatory compliance, and strategic partnerships.
• Digital and Synthetic Capability Unit (D&S) – committed to providing mission‑driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. Leveraging cutting‑edge technologies, we empower operational readiness and elevate situational awareness across diverse domains—air, maritime, and space.
• Air Mobility Group (AIRMOB) – responsible for developing and delivering Metrea’s aerial refueling capabilities, ensuring the readiness and operational effectiveness of the tanker fleet. AIRMOB oversees fleet management, maintenance, and airworthiness, integrating new processes and technologies.
• Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) – responsible for developing flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment. Metrea specializes in signal classification, direction finding, advanced geolocation techniques, waveform development, and special purpose radios for government customers.

Senior Counsel will be based out of either our California office in Temecula or our Washington D.C. office, with expectations of international travel and global enterprise support. The candidate will bring significant experience in aviation supply‑chain contracts, legal risks, negotiation, drafting, and closing a wide variety of vendor and commercial contracts and subcontracts. This new role will build a Supply Chain and Commercial Contracts team, working closely with the Head of Supply Chain to identify legal and contractual risks.

Collaborate with the Supply Chain and Global Logistics team and various Metrea Capability Areas; learn the global enterprise’s work streams; build out a contract team; liaise with banks, lawyers, and governments; support litigation, M&A, and commercial transactions; and provide legal guidance across multiple shifting priorities in a fast‑paced environment.

• Qualified licensed attorney graduated from an ABA‑accredited law school and admitted to practice law in California and/or Washington D.C., in good standing.
• Deep experience negotiating and drafting vendor contracts, supplier terms and conditions, codes of conduct, leases, and creating frameworks for regular negotiation.
• Experience negotiating and drafting consultant agreements and other service‑related agreements.
• Aviation and defense industry experience.
• Litigation assessment and risk analysis for a wide variety of contracts, including negotiation and resolution of claims.
• Experience enforcing contracts across U.S. and foreign jurisdictions…