Corporate Governance Counsel

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm's 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.
We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives and ETFs.
Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.
Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends-more than $1.8 billion - to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute's work of uncovering the causes, treatments and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
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The Corporate Governance Counsel is a member of the American Century Investments Legal Department. The primary responsibility of the Corporate Governance Counsel is to support fund and Corporate Governance activities of the registered investment companies that are the issuers of the American Century Investments funds and the three boards of directors/trustees that oversee them.
The ideal candidate would have a law degree from an accredited law school, bar membership in good standing, and relevant law firm or corporate legal experience.
Relevant Activities

• Assist with scheduling, coordination, and execution of board meetings and interim communications with directors, counsel, and other constituencies.
• Assist with the production and electronic posting of meeting materials for three boards of directors overseeing the American Century mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.
• Assist with preparation of board minutes and management/maintenance of corporate/trust records (minute books, etc.).
• Assist with regulatory analysis, monitoring, and planning related to fund and board activities (including without limitation maintenance of board governance calendars and implementation of regulatory changes).
• Assist with record retention activities and preservation of board, committee, and investment company entity required records, and support the corporate document retention and other applicable compliance policies.
• Assist with detailed documentation of fund governance and board team process and procedures.
• Coordinate and prepare response to annual ICI/IDC Directors Practices Study.
• Assist with other Legal Department projects and conduct legal research as needed.
• Develop and expand knowledge of legal requirements relating to American Century Investment's business and the investment management industry.

Desired Skills, Education, and Experience

• Juris doctor degree from an accredited law school, bar membership in good standing, and relevant law firm or corporate legal experience.
• Knowledge of the Securities Act of 1933, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Investment Company Act of 1940 preferred.
• Knowledge and experience with state corporation and statutory trust law preferred.
• Experience coordinating and producing written materials.
• Excellent language skills, including writing, grammar, and usage. Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing, to legal and non-legal audiences. Ability to create informative and visually pleasing meeting materials.
• Experience taking and producing corporate meeting minutes.
• Experience with production of legal documents and compliance with applicable legal requirements.
• Highly motivated self-starter with the ability to work under pressure, work after hours when needed, meet deadlines, determine priorities, plan, organize, and follow through with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
• Attention to detail and excellent project management/organizational skills.
• Professional attitude and demeanor and ability to appropriately interact with senior executives, board members, board counsel, and individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams required. Experience with BoardVantage and Webex a plus.
• Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.

Additional Requirements:
Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.
As a global firm with offices in several cities, we will uphold any local regulations regarding COVID-19 precautions and/or vaccination requirements for the workplace.
American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
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