Employment Law Counsel (AI)

Location: Hybrid in the Hudson Yards, New York City office 3 days per week, with 2 days working from home; must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Salary: $152,290–$250,195 base pay annually, with potential eligibility for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.

Company

hirify.global is building a best-in-class Law Department supporting colleagues, consumers, communities, and enterprise business priorities.

What you will do

• Partner with the Head of Employment Law to develop enterprise-wide legal strategy and advise Human Resources, business leaders, and senior leaders on complex employment matters.
• Lead responses to EEOC, DOL, state, and local administrative agency investigations and proceedings.
• Manage employment and labor litigation and arbitration, including strategy, pleadings, factual development, outside counsel, and key-stage recommendations.
• Advise on terminations, separation agreements, restructurings, reductions in force, WARN Act requirements, pay equity, worker classification, policies, investigations, and compliance.
• Counsel on workforce transformation involving automation and AI, including role redesign, redeployment, automated decision tools, bias audits, candidate notice, and transparency requirements such as NYC Local Law 144.
• Conduct legal research, develop opinions, support transactions and due diligence, anticipate legislative developments, and deliver employment-law training.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree with active bar admission.
• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience practicing employment law in a large law firm or in-house legal department. Labor-law experience is not required.
• Significant experience handling administrative matters and single-plaintiff litigation or arbitration.
• Strong oral and written communication, organizational, analytical, negotiation, and business-acumen skills, including experience structuring separation agreements, settlements, and resolutions.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with strong self-direction, judgment, initiative, and proactive risk management.
• Desktop-computer proficiency, including MS Office Suite, Westlaw, and Harvey.
• Demonstrated AI literacy, including use of AI-enabled legal tools such as Harvey for research and drafting, with the ability to critically evaluate and verify AI-generated output against primary sources.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice to have

• NYS bar admission or eligibility for admission under the NYS in-house counsel admission program.
• Familiarity with ERISA-governed compensation and benefit plans, including plan-language drafting and ERISA litigation.
• Experience defending employment class and collective actions.
• Comfort working with workforce data and analytics, including pay equity, worker classification, and adverse-impact analyses.

Culture & Benefits

• High-performance, inclusive, ethical, and collaborative legal, compliance, and government-affairs environment.
• Opportunities for skill-building, leadership development, community-building, and philanthropic involvement.
• Contemporary, supportive, flexible benefits and well-being resources for eligible full-time employees.
• Emphasis on interpersonal effectiveness, business savvy, technical excellence, client service, collaboration, and continuous leadership development.