Managing Counsel, Employment Legal (US)

Location: hirify.global; AMER preferred. The role requires a US-qualified lawyer.

Annual salary range: $66,300–$186,400.

Company

hirify.global builds infrastructure for global payroll and employment across more than 90 jurisdictions in the HR-tech space.

What you will do

• Provide strategic employment-law advice across multiple jurisdictions for internal and external employees.
• Lead complex advisory and contentious matters across the employee lifecycle.
• Identify company-wide legal issues and implement scalable solutions with Legal, People, Operations, Product, and other stakeholders.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives and establish governance frameworks and best practices.
• Build subject-matter expertise, team knowledge standards, and reusable legal resources.
• Manage external local counsel and oversee complex employment projects across jurisdictions.

Requirements

• US-qualified lawyer; mandatory.
• Senior employment legal-counsel experience with a strong record handling advisory and contentious matters across the employee lifecycle.
• Ability to independently lead complex internal and external employee matters.
• Experience advising across multiple jurisdictions.
• Good understanding of and experience with technology and HR-tech products.
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• Technological competence with Slack, CLM tools, Notion, Google Drive, AI tools, Zendesk, or equivalent tools.

Nice to have

• In-house legal experience.
• Experience in a technology or fast-paced startup environment.
• Fluency in multiple languages.
• Experience working hirify.globally.

Culture & Benefits

• Entirely hirify.global, async work with flexible working hours and flexible paid time off.
• Work-life balance, proactive ownership, and flexibility to plan schedules around personal needs.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave and mental health support services.
• Budgets for co-working spaces, learning, wellness, home office, and IT equipment.
• Stock options.
• Inclusive culture with employee resource groups and accommodation support during interviews.

Hiring process

• Recruiter interview, Hiring Manager interview, written exercise, interview with the Senior Director of Employment, Product and Commercial, and Bar Raiser interview.
• Prior employment verification check.
• Submit an English-language application and CV in PDF format, or a LinkedIn profile if an up-to-date CV is unavailable.