Corporate Counsel - Employment & Litigation (Americas)

TL;DR

Corporate Counsel - Employment & Litigation (Americas): Providing pragmatic employment advice and managing litigation and dispute matters for operations in the Americas with an accent on recruiting, hiring, compensation, and HR policies. Focus on building compliant employment policies and programs for a rapidly growing company and monitoring changes to employment laws.

Location: Hybrid (Menlo Park, CA; McLean, VA; or Atlanta, GA)

Salary: $177K – $232K

Company

hirify.global is powering the era of the agentic enterprise.

What you will do

• Drive and give pragmatic advice for the Americas region on a wide range of employment issues.
• Manage and resolve employment-related disputes, governmental agency actions, and routine employment litigation matters.
• Draft, negotiate, and enforce employment-related agreements, templates, and forms.
• Conduct periodic reviews and audits of employment-related policies and processes to ensure regional compliance.
• Build and implement scalable, compliant employment policies and programs for a rapidly growing company.
• Prepare and deliver training, in coordination with HR, on employment law topics for managers and business leaders.

Requirements

• JD from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
• Minimum of 3 years of legal experience, including substantive labor and employment law and experience managing litigation or disputes.
• Ability to pragmatically weigh legal risks and benefits of complex situations and propose practical solutions.
• Comfortable working in an extremely fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to forge strong relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese is a plus.

Nice to have

• Prior in-house experience with a multinational corporation and law firm experience are preferred.
• A positive attitude and a sense of humor!

Culture & Benefits

• Dynamic and fast-moving environments.
• Experimental mindset.
• Opportunity to redefine the future of how work gets done.
• Expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data.
• Expected to abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties.