Assistant General Counsel – Employment

Job Description

Responsibilities 

The Assistant General Counsel will:

• Be an integral part of an in-house legal team in a technology and mineral exploration company growing rapidly around the world
• Provide leverage and support to the CLO and DGC so that they are more effective at advancing the company’s priorities
• Develop major parts of the company’s legal function with a particular focus on employment law, global workforce matters, employment-related compliance, and litigation
• Advise on employment matters across multiple jurisdictions, including the U.S., Australia, Canada, the UK, Europe, Africa, and other regions where the company operates
• Draft, review, and negotiate employment agreements, consulting agreements, separation agreements, CIIAAs, offer letters, secondment arrangements, and other workforce-related documents
• Develop, maintain, and improve employee handbooks, policies, procedures, trainings, and internal guidance for a rapidly growing global company
• Advise on employment laws and practices affecting a mobile, international workforce, including hiring, terminations, discipline, accommodations, leaves of absence, wage and hour, workplace safety, anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, retaliation, remote work, and cross-border employment issues
• Partner with HR, talent acquisition, finance, tax, equity administration, and immigration counsel or mobility specialists on legal aspects of workforce mobility
• Support employee equity matters, including in the context of grants, option exercises, terminations, mobility, tax coordination
• Support public-company readiness and public-company employment matters, such as compensation governance, executive employment arrangements, employment-related disclosure, and CD&A support
• Act as primary point of contact in legal department for and manage disputes, threatened claims, litigation, arbitration, mediation, agency charges, and settlement negotiations (employee-related and otherwise)
• Represent the company in dealings with government agencies on employee matters
• Lead and advise on internal employee-related investigations
• Advise on employee benefits matters in the U.S. and abroad, including 401(k), pension, leave, health, retirement, and similar benefit programs
• Take part in discussions on labor relations and union-related issues where they arise, including works councils, collective consultation, union engagement, and labor-law issues in non-U.S. jurisdictions
• Create processes and policies to help build a high-functioning legal department and scalable global employment function 
• Hire and supervise outside counsel across many subject areas and jurisdictions
• Have many opportunities to be involved in other areas as the company and its legal functions grow, including intellectual property, data, AI, privacy, broader compliance, and corporate matters
• Work on whatever needs to be done

Qualifications

The candidate must have:

• 11-15 years of experience, with a minimum of 4 years at a top law firm as an employment and/or executive compensation and benefits associate, followed by time working in-house advising business and HR clients directly 
• Strong desire and ability to provide leverage, support, and partnership to the CLO and DGC
• Significant experience dealing with workforce employed all over the world, preferably including Australia, Canada, the UK, Europe, and/or Africa
• Substantial experience drafting, negotiating, and advising on employment-related agreements
• Strong working knowledge of employment laws and practical HR counseling, including hiring, terminations, discipline, wage and hour, leaves, accommodations, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, workplace safety, remote work, and cross-border employment issues
• Experience with highly mobile workforce (involving substantial international travel, cross-border assignments and relocations) to be able to support internal immigration counsel and mobility specialists
• Public-company or IPO-readiness experience on employment matters (for example, experience with executive compensation disclosure or CD&A support)
• Litigation and investigations experience with employee-related disputes
• Experience dealing with government agencies on employee matters
• Experience with employee benefits matters, including 401(k), pension, retirement, health, leave, or similar benefit programs (non-U.S. pension or benefits experience is a strong plus)
• Experience with learning many different foreign legal systems and business environments
• Interest in working in a company that requires high levels of collaboration and communication among teammates working remotely across many time zones and continents 
• Interest in working in a science-based company where most colleagues are scientists and science is the focus of many company meetings and documents
• Strong ability to learn new tools and an optimistic attitude toward work, people, and solving difficult problems of first instance

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