Description:
About the role:We are looking for a highly-motivated, business-minded attorney to join as Lead Counsel, Product & Employment on the Legal & Compliance team. In this role, you will partner closely with Product, Sales, and Compliance, and will report to our Assistant General Counsel, Product & Employment. You will provide key legal guidance to our business team as we launch our Employer of Record (“EOR”) services in new countries, and will provide ongoing product guidance and employment counseling across our launched EOR countries. You will also serve as product counsel to our HR Cloud product teams. You are a self-starter and are excited to learn about new jurisdictions and new areas of law. You are a strategic thinker and want to build a world-class, highly efficient product counsel function at a rapidly growing company. You have a passion for providing creative, proactive, and pragmatic legal guidance.
What you will do:
- Provide employment counsel to our EOR HR Advisor team.
- Analyze and advise on employment rules and regulations and how to compliantly hire and offboard employees through an EOR in different jurisdictions.
- Analyze EOR licensing requirements and identify legal requirements for obtaining and maintaining licenses.
- Prepare employment agreement templates, termination notice and agreement templates, and policy documents for our EOR.
- Partner with our Product, Operations, Business Development, Sales, and Client Services teams to build and manage Rippling's product counseling function.
- Navigate complex regulatory frameworks in the U.S. and abroad to create scalable and innovative solutions for our products and services.
- Collaborate cross functionally with our internal teams (Privacy, Product, Operations, and Engineering) on development and documentation of new features and services.
- Drive the compliance culture at Rippling and embed integrity and compliance in all of our operations as our company grows.
- Advise and assist with Rippling's general legal needs as they arise.
What you will need:
- 5+ years of experience in-house or at a law firm.
- Substantive knowledge of and experience with employment law, particularly in LATAM countries or Canada.
- Law degree (e.g. JD or equivalent).
- Entrepreneurial mindset, solution-oriented ethos, and ready to roll up your sleeves.
- Passion for efficient processes.
- Strong project management and organizational skills.
- Excellent drafting and written and verbal communication skills with the ability to break down complex legal jargon into easy-to-understand and practical advice.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Sense of humor.
