Description:

The Opportunity:
As we grow our capacity to transform the caregiver experience, our teams are also growing. Abby Care is a rapidly scaling healthcare company with a nationwide workforce, including a large and growing population of hourly, non-exempt home health caregivers delivering services in patients' homes alongside a corporate workforce. We are building something impactful: and we need a senior employment lawyer to help us do it right.

This role is a true opportunity to build a robust legal framework for employment law. There is no inherited infrastructure to manage, no established playbook to follow. You will be the architect, designing and building the employment law function from the ground up, serving as the General Counsel's primary partner on every workforce matter the company faces.

If you are motivated by the combination of sophisticated legal work, executive partnership, and the chance to build something that scales with a mission-driven company, we would love to hear from you!

Why This Role Is Different:

Architect: Build the employment law function from the ground up with real ownership and authority.
Executive partnership: Direct access to and collaboration with the General Counsel, Head of People, and leadership across the company.
National scope: Spearhead workforce strategy and compliance for a large, multi-state organization.
Complexity and variety: A workforce that spans hourly caregivers in the field, remote corporate employees, and everything in between.
Career growth: Gain operational leadership experience that is rarely available given the growth trajectory of the company.
Mission-driven impact: Your work directly enables the company to support caregivers and improve patient care.

What you will work on:

Serve as the Company's Primary Employment Law Advisor

Counsel People team, executives and functional leadership on employee relations, performance management, discipline, terminations, leaves of absence, accommodations, and sensitive personnel matters.
Provide real-time, practical guidance on complex employment situations.
Balance legal risk with operational realities in a fast-moving, complex environment.
Advise executive leadership on workforce strategy, organizational change, and risk mitigation.

Build the Employment Law Infrastructure

Design and implement scalable frameworks for managing employee relations, investigations, discipline, and separations.
Create policies, handbooks, playbooks, templates, and decision trees for HR and managers.
Develop a proactive, multi-state compliance strategy for a distributed and growing workforce.
Establish consistent processes that reduce reactive firefighting and enable the company to scale responsibly.

Lead Wage-and-Hour and Multi-State Compliance

Advise on classification, overtime, scheduling, and all wage-and-hour issues affecting non-exempt and home-based employees.
Navigate multi-state employment law complexity and support expansion into new jurisdictions.
Monitor evolving federal, state, and local employment laws and translate them into actionable guidance.

Manage Investigations and Disputes

Conduct and oversee significant workplace investigations and sensitive matters.
Manage employment litigation strategy and coordinate with outside counsel efficiently.
Handle administrative agency charges, demand letters, and pre-litigation disputes.

Drive Training and Culture

Design and deliver training programs for managers and People team.
Partner with People team and leadership to embed a legally compliant, people-centered workplace culture.
Support reorganizations, acquisitions, and new business initiatives.

What you'll have:

5+ years of employment law experience.
Combination of law firm and in-house experience strongly preferred; exceptional law firm candidates without in-house experience will be considered.
Demonstrated experience advising business leaders or sophisticated clients on complex employment matters.
Experience supporting hourly, distributed, or field-based workforces is highly valued.
Healthcare or other regulated industry experience is a strong plus.
Multi-state employment law experience required.
Deep knowledge of federal employment laws and multi-state compliance.
Strong wage-and-hour expertise, particularly for non-exempt and home-based employees.
Experience managing employment litigation, agency charges, and workplace investigations.
Familiarity with HR operations, workforce policy, and employment-related transactional work.

Success Profile:

Builder mentality: Genuinely excited to create systems and infrastructure from scratch.
Business-oriented and pragmatic: Solutions-focused, not just risk-focused.
Adaptable: Comfortable with ambiguity, limited resources, and rapid organizational growth and change.
Organized: Strong project management skills and ability to prioritize across competing demands.
High emotional intelligence: Strong interpersonal judgment and discretion.
Low ego, high ownership: Willing to roll up sleeves and operate at every level.

What Success Looks Like:
Within the first year, you will have:

Established consistent, scalable processes for handling employee issues across the organization.
Materially reduced reactive firefighting by building proactive compliance systems.
Earned trusted advisor status with the People team, executive leadership, and the General Counsel.
Positioned the company to continue scaling its workforce compliantly and confidently across many states through expansion activities.
Demonstrated judgment, speed, and ownership that makes you an indispensable partner.