Director of Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Legal Counsel

Your responsibilities

• Provide practical legal counsel to Human Resources and interface with outside counsel with regard to day-to-day issues, including: Stock plan, voluntary deferred compensation plan, employee stock purchase plans, and carried interest plans.
• Required public company disclosure issues.
• 401(k) plan (including fiduciary guidance to its retirement committee, investment, and administrative subcommittees); health savings accounts and health and welfare programs.
• Development and updates of policies, plan documentation, and communications relating to compensation and employee health and welfare plans and programs and related initiatives.
• Support in respect of vendor agreements and client RFP process.
• Negotiation and documentation of employment, retention, and separation agreements and restrictive covenants of varying complexity.
• Provide legal counsel and support with HR-related elements of strategic transactions/acquisitions, including: Due diligence, especially with regard to employee benefits, compensation plans, and other qualified and non-qualified plan issues.
• Negotiation/drafting of employment-related reps and covenants in M&A deals.
• Interface with outside M&A and employment counsel on M&A transactions.
• Pre/post-close implementation.
• Develop, revise, and implement related policies and training solutions and stay atop industry developments to help the firm be best in class.

Required qualifications

• A minimum of 8+ years' experience in executive compensation and employee benefits subject areas.
• Preference given to experience in the financial services industry (including private equity/private markets) and executive compensation experience with a public company.
• Some Subject Matter experience in risk mitigation related to key employee life-cycle events (hiring, retention, and terminations) and corporate transactions.
• Major law firm experience preferred.
• JD degree and member of the New York bar.