Employment Counsel

About the role

Polymarket is looking for an Employment Counsel to sit inside Legal and Compliance, working day-to-day alongside our Chief People Person on the full spectrum of employment matters across a growing, global workforce. You'll own your domain and be expected to resolve issues without routing everything upward. The mandate is straightforward: keep the company's employment practices clean, well-documented, and legally sound as we scale.

What You'll Do

• Draft and review offer letters, contractor agreements, and advisor arrangements, ensuring every document is accurate, consistent, and legally sound
• Field daily employment questions from the People team directly without unnecessary escalation
• Manage active employee complaints and performance-related documentation from intake through resolution, keeping appropriate records and advising on risk at each step
• Partner with the Chief People Person on employee relations issues, acting as a legal advisor and thought partner
• Track and respond to employment litigation and agency charges, including coordinating with outside counsel and owning the company's position throughout
• Build and maintain core employment documents — offer templates, severance frameworks, and policy materials — starting from scratch where necessary
• Proactively identify the company's employment risks and drive issues to resolution

What We're Looking For

• JD with active bar membership in good standing
• 5+ years of employment law experience, either in-house or at a firm with direct client counseling work
• Prior experience working directly with an HR or People team on a daily basis, not just occasional legal reviews
• Hands-on employment litigation and agency charge management experience, including EEOC, state equivalents, and civil litigation
• Demonstrated ability to independently handle classification questions, employee relations issues, and termination decisions without senior counsel weighing in on every matter
• Experience building or overhauling core employment documents from the ground up — handbooks, offer letter templates, severance frameworks
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where the processes you build will often be the first version that exists

Plus

• Experience working at a crypto, fintech, or similarly regulated company
• Experience building employment policies at a high-growth startup where headcount and complexity were growing simultaneously

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
• 401k match
• Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories