Lead Counsel, HR Products

About the role

We are looking for a highly-motivated, business-minded attorney to join as Lead Counsel, HR Products 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, HR Products.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy AI-powered tools to automate legal workflows, scale the team's output, and enable self-service resources for Legal's cross-functional partners.
• Provide employment counsel to our EOR HR and PEO Advisor teams.
• Provide product counseling to our Time and Payroll teams, with a focus on wage and hour compliance.
• Analyze and provide product counseling on employment rules and regulations and how to compliantly hire and offboard employees through an EOR in different jurisdictions.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in-house or at a law firm.
• Substantive knowledge of and experience with employment law.
• Law degree (e.g. JD or equivalent).

Qualifications

• Entrepreneurial mindset, solution-oriented ethos, and ready to roll up your sleeves.
• Passion for efficient processes.
• Comfort experimenting with and building on top of AI tools.
• 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.

Skills

• Experience with AI tools.
• Knowledge of employment laws and regulations.
• Ability to provide practical legal guidance.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.

Benefits

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

Pay

The pay range for this role is: 177,000 - 295,000 USD per year (US), 135,000 - 225,000 CAD per year (CA).