Employment Counsel

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice-to-Haves

• 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.

Compensation and Benefits

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