# Employment Counsel

**Company:** [Polymarket](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/polymarket)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Legal
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** employment law, jd, bar membership, eeoc, litigation management, Employee Relations, hr policy development, contract drafting, classification questions, termination decisions
**Posted:** 2026-07-22

> Employment Counsel at Polymarket to handle the full spectrum of employment law matters for a growing global workforce. Own daily HR legal questions, build core employment policies and documents from scratch, manage employee relations, complaints, and litigation independently.

## Job Description

## 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.

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