# Employment Counsel

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Legal
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Employment Law, California Employment Law, Wage And Hour, Paga, Global Employment Law, AI, Project Management, Hr Compliance, Litigation Management, Legal Audits
**Posted:** 2026-04-28

> Provides legal counsel on employment matters including terminations, compliance, litigation, and HR policies for a global workforce. Partners with HR and business teams, leveraging AI for scalable operations; requires 4+ years in employment law with California expertise.

## Job Description

## What you will do
- Advise on a broad range of employment law matters, including **terminations, accommodations, recruiting, employee relations, compensation and benefits, wage and hour, and workplace investigations**.
- Partner with our human resources and talent teams to develop scalable, forward-looking employment policies, programs, and training.
- Leverage **AI** to streamline and scale HR and legal operations, while ensuring our use of AI remains legally sound and compliant.
- Manage employment litigation matters across all stages with external counsel from pre-litigation (demand letters, agency charges) through formal proceedings (**arbitrations, civil litigation**).
- Design and drive internal HR audits (**documentation, classification/wage and hour, I-9s**, etc.).
- Partner with outside counsel on global employment matters to shape internal global employment and HR compliance at Rippling (**employment agreements, policies, day-to-day operations, performance management, terminations**).
- Monitor and self-study on regulatory developments relevant to the HR industry and drive compliance on new employment laws.
- Assist with Rippling's general corporate legal activities, including **ethics, litigation and risk management**, and more.

## What you will need
- **4+ years** of experience directly related to this role, including at a law firm, in-house, and/or other relevant roles.
- Solid grounding in **employment law** with experience advising on major federal and **California employment laws**. Bonus points for **wage and hour experience** (particularly **California/PAGA**) and/or **global employment law** expertise.
- Entrepreneurial mindset (flexible, self-starting and hard-working) in generating new and innovative solutions to build out the Legal & Compliance program.
- Tech-forward mindset with hands-on experience using **AI**, or a strong interest in doing so — you're excited about using technology to scale your impact and are thoughtful about the compliance and risk considerations that come with AI in employment law.
- Demonstrated solution-oriented business and legal judgment.
- Strong **project management** and organizational skills.
- Excellent communicator both internally and externally, with the ability to break down complex legal jargon into easy-to-understand and practical advice.
- Sense of humor.
- **Law degree** (e.g. **JD** or equivalent).

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