Associate General Counsel - Employment

Job Description:
We are looking for a hard-working, competent, and adaptable attorney to support our evolving Pluralsight teams. This position will provide counsel on a broad range of global employment, litigation, and compliance matters, and support the legal team as needed in other substantive areas.
Who you're committed to being:

• Have a positive demeanor and ability to work in a fast-paced, high-output, team oriented, strategic environment
• Demonstrate passion for solving problems and making valuable contributions to the company
• Courteous, highly organized, reliable, proactive, independent thinker
• Committed to personal growth and development such as seeking out and responding to feedback and tackling new substantive areas of the law
• Honest and direct in communications with all business partners and internal customers
• Handle highly confidential information with professionalism and unquestionable integrity
• Strategic partner who can deliver practical, risk-weighted, business-focused legal counsel

What you'll own:

• Partner with and counsel the People Team on the entire employee lifecycle (recruiting and interviewing, immigration, onboarding, performance management, and offboarding), and collaborate on the development of related practices and procedures
• Advise the People and Finance teams on employee benefits, wage and hour, independent contractor, and compensation matters
• Assist with crafting, revising, and implementing employment documents, policies and processes globally
• Assist with employment, litigation, and compliance-related due diligence for transactions, including reviewing employee-related agreements, option award agreements and other documents as needed
• Partner with senior leadership on employee relations matters including workplace investigations, discipline and performance, leaves of absence, accommodations, and workplace safety, as well as development and implementation of policies and procedures
• Assist with pre-litigation and litigation efforts, including research and writing, evidence-gathering, legal hold, discovery, litigation management, and strategy
• Direct the work of outside counsel on an efficient basis
• Support statutory and regulatory compliance in global locations
• Develop initiatives for improving processes, form agreements, playbooks, and service level agreements

Experience you'll need:

• 8+ years of substantive legal experience with a nationally recognized law firm
• JD from ABA-accredited law school and current bar membership in good standing
• Good communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills within and across departments and externally
• Sound judgment; ability to clearly make reasoned recommendations; ability to cross think and determine who should be kept informed
• Self-starter with strong business sense who can navigate different client groups
• Great teammate, savvy at balancing competing projects

Preferred Qualifications:

• In-house experience with a technology company
• Global employment experience
• Experience leading a team of paralegals

Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status.
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