Assistant General Counsel - Labor & Employment

The role

This person will serve as a senior member of the Labor and Employment legal team. They will advise on worker classification, employee separations, executive compensation, and risk mitigation for trade secret matters. The role also involves supporting M&A due diligence and developing global L&E practices.

What you will do

• Share day-to-day workload with the Global Head of L&E and the broader team
• Develop L&E practices for a growing global workforce
• Advise on worker classification, employee separations, executive compensation, and wage-and-hour matters
• Advise on risk mitigation for trade secret matters and restrictive covenants
• Support employment and labor due diligence for M&A transactions
• Advise on expanding global footprint including EOR and direct employment decisions
• Craft policies and procedures and deliver manager and employee training
• Advise on data privacy issues affecting employees and candidates
• Support global workplace investigations and employee relations matters
• Manage outside counsel and coordinate with litigation counsel

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of legal experience advising in the US and other jurisdictions on Employment, Labor, and Executive Compensation issues
• In-house and law-firm experience working with companies in high-growth scaling and mature, large-enterprise environments
• Broad international Labor and Employment background - law and drafting
• Flexibility to work hours that overlap with PX team members and Asia-Pacific colleagues
• Experience with due diligence and related ramifications when making acquisitions
• Experience with compensation plans and with data privacy issues affecting employees and candidates
• Active license to practice law in at least one US State, or eligibility to practice as registered in-house counsel
• Hands-on proficiency using generative AI tools in day-to-day legal work

Nice to have

• Interest in the crypto industry
• Experience in fintech, crypto, or other regulated financial services industries
• Experience in Asian and/or Latin American employment markets

Before you apply

• Applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance or graduation
• May ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments

About the company

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. It has spent 15 years building financial infrastructure platforms to advance an open, global financial system.