The Employment Counsel will be the primary legal advisor on all employment matters for a dynamic, global company, providing strategic guidance to the People Team, executive management, and various departments globally, with a concentration in the US and Israel. This role is responsible for overseeing the legal aspects of employment, including drafting agreements, developing policies, managing pre-litigation strategy, and advising on critical employment decisions to mitigate risk. The mission is to promote legal compliance and best practices across a geographically dispersed workforce.
Responsibilities- Provide direct, day-to-day legal counsel on a wide range of employment matters, including hiring, performance management, accommodations, leaves, and terminations across multiple jurisdictions (US and globally).
- Manage and oversee all employment litigation and agency complaints, encompassing strategy development, outside counsel coordination, case management, and executive reporting.
- Draft, review, and update essential employment documentation, including Offer Letters, Proprietary Information and Inventions Assignment Agreements (PIIAAs), policies, and employee handbooks.
- Advise and collaborate with Human Resources and management on employee relations issues and workplace investigations, providing specific risk assessments and legal recommendations.
- 5+ years of full-time legal experience as an employment attorney, gained either in a law firm or an in-house legal department.
- JD (or equivalent degree) and current admission to the Bar in at least one United States jurisdiction.
- Documented experience in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating employment-related agreements (e.g., Offer letters, Separation Agreements, Consulting Agreements).
- Demonstrated experience counseling executive leadership and organizational stakeholders on critical employment-related decisions.
- Experience with employment laws specific to Israel, Portugal or the UK.
- Experience with compensation and benefits matters, including drafting or advising on commission plans and equity incentive plans.
- Experience supporting corporate transactions from a labor and employment perspective.
- Prior experience working with high-growth startup companies, either in-house or externally.
- Specific experience with US relocations and immigration-related matters.
- Documented experience managing employment-related investigations and/or litigation.
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Axonius is committed to fair and equitable compensation packages. A candidate’s salary will be based on qualifications and relevant experience. In addition to a competitive salary, our packages include stock options, attractive benefits, and an annual bonus.
About Axonius:
Axonius transforms cyber asset intelligence into actionability. With the Axonius Asset Cloud, customers preemptively tackle high-risk and hard-to-spot threat exposures, misconfigurations, and overspending. The integrated platform brings together data from every system in an organization’s IT infrastructure to optimize mission-critical risk, performance, and cost measures via actionable intelligence.
Covering cyber assets, software, SaaS applications, identities, vulnerabilities, infrastructure, and more, Axonius is the one place to go for Security, IT, and GRC teams to continuously drive actionability across the organization. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius supports millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world.
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