Lead Counsel, Employment

Come join our legal team to work on the most exciting legal, policy, and operational issues at the leading edge of AI. We're seeking a strong product lawyer with deep labor and employment law expertise. As product counsel, you will advise on all legal aspects of product development, launch, and operations - including regulatory compliance, user terms, privacy, and risk management - while bringing specialized employment law expertise.

You will serve as product and employment counsel for teams building human-in-the-loop systems and global contributor networks, while also providing comprehensive employment law counsel across the organization.

The ideal candidate will have deep labor and employment law expertise, a technology background, and a demonstrable history of providing practical product counsel to solve complex, time-sensitive problems in close partnership with cross-functional teams. This role reports to the Associate General Counsel for Product and Employment.

You will:

• Strategic Product Advice: Lead labor law strategy for product development, embedding worker classification and global labor law compliance into Scale's products and processes by design, while also advising on related product and regulatory matters in collaboration with the broader legal team.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, People, Communications, Marketing, and Finance to mitigate labor law and regulatory issues in tasking platforms and contributor workforce management.
• Employment Counsel: Advise on domestic and international employment law including recruitment, employee relations, performance management, investigations, leaves, compensation, benefits, restrictive covenants, privacy, and immigration.
• Risk Mitigation: Identify evolving workforce challenges, provide proactive solutions, and partner with litigators to calibrate risk and improve processes while meeting business needs.
• Agreements: Draft, review, and negotiate employment agreements, offer letters, confidentiality agreements, arbitration agreements, settlement agreements, and compensation plans globally.
• Training: Develop and deliver labor and employment law training to enhance Scale's compliance culture.
• Litigation Support: Lead pre-litigation matters including demand letters and dispute resolution, and support litigation counsel with discovery coordination and outside counsel management.

Ideally you'd have:

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in labor and employment law at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house legal department (ideally product counseling within a high-growth technology company). Experience advising on broader product, privacy, or regulatory matters is a plus.
• Education: JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred) in good standing.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to think strategically at a high level and from deep in the details to drive complex problem-solving and develop creative, business-forward solutions.
• Risk Calibration: Ability to calibrate risk, distinguish business from legal risk, and communicate it clearly to executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Collaboration: Roll-up-your-sleeves attitude to tackle projects large and small with a low-ego, collaborative approach across the organization.
• Technical Fluency: Deep interest in artificial intelligence, generative AI, and machine learning technology, with the ability to engage effectively with technical teams.
• Agility and Organization: Ability to think quickly and manage evolving priorities in a fast-paced environment with excellent organizational and communication skills.