Lead Counsel, HR Products

rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a highly motivated Lead Counsel, HR Products to partner with Product, Sales and Compliance. You will guide employment and wage-hour strategy for EOR services across jurisdictions and advise HR product teams on related risk and compliance.

Based in San Francisco, you will help shape a world-class product counsel function, draft employment agreements, templates, and policies, and drive scalable, pragmatic legal solutions across our HR, IT, and Finance platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in-house or at a law firm.
• Substantive knowledge of and experience with employment law, including strong California wage and hour expertise.
• Law degree (e.g. JD or equivalent).
• Experience with PEOs or EORs (preferred).
• Entrepreneurial mindset, solution-oriented ethos, and ready to roll up your sleeves.
• Passion for efficient processes.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Excellent drafting and written and verbal communication skills with the ability to break down complex legal jargon into easy-to-understand and practical advice.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Sense of humor

Responsibilities

• Provide employment counsel to our EOR HR Advisor teams.
• Provide product counseling to our Time and Payroll teams, with a focus on wage and hour compliance.
• Analyze and provide product counseling on employment rules and regulations and how to compliantly hire and offboard employees through an EOR in different jurisdictions.
• Prepare employment agreement templates, termination notice and agreement templates, and policy documents for our EOR.
• Partner with our Product, Operations, Business Development, Sales, and Client Services teams to build and manage Rippling's product counseling function.
• Navigate complex regulatory frameworks in the U.S. and abroad to create scalable and innovative solutions for our products and services.
• Drive the compliance culture at Rippling and embed integrity and compliance in all of our operations as our company grows.
• Advise and assist with Rippling's general legal needs as they arise.

Skills

employment law

California wage and hour

drafting

project management

communication

analytical

problem solving

humor

Education

J.D. or equivalent

Job description

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365 - within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world's top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock, and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly-motivated, business-minded attorney to join as Lead Counsel, HR Products on the Legal & Compliance team. In this role, you will partner closely with Product, Sales, and Compliance, and will report to our Assistant General Counsel, HR Products. You will provide key legal guidance to our business team as we launch our Employer of Record ("EOR") services in new countries, and will provide ongoing product counseling and employment counseling across our launched EOR countries. You will also serve as wage and hour product counsel to our HR product teams more broadly, including the Payroll and Time products. You are a self-starter and are excited to learn about new jurisdictions and new areas of law. You are a strategic thinker and want to build a world-class, highly efficient product counsel function at a rapidly growing company. You have a passion for providing creative, proactive, and pragmatic legal guidance.

What you will do

• Provide employment counsel to our EOR HR Advisor teams.
• Provide product counseling to our Time and Payroll teams, with a focus on wage and hour compliance.
• Analyze and provide product counseling on employment rules and regulations and how to compliantly hire and offboard employees through an EOR in different jurisdictions.
• Prepare employment agreement templates, termination notice and agreement templates, and policy documents for our EOR.
• Partner with our Product, Operations, Business Development, Sales, and Client Services teams to build and manage Rippling's product counseling function.
• Navigate complex regulatory frameworks in the U.S. and abroad to create scalable and innovative solutions for our products and services.
• Drive the compliance culture at Rippling and embed integrity and compliance in all of our operations as our company grows.
• Advise and assist with Rippling's general legal needs as they arise.

What you will need

• 5+ years of experience in-house or at a law firm.
• Substantive knowledge of and experience with employment law, including strong California wage and hour expertise.
• Substantive knowledge of and experience with employment law.
• Law degree (e.g. JD or equivalent).
• Experience with PEOs or EORs (preferred).
• Entrepreneurial mindset, solution-oriented ethos, and ready to roll up your sleeves.
• Passion for efficient processes.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Excellent drafting and written and verbal communication skills with the ability to break down complex legal jargon into easy-to-understand and practical advice.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Sense of humor

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on