Senior Lead Counsel, Labor & Employment

🔥 57 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $178.3k - $367k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Pinterest

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

📱 Media

👥 B2C

💰 Post IPO equity on 2022-08

Media • B2C

Pinterest is a visual discovery and bookmarking platform that helps users discover, save, and organize images and ideas (Pins) for interests, projects, and shopping. It provides personalized recommendations and visual search so people can plan and explore topics like home design, fashion, recipes, and events, and it supports commerce features and ads for creators and retailers.

📋 Description

• Serve as a trusted senior advisor to executives, People Team leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders on complex employment matters • Assess complex and ambiguous legal and business risks and provide practical recommendations • Lead development and implementation of employment agreements, policies, guidelines, legal documents, and operating practices • Develop and lead cross-functional employment-law initiatives, compliance programs, policy rollouts, process improvements, and training • Identify emerging risks, set priorities, secure resources, and drive alignment and accountability • Manage employment disputes, litigation, agency investigations, and regulatory matters • Manage outside counsel relationships, budgets, and legal work • Monitor employment-law developments and translate them into guidance, policies, training, and scalable business practices • Identify responsible opportunities to use AI for legal research, risk spotting, workflow efficiency, knowledge management, and service delivery

🎯 Requirements

• JD and active bar admission • Minimum of 10 years of experience handling complex employment matters in a sophisticated law firm or in-house environment • Deep knowledge of U.S. employment law • Experience advising senior business and People leaders on high-impact, complex matters • In-house experience in a fast-paced organization preferred • Exceptional judgment and decision-making skills • Excellent communication and executive-influence skills • Ability to independently lead complex, cross-functional initiatives • Strong experience negotiating and managing employment litigation, agency investigations, regulatory matters, and outside counsel relationships • Ability to evaluate and responsibly apply AI tools to legal work • Impeccable integrity, discretion, and resilience • Commitment to an inclusive environment • California or New York bar admission preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity eligibility • Flexible working model • In-person collaboration approximately 1–3 times per year • Medical or religious accommodations during the application process • Culture and benefits information provided by Pinterest