Senior Consultant, Workforce Compliance & Employment Law

Artemis Connection • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Artemis Connection is looking for a senior practitioner whose expertise sits at the intersection of employment law, workforce compliance, and corporate transactions. This is not a generalist role. The work requires someone who has spent real time in the details of how non-employee workforce arrangements are structured, where the legal risk lives, and what it takes to build compliance guidance that gets used.
This consultant will work as a pair with a counterpart focused on transaction strategy. Together, the two will develop a set of practical guidance materials for a large technology organization. Your contribution is the legal and compliance backbone — making sure every piece of guidance reflects what the law actually requires and what enforcement looks like in practice, not just what sounds reasonable.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in employment law and workforce compliance, with a particular focus on the legal treatment of non-employee workers — contractors, agency staff, and others who fall outside traditional employment relationships.
• Hands-on experience with worker classification analysis, including situations where existing classifications are being challenged or where due diligence requires an independent assessment of how workers are labeled versus how they function.
• Working knowledge of statutory workforce transfer protections and how they apply in cross-border transactions, including the ability to identify when those protections are triggered and what they require in practice.
• A track record of developing compliance frameworks and written guidance that are rigorous enough to withstand legal scrutiny but accessible enough for operational teams to follow without specialist support.
• Experience advising organizations on the specific compliance risks that arise when managing non-employee workers during periods of corporate change.
• The ability to work across jurisdictions and recognize where the analysis needs to shift based on local law.

Nice To Haves

• In-house employment law or compliance experience at a large technology company.
• Prior work on workforce due diligence in M&A transactions, either as counsel or as a compliance advisor.
• Familiarity with how automated tools are used for workforce classification assessment and the compliance considerations involved in expanding access to those tools.
• A perspective on how regulatory trends — particularly around gig work, contractor classification, and cross-border employment — are reshaping the way technology companies structure their non-employee workforces.

Responsibilities

• Design the compliance architecture that underpins each piece of guidance produced through the engagement, ensuring that recommendations are legally defensible across the jurisdictions in which they will be applied.
• Build a structured methodology for evaluating how companies classify their workers — particularly in acquisition scenarios where the buyer inherits workforce arrangements they did not set up and may not have scrutinized.
• Develop compliance guidance specific to transactions involving pre-existing commercial relationships between buyer and target, where the workforce involved sits in an especially ambiguous legal position.
• Address the legal dimensions of deferred workforce integration — situations where an acquirer is functionally responsible for a group of workers before the formal employment or contracting relationship has been established.
• Integrate the requirements of workforce transfer law across relevant jurisdictions, including markets where statutory protections for transferring workers impose significant obligations on the acquiring party.
• Provide compliance input into a workstream examining how internal classification tools might be responsibly extended to users outside the organization.
• Review all guidance materials produced through the engagement for legal accuracy, practical applicability, and jurisdictional completeness.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed