Senior Counsel, Employment

Nuro•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

As Senior Employment Counsel, you will provide pragmatic day-to-day employment law advice in order to unblock business needs, mitigate risk, and incorporate best employment compliance practices throughout the company. You’ll play a critical role in building and upholding Nuro’s culture and helping prepare Nuro for the challenges and opportunities of launching a commercial product. This role will report directly to the Chief Legal Officer and serve as a key partner to the People team and business leaders, providing the legal, strategic, and operational framework to support an expanding global workforce.

Requirements

7+ years of combined law firm and in-house experience focused on employment law.
Extensive experience in California.
Experience in spaces where law and regulation is ambiguous, unarticulated, or entirely absent.
Ability to identify not just requirements for compliance, but opportunities to lead and define best practices.
Expertise in helping other team leaders deliver on their priorities through practical legal advice.
Fast and precise writing skills, comfortable taking first pen on documents and tailoring writing to audiences.
Technically proficient and comfortable working with modern tools like AI.
Member of the California Bar.

Nice To Haves

Experience scaling a fast-growing company nationally and internationally.
Experience at private and public companies.
Admission in other jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

Provide pragmatic day-to-day employment law advice.
Mitigate risk and incorporate best employment compliance practices.
Support the People team and business leaders with legal, strategic, and operational frameworks for a global workforce.
Own the company’s employment practices and identify opportunities to add value and strengthen day-to-day activities of People and Operations teams.
Advise on best practices and risk mitigation for the entire employee life-cycle (from recruiting to separation).
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure employment policies, practices, and programs are legally sound and best in class.
Maintain employment templates, policies, and training.
Serve as the primary point of contact for employment pre-litigation and litigation matters, including agency charges, discovery, motion practice, witness preparation, settlement negotiations, and trial/arbitration strategies.
Supervise and direct outside counsel support as necessary.
Partner closely with the People and Operations team to assist in scaling Nuro’s non-exempt workforce, including wage and hour compliance, drug testing regulations, and terminations.
Own the employment legal and operation strategy for international growth and mobility issues, including to the EU, Asia, and Canada.
Partner closely on internal investigations and employee relations matters, including processes, policies, and recommendations.
Support and advise on a wide variety of cross-functional areas, including leaves of absences and accommodations, performance management, contingent workers, compensation, privacy, immigration, and export control compliance.