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Airtable Legal strives to provide proactive, realistic, and strategic advice that drives maximum business impact and reflects Airtable’s integrity, creativity, and courage.

This Corporate Counsel position presents a unique opportunity to be a part of our founding and fast-growing legal team! We are looking to add a superstar to be our first dedicated employment lawyer who will help ensure that our workplace remains safe, our employment practices remain fair and compliant, and our workforce remains engaged.

What You'll Do

• Provide advice and counsel to management and HR professionals on a broad range of domestic and foreign employment law issues, including issues relating to: recruitment and hiring, employee relations, performance management, internal investigations, leaves of absence, compensation and benefits, restrictive covenants such as non-compete agreements, wage-and-hour compliance, employee privacy, and immigration
• Stay up to date on changes to applicable employment laws and regulations, and audit and update policies and practices to ensure compliance
• Manage outside counsel as needed to address ongoing employment and immigration matters
• Draft or revise employment-related document templates, and negotiate employment-related agreements, such as offer letters, confidentiality agreements, arbitration agreements, and settlement agreements
• Create and deliver trainings on employment-related issues to educate employees and enhance Airtable’s culture of compliance
• Work alongside HR to manage and advise on investigations and respond to employment-related claims and complaints
• Create and execute on employment-related philosophies and strategies that optimize for Airtable’s business objectives and increase legal compliance
• Help build and maintain process wikis, self-service resources, and other tools to help scale the legal function
• Participate in projects to increase the efficiency of employment law support
• Collaborate with teams across Airtable

Who you are

• You have a JD or foreign equivalent with membership in at least one state bar
• You have at least 6 years’ experience as a practicing employment attorney, including in-house experience (ideally with a growth-stage SaaS or other technology company)
• You love being an employment lawyer and have extensive experience with the full range of employment law issues in a variety of contexts
• You’re able to draft documents, policies, emails, and anything else in a precise and digestible manner
• You’re flexible, resourceful, and solution-oriented. You are excited to help a growing company define its legal identity, to build process and repeatability where there is none; you’re both comfortable saying you don’t have the answer, and confident that you can then go find it
• You possess organizational and project management skills, and are able to execute, prioritize, and stay focused in an environment that is expanding and evolving
• You have high integrity and excellent judgment, are a clear and thoughtful communicator, and are able to be both strategic and detail-oriented
• You’re skilled at building authentic relationships with all kinds of people across many functional teams

What we offer

• Health care: we have you 100% covered (and your dependents 65% covered) with competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance. You’ll also be eligible for a complimentary membership to One Medical Group.
• High Deductible Health Plan w/ Health Spend Account contribution
• Learning & Development: we offer a $2,000 per year stipend for your personal career development
• $250 monthly wellness stipend for you to use to invest in your overall wellness
• Mental Health Support
• Family Planning Support (fertility, adoption, surrogacy)
• Meals and Snacks: our offices are empty these days, but when we’re back we’ll continue to have high-quality catered lunches and well-stocked kitchens
• Generous PTO, sick leave, and parental leave

About Airtable

Airtable is working on the next computer revolution: one where anyone – even without technical training – can create customized applications that fit their needs, build more interconnected teams, and take part in a growing community of people who share what they create. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, Airtable powers teams at more than 200,000 organizations around the world. Our recent Series D funding round, which included Thrive Capital, Coatue, and Benchmark, doubled our total investment to more than $350 million. And we're just getting started.