Employment Counsel

About Us:

We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day. At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.

We've been working on this together since 2016, and have customers like OpenAI, Toyota, Figma, Ramp, and thousands more on this journey with us. Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.

Notion is an in person company, and currently requires its employees to come to the office for two Anchor Days (Mondays & Thursdays) and requests that employees spend the majority of their week in the office (including a third day).

About The Role:

Notion is looking for an experienced and practical employment attorney to join its Legal team. As Employment Counsel, you will partner closely with the People Team to provide day-to-day legal advice, support people programs, and drive our strategic approach to legal compliance for a global employee population.

What You'll Achieve:

• Partner with Notion’s global People team to provide day-to-day and strategic advice on a range of employment issues including recruiting and hiring, worker classification, compensation and benefits, people policies and programs, employee relations, data privacy, and HR best practices
• Advise during and guide outcomes for employee relations matters, including investigations, leaves and accommodations, performance management, and terminations; and manage employment-related disputes and litigation
• Draft, revise, and update global employment and benefits documentation and agreements
• Identify and operationalize compliance-based requirements and build scalable policies, playbooks, templates, and tools in collaboration with partner teams
• Highlight and drive practical solutions to existing and evolving employment law requirements and potential legal risks to the business
• Collaborate with other cross functional teams including legal, stock administration, payroll, accounting, procurement, revenue operations, security, and communications

Skills You'll Need to Bring:

• Admitted to the California or New York Bar or ability to be registered as in-house counsel
• 5+ years of combined experience practicing employment law at a law firm and/or in-house
• Significant experience counseling on the full spectrum employment law issues, including recruiting and hiring, worker classification, compensation and benefits, people policies and programs, employee relations, data privacy, and HR best practices
• Deep subject matter expertise in employment law with a sense of practical application, including experience with California or New York employment laws
• Ability to draft and review approachable and scalable global employment documentation, including agreements, policies, and handbooks
• Excellent drafting, written and verbal communication skills and ability provide pragmatic, creative, and fast-paced guidance in ambiguous scenarios
• Resilience, resourcefulness, and the ability to develop trusted relationships and work highly cross-functionally

Nice to Haves:

• Prior experience with fast growing technology companies, either as outside counsel or in house
• Familiarity with employment and/or benefits laws across a variety of global jurisdictions (including but not limited to, Ireland, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France, Germany, and the UK)
• Experience with international expansion
• Experience supporting employment and benefits M&A workstreams
• Enjoy working across multiple time zones and cultures
• Familiarity with Notion

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $220,000 - $250,000.

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