# Assistant General Counsel, Employment and Litigation **Company**: KoBold Metals **Location**: Remote (Eastern Time Zone) **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $210,000 - $265,000, plus equity and benefits including 401k matching **Category**: Legal **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/koboldmetals/jobs/4708376005?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_4e561e56-fb8 ## Description This in-house employment and litigation attorney will play an important role in building a global AI-driven clean-tech company that invents breakthrough technology, discovers billions of dollars of minerals, and helps to stop climate change. The Assistant General Counsel will: - Be an integral part of an in-house legal team in a technology and mineral exploration company growing rapidly around the world - Provide leverage and support to the CLO and DGC so that they are more effective at advancing the company’s priorities - Develop major parts of the company’s legal function with a particular focus on employment law, immigration, investigations, global workforce matters, employment-related compliance, and general litigation - Advise on employment matters across multiple jurisdictions, including the U.S., Australia, Canada, the UK, Europe, Africa, and other regions where the company operates - Draft, review, and negotiate employment agreements, consulting agreements, separation agreements, CIIAAs, offer letters, secondment arrangements, and other workforce-related documents - Develop, maintain, and improve employee handbooks, policies, procedures, trainings, and internal guidance for a rapidly growing global company - Advise on employment laws and practices affecting a mobile, international workforce, including hiring, terminations, discipline, accommodations, leaves of absence, wage and hour, workplace safety, anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, retaliation, remote work, and cross-border employment issues - Partner with HR, talent acquisition, finance, tax, equity administration, and outside immigration counsel or mobility specialists on workforce mobility, immigration, visas, relocation, and international travel matters - Support employee equity matters, including in the context of grants, option exercises, terminations, mobility, tax coordination, and public-company or IPO-readiness processes - Support public-company readiness and public-company employment matters, including compensation governance, executive employment arrangements, employment-related disclosure, and CD&A support where applicable - Act as primary point of contact in legal department for and manage disputes, threatened claims, litigation, arbitration, mediation, agency charges, and settlement negotiations (employee-related and otherwise) - Represent the company in dealings with government agencies on employee matters, including labor, employment, immigration, workplace safety, benefits, and other workforce-related agencies - Lead and advise on internal employee-related investigations, including investigations involving senior employees, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, conflicts of interest, misconduct, policy violations, and other sensitive workplace issues - Advise on employee benefits matters in the U.S. and abroad, including 401(k), pension, leave, health, retirement, and similar benefit programs - Advise on labor relations and union-related issues where they arise, including works councils, collective consultation, union engagement, and labor-law issues in non-U.S. jurisdictions - Have many opportunities to be involved in other areas as the company and its legal functions grow, including intellectual property, data, AI, privacy, broader compliance, and corporate matters - Create processes and policies to help build a high-functioning legal department and scalable global employment function - Provide immediate legal and business advice to internal clients who include senior executives, finance, HR, talent acquisition and tax - Work across the company to set and meet high standards of ethics, with a focus on safety, anti-corruption, community support, environmental protection, anti-discrimination, and integrity - Hire and supervise outside counsel across many subject areas and jurisdictions - Work on whatever needs to be done Qualifications: - 13-16 years of experience, with a minimum of 4 years at a top law firm as an employment and/or executive compensation and benefits associate, ideally followed by time working in-house advising business and HR clients directly, ideally including experience at a public company and at a smaller high-growth company - Strong desire and ability to provide leverage, support, and partnership to the CLO and DGC - Global employment experience, preferably including Australia, Canada, the UK, Europe, and/or Africa, working with highly mobile workforce - Substantial experience drafting, negotiating, and advising on employment agreements, separation agreements, employee handbooks and policies, CIIAAs, restrictive covenants, offer letters, and other employment-related documents - Strong working knowledge of employment laws and practical HR counseling, including hiring, terminations, discipline, wage and hour, leaves, accommodations, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, workplace safety, remote work, and cross-border employment issues - Experience with workforce mobility, immigration, visas, relocation, international travel, and cross-border assignments, including working with immigration counsel, mobility specialists, or similar advisors - Public-company or IPO-readiness experience on employment matters, including employee equity; experience with executive compensation disclosure or CD&A support is a strong plus - Litigation and investigations experience, including employee-related disputes, agency proceedings, arbitrations, mediations, threatened claims, settlement negotiations, and internal employee-related investigations - Experience dealing with government agencies on employee matters - Experience with employee benefits matters, including 401(k), pension, retirement, health, leave, or similar benefit programs; non-U.S. pension or benefits experience is a strong plus - Understanding of labor unions, works councils, collective consultation, or other labor-relations issues is a strong plus - Experience with intellectual property, data, AI, privacy, or broader compliance matters is a strong plus - Excellent drafting and contracts skills - Experience with working in a global company and learning many different foreign legal systems and business environments - Interest in working in a company that requires high levels of collaboration and communication among teammates working remotely across many time zones and continents - Strong desire and ability to develop relationships throughout the company and beyond - Strong organizational and communication skills - Interest in working in a science-based company where most colleagues are scientists and science is the focus of many company meetings and documents - Strong ability to learn new tools and solve new problems continuously - An optimistic attitude toward work, people, and solving bespoke problems of first instance - Strong ability to be a leader in setting a high standard of ethics - Ability and desire to travel periodically (roughly 1x per quarter) - J.D. from a top law school and active admission to a state bar - French language skills a plus ## Skills ### Required - employment law - immigration - investigations - global workforce matters - employment-related compliance - litigation - arbitration - mediation - agency charges - settlement negotiations - employee benefits - labor relations - union-related issues - intellectual property - data - AI - privacy - broader compliance - corporate matters ### Nice to have - French language skills - experience with mining or mineral exploration --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/koboldmetals/jobs/4708376005?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)