# Senior Employment Counsel

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176,000 - $264,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Employment Counsel to join our team in Palo Alto, CA. As a key member of our legal department, you will be responsible for developing and implementing xAI's compliance program for state and federal employment laws.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

- Developing and implementing policies and procedures on employment matters affecting the Company, including accommodations, leaves of absence, onboarding, and drug and alcohol programs

- Conducting regular audits of xAI's compliance program, policies, and procedures and working closely with cross-functional teams to develop and track implementation of corrective actions

- Providing legal counsel on employment separation matters, job classifications, background checks, and recruiting

- Drafting training, commenting on training, and providing select training to people leaders

- Responsible for OFCCP compliance reports and similar filings

- Advising Benefits on compliance with relevant law, and reviewing and providing comments on contracts for company benefits

- Monitoring labor, employment, and benefits law developments and advising HR and management of recommended changes

- Owning drafting and updating Employee Handbook

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A JD from an ABA-accredited school

- 10+ years of employment law experience

- Excellent academic record at a top-tier law school

- Relevant experience with a major law firm or corporation

- Experience with AAP preparation and/or OFCCP compliance evaluations

- Experience counseling clients with significant domestic manufacturing operations

- Experience counseling clients with significant international operations

- Experience with California employment law

- Demonstrated skill in providing legal training to business team members (both course development and presentation)

- Ability to communicate in a clear, concise manner

- Capacity to focus on diverse projects with rapidly changing priorities

- Solution-oriented thinking and communication

- Strong problem-solving skills

This position is based in Palo Alto, CA and requires being onsite. Remote work is not considered.

The salary for this position is $176,000 - $264,000 USD per year, depending on experience. xAI offers a comprehensive benefits package, including equity, medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

## Skills

### Required
- employment law
- compliance program
- policy development
- training
- OFCCP compliance
- benefits law
- labor law
- California employment law

### Nice to have
- AAP preparation
- OFCCP compliance evaluations
- international employment law
- domestic manufacturing operations
- significant international operations
- clear communication
- problem-solving skills
- solution-oriented thinking

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