# Sr. Lead Counsel, Labor & Employment

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $178,255-$366,996 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Lead Counsel with a strong background in advising on complex employment matters to join our team.

The Employment Law Team at Pinterest provides strategic, practical counsel to the People Team and business leaders on workforce decisions across the employee lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as a trusted senior advisor to executives, People Team leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders on complex employment matters.

- Independently assess complex and ambiguous legal and business risks, synthesize competing considerations, and provide decisive, practical recommendations aligned with Pinterest’s objectives.

- Lead the development and implementation of employment-related agreements, policies, guidelines, and other legal documents and operating practices.

- Develop and lead complex, cross-functional employment-law initiatives, including compliance programs, policy rollouts, process improvements, training, and other strategic People Team priorities.

- Partner with senior stakeholders to identify emerging risks, set priorities, secure resources, and drive alignment and accountability across interconnected workstreams.

- Manage significant employment disputes, litigation, agency investigations, and regulatory matters.

- Manage outside counsel relationships, budgets, and legal work to budget.

- Monitor developments in employment law and translate them into clear, actionable guidance, policies, training, and scalable business practices.

- Act as an AI-forward legal partner by identifying responsible opportunities to use AI to improve legal research, risk spotting, workflow efficiency, knowledge management, and service delivery.

Requirements:

- JD and active bar admission, with a minimum of 10 years of experience handling complex employment matters in a law firm or in-house environment.

- In-house experience in a fast-paced organization is preferred.

- Deep knowledge of U.S. employment law and experience advising senior business and People leaders on high-impact, complex matters.

- Exceptional judgment and decision-making skills.

- Excellent communication and executive-influence skills.

- Proven ability to independently lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and drive alignment and accountability across stakeholders.

- Strong experience negotiating and managing employment litigation, agency investigations, regulatory matters, and outside counsel relationships.

- AI-forward mindset.

- Impeccable integrity, discretion, resilience, and commitment to an inclusive environment.

Benefits:

- Base salary range: $178,255-$366,996 USD

- Equity

Relocation Statement:

- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

## Skills

### Required
- U.S. employment law
- complex employment matters
- legal research
- risk spotting
- workflow efficiency
- knowledge management
- service delivery
- AI

### Nice to have
- in-house experience
- California or New York bar admission

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