# Sr. Counsel, Employment

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $197,800-$272,050 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Counsel, Employment to provide sophisticated, practical legal advice to the Databricks People Team and business leaders. The successful candidate will be a pragmatic and resourceful advisor with strong project-management discipline and the ability to move quickly while maintaining a high standard of legal and operational precision.

Responsibilities:

- Advise on cash compensation programs, bonus and incentive plans, clawback policies, equal-pay requirements, pay equity reviews, compensation governance, and related internal and external disclosures.

- Provide legal advice on employee benefits, including retirement plans, welfare and wrap plans, severance plans, leave-related benefits, and country-specific benefits and protections.

- Draft, review, and update employment-related plans, policies, agreements, templates, and employee communications with exceptional precision and attention to detail.

- Advise recruiting and talent acquisition teams on candidate-facing issues, offer letters, employment agreements, compensation terms, background checks, hiring practices, and negotiations.

- Advise on global mobility and immigration matters, including employee transfers, international assignments, work authorization, permanent residence processes, employer-of-record and professional-employer-organization arrangements, cross-border moves, and related onboarding or exit issues.

- Support the employment-related aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and strategic investments.

- Advise on employee privacy and data-use issues.

- Review and advise on HR AI tools and workflows.

- Lead global employment-related projects.

- Monitor legal developments affecting compensation, benefits, pay equity, recruiting, mobility, privacy, AI, and other relevant employment areas.

- Identify and implement process improvements.

- Serve as a hands-on problem solver for sensitive, high-priority, and cross-functional issues.

- Respond to U.S. demand letters, administrative charges, and other disputes.

Qualifications & Experience Required:

- JD from a top-tier law school.

- 10+ years of relevant employment-law experience.

- Experience with compensation, benefits, pay equity, executive compensation, recruiting, global mobility, and immigration.

- Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, and strategic investments.

- Experience leading multi-jurisdictional or global projects.

- Exceptional drafting skills.

- Strong project-management skills.

- Ability to quickly and independently assess unfamiliar or time-sensitive situations.

- Ability to build strong relationships quickly and work effectively with executive stakeholders.

- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, high-growth technology company.

- Genuine enthusiasm for AI and emerging technology.

Pay Range Transparency: The pay range for this role is $197,800-$272,050 USD.

Benefits: At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.

## Skills

### Required
- employment law
- compensation
- benefits
- pay equity
- global mobility
- immigration
- mergers and acquisitions
- employee privacy
- HR AI tools

### Nice to have
- in-house experience
- firm secondee experience
- experience advising on employee privacy
- workforce data
- HR technology
- AI tools

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