Senior Counsel, Employment Law

Were looking for a Senior Counsel Employment Law to join the Employment Litigation & Compliance (ELC) team in Procores Legal Regulatory & Compliance (LRC) this global role you will help drive scalable employment law processes and practices in our North America (NAMER) and EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa) regions with a focus on providing expert risk-adjusted advice and counsel as ELCs primary day-to-day advisor for the EMEA region. You will also serve as a key member of various cross-functional project teams and provide support for Latin America-based employment matters as needed. 

The ideal candidate will possess the skills needed to execute the employment law teams objectives and key results including driving process and program improvements through training on best practices creation of toolkits and the implementation of other effective solutions that can be scaled to achieve broad impact and sustainability. 

As Senior Counsel Employment Law you will partner with members of our Executive LRC Finance and People teams to provide advice counsel and support on a broad range of global employment law matters. To be successful in this role you must have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to simplify legal concepts into appropriately risk-adjusted business-oriented advice marshal buy-in drive change and create effective and relevant presentation and training materials in visually captivating mediums.

This position will report to our Director & Assistant General Counsel Employment Law. This role can be remote or based in one of Procores U.S.-based office locations in either the Central or Eastern time zone to provide critical support during EMEA working hours. 

What youll do: 

• Provide proactive and strategic counsel on employment law matters primarily in support of our NAMER and EMEA regions (and additional global support as needed) including on topics related to recruiting restrictive covenants interpretation of employment contracts employee relations performance management terminations reductions in force leaves of absence and accommodations wage and hour commission plans pay equity internal investigations sick leave compensation and benefits privacy remote and contingent workers immigration and employment-related aspects of mergers acquisitions and other corporate and strategic transactions

• Counsel management on and implement practical solutions that enable business objectives while balancing legal risk 

• Partner effectively across Procores LRC and People organizations to create and ensure clarity of vision and strategy and bring focus and direction to the most important priorities that will drive the biggest impact mitigate the most significant risks and deliver the greatest return on the investment of the employment law functions resources

• Anticipate legal issues and monitor emerging employment law risks regulations and opportunities in the jurisdictions in which we operate that may impact the business and proactively advise the business on timely and practical adjustments to policies practices and procedures as necessary

• Manage employment-related projects with a hands-on results-oriented approach including (i) building scalable legal support processes (ii) integrating with other risk functions (e.g. Ethics & Compliance Privacy & Data Protection Internal Audit and Corporate) to ensure necessary awareness and alignment and (iii) developing global employment law solutions and toolkits and conducting trainings feedback sessions and audits to support effective implementation of the same 

• Act as the primary hands-on legal partner for the EMEA region directly executing and providing strategic counsel on employment matters in the UK and Ireland including strategically managing outside counsel in other specific EMEA jurisdictions where specialized expertise is required (e.g. France Czech Republic Egypt UAE) to deliver cross-jurisdictional strategic counsel and outstanding service and results

• Foster a collaborative and supportive environment within LRC with the People organization and with other key business partners and functions

• Strategically manage employment-related disputes and litigation as well as administrative agency charges investigations and audits with legal acumen and cost-effectiveness

• Lead or support additional LRC projects as needed potentially including the ongoing ownership of longer-term programs

What were looking for: 

• JD from an accredited law school and must be admitted active and in good standing with the state bar in which the position is located or with another state bar and registered or eligible to register as in-house counsel with the state bar in which the position is located

• 10 years of extensive experience and expertise as a practicing attorney advising multinational business clients on global employment law matters including 5 years of experience as in-house employment law counsel (ideally at a SaaS or other high-growth technology company)

• Deep extensive experience and expertise advising multinational clients on EMEA employment laws with a proven track record of drafting negotiating and revising agreements policies and programs relating to employment relationships in the region

• Significant experience with the following jurisdictions is highly preferred: (i) U.S. employment laws across multiple states including expertise in Texas New York and California and (ii) Canadian employment law across multiple provinces including expertise in Ontario Quebec Alberta and British Columbia

• A solid understanding of international employment laws in other countries where Procore operates such as India Costa Rica and Australia is beneficial

• Highly agile results-oriented tenacious and resilient self-starter with ability to manage shifting client demands and priorities in a fast-paced global high-growth environment 

• Detail-oriented organized efficient and resourceful with exceptional follow-through skills 

• Exceptional business acumen judgment and discretion in dealing with highly sensitive information

• Outstanding interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to navigate a dynamic workplace to identify and collaborate with key stakeholders influence without direct authority and interface effectively with all business functions and levels to drive business initiatives

• Demonstrated track record of successfully implementing and scaling legal solutions to achieve broad impact and sustainability

• A keen interest in leveraging AI technologies (such as Google Gemini NotebookLM and Harvey) to amplify your reach recapture bandwidth and gain efficiency

• Proven experience and skills working in Google applications (including Google Slides Drive Docs and Sheets) Slack Jira DocuSign Ironclad SimpleLegal Workday HRAcuity and ComplianceHR

Additional Information :

Base Pay Range $200000 - $275000. Eligible for Bonus Incentive Compensation. Eligible for Equity Compensation. Procore is committed to offering competitive fair and commensurate compensation and has provided an estimated pay range for this role. Actual compensation will be based on a candidates job-related skills experience education or training and location.

Perks & Benefits

At Procore we invest in our employees and provide a full range of benefits and perks to help you grow and thrive. From generous paid time off and healthcare coverage to career enrichment and development programs learn more details about what we offer and how we empower you to be your best.

About Us

Procore Technologies is building the software that builds the world. We provide cloud-based construction management software that helps clients more efficiently build skyscrapers hospitals retail centers airports housing complexes and more. At Procore we have worked hard to create and maintain a culture where you can own your work and are encouraged and given resources to try new ideas. Check us out on Glassdoor to see what others are saying about working at Procore.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and welcome builders of all backgrounds. We thrive in a dynamic and inclusive environment. We do not tolerate discrimination against candidates or employees on the basis of gender sex national origin civil status family status sexual orientation religion age disability race traveler community status as a protected veteran or any other classification protected by law.

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For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Procore will consider for employment all qualified applicants including those with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the requirements of applicable federal state and local laws including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

A criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: 1. appropriately managing accessing and handling confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information as well as accessing Procores information technology systems and platforms; 2. interacting with and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external customers stakeholders and/or colleagues; and 3. exercising sound judgment.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time