Senior Counsel, Employment

The Role

The Counsel or Senior Counsel will support the Associate General Counsel responsible for supporting one of our business units. This is a great opportunity to support and enable the transformation of Tesla's HR team into an indispensable strategic business partner. You should be confident (but humble), have a sense of humor, and passionate about helping our HR team grow, scale, and thrive. You will work with your colleagues in HR to enable their success, and you will have the opportunity to work and influence every part of Tesla in a positive way.

Responsibilities

• As a member of Tesla's fun and fast-paced Legal Department, this attorney will serve as the primary employment attorney for one of Tesla's business units. Key to this role will be to get out ahead of any potential issues, assess and manage employment law risk, and offer practical, creative solutions to your business partners. Specific responsibilities will include:
• Drafting responses to the EEOC, NLRB, and other government agencies arising in the assigned business unit.
• Provide day to day advice on a broad range of employment issues, including HR practices, performance management, terminations, recruiting, hiring, compensation and benefits, wage and hour, and labor relations.
• Help build and implement scalable, world-class employment policies and programs that balance legal risk with business impact.
• Embed with the company's HR teams to handle and support compliance, employee issues, internal investigations, audits, pre-dispute conflicts, employment law claims, arbitrations and labor matters.
• Manage all aspects of litigation and discovery, including e-discovery, and coordination with company witnesses and record custodians.
• Lead and collaborate with cross-functional partners on complex projects to sustain and enhance employment law compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
• Work closely with outside counsel to manage risk and ensure that internal partners receive effective, business-focused employment law support.
• Support the company's commitment to a discrimination and harassment free workplace by assisting on employment compliance projects as needed and providing training to managers and employees.

Attributes

• You will possess an entrepreneurial mindset, and take active ownership of your areas of responsibility. We are looking for a self-motivated strong teammate with the ability to get out ahead of problems, drive projects, and execute pragmatic/creative legal and business solutions on a timely basis.
• Capable of working both autonomously and collaboratively, you will be effective at juggling and prioritizing multiple competing tasks in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
• A quick and flexible learner: intellectually curious, open-minded, adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity and risk, and excited by dynamic change.
• Adept at and comfortable making complex cost/benefit assessments.
• You inspire trust, forge relationships quickly, and earn the confidence and cooperation of your business partners. You have strong interpersonal skills, and can effectively navigate and use your relationships at all levels of any organization.
• You have high standards, impeccable integrity and ethics, unquestionable good judgment, well-honed analytical skills, strong oral and written communications skills, and a keen sense of humor.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of employment and labor law experience at a highly respected law firm, in-house corporate environment, and/or government service.
• J.D. required. Admission to the California Bar preferred.
• Experienced in employment and labor disputes.
• Client counseling experience required, and employment litigation experience preferred.
• Evidence of exceptional ability.

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

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