Senior Employment Counsel, North America

The opportunity

Unity is looking for a Senior Employment Counsel to lead and advise on North America-specific employment issues for the company. This role sits within the Corporate Legal team and reports directly to the Sr. Director of Employment, ER, and Compliance. You will work cross-functionally with the global People team and senior business leaders to advise on all legal aspects of the employee lifecycle while also creating scalable employment policies, processes, templates, and training. We are looking for a strategic thinker who understands the business implications of legal decisions, and is able to autonomously prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. We are looking for an attorney with significant California and US federal employment law experience, who has also advised on Canadian employment issues.

What you'll be doing

• Day-to-day advice and counseling on a range of employment law issues, including recruiting, hiring, compensation and benefits, termination, diversity and inclusion, Employee Relations investigations, employee privacy, leaves of absence, contingent workforce, and litigation

• Work with local HR partners and local counsel to draft and review US and Canada-related agreements, letters, policies, and templates.

• Collaborate with Unity’s UK-based Senior Employment Counsel, EMEA and APAC Lead, to develop and refine globally scalable employment processes, policies, training, and strategies that balance business needs with risk mitigation.

• Partner with our People Compliance team to ensure Unity’s compliance with local reporting regulations, including EEO-1, AAP, and other local and federal requirements

• Work with senior business partners and outside counsel on litigation and special projects, including M&A, location and entity evaluations, workforce management, and business organization

What we're looking for

• An attorney with a JD from an accredited law school who possesses in-depth knowledge of California and US federal employment laws and some experience advising on issues in Canada.

• Ability to draft documents, policies, and messages in a clear, concise, and digestible manner for business partners

• Comfort autonomously prioritizing deliverables in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment

• High level of comfort working with technology, such as Google Drive, Excel, Powerpoint, Slack, etc.

• May require some travel

You might also have

• Prior in-house experience working with a high-tech company

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.

• International relocation support is not available for this position.

• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity.

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Gross pay salary

$116,000—$220,900 USD