Papaya Global is a PayTech company building technology for cross-border payroll, payments, and workforce management. Its platform helps businesses coordinate payroll and payment operations across more than 160 countries, with services covering contractor payments, employer of record solutions, and real-time payment processing. The company also supports API integrations, workforce data analysis, fraud prevention, and data security, giving global organizations tools to manage international workforce payments with greater accuracy, visibility, and regulatory control.
Senior Legal Counsel, Employment Law — Austin Hybrid
Advise Papaya Global on global employment law, commercial contracts, litigation, and AI-supported legal operations. Partner across teams and jurisdictions to manage legal risk and support workforce and business needs.
Description
- Manage global employment matters and act as the primary contact for labor and employment law issues, including litigation.
- Advise on recruiting, hiring, performance management, terminations, compensation, and restrictive covenants.
- Draft, revise, and advise on employment, contractor, and separation agreements.
- Draft, review, and negotiate client, partner, vendor, and third-party contracts, including services agreements, NDAs, DPAs, and SaaS agreements.
- Explain employment law requirements and provide practical legal guidance to clients.
- Collaborate with global partners on employment-related legal matters.
- Coordinate clients’ legal and commercial requirements with related legal considerations.
- Support Sales, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Customer Success on a broad range of legal issues.
- Provide general corporate law advice when needed.
- Use AI tools for contract analysis, legal drafting, employment law research, and synthesizing requirements across jurisdictions.
- Apply AI-assisted methods to strengthen consistency, efficiency, quality, knowledge management, and internal legal operations while preserving accuracy and professional judgment.
Requirements
- US-qualified attorney or lawyer.
- At least four years of in-house counsel experience in a high-tech or fintech company, along with experience practicing at a prominent law firm.
- Expert knowledge of local and international labor and employment law.
- Human resources or related experience is advantageous.
- Litigation experience is advantageous.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Effective organizational and time-management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities with self-motivation and persistence.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfort working with a global customer base in a multicultural environment.
- Ability to explain legal issues and solutions clearly and concisely.
- Practical experience using AI tools for legal drafting, contract review, employment law research, legal summarization, and cross-jurisdictional analysis.
- Ability to design and implement AI-assisted legal operations workflows, including AI-driven processes and automation, while maintaining legal accuracy, confidentiality, and professional judgment.
Benefits
- Full-time employment.
- Remote or hybrid work arrangement, as indicated by the posting title.