Senior Counsel, Employment & Labor

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Epic Games

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Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology$1. .$1

Game Development • Game Engine • Publishing • Unreal Engine • Real-Time Technology

1001 - 5000

Description

• Advise Epic Games on employment, labor, and contingent workforce matters. • Provide legal advice for Employment Legal Team across regions. • Support the People Team managing employment and labor law risks. • Partner with external counsel for legal needs. • Monitor labor and employment legal landscapes across regions. • Advise on employee relations and employment investigations. • Direct and supervise employment investigations with partners. • Identify ways to proactively manage employment risk. • Work with litigation counsel to manage litigation risk.

Requirements

• Be actively licensed/qualified and in good standing to practice law in the jurisdiction (mandatory). • Preference for lawyers actively licensed in good standing in the UK (preferred). • At least 5 years’ experience as an in-house employment counsel in games, tech, digital entertainment, or interactive media industries in the UK (post-trainee), US, or Canada. • Ability to report to one or more Epic studios as needed and to travel occasionally for work. • Experience working in a sophisticated, fast-paced, fast-changing working environment. • Experience advising businesses in a wide array of employment and labor matters and disputes. • Confidence in being a first point of contact for multiple People Team Partners, corporate functions partners, and key business stakeholders. • A proactive self-starter and strategic thinker. • A quick and flexible learner; intellectually curious, open-minded, adaptable, highly practical. • An ambitious mindset that enables you to work independently with little guidance. • Maintain high ethical and professional responsibility standards.

Benefits

• We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). • Our current benefits package includes pension. • private medical insurance. • health care cash plan. • dental insurance. • disability and life insurance. • critical illness. • cycle to work scheme. • flu shots. • health checks. • meals. • robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, providing free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.