Legal Counsel, Employment & HR

Job description

Legal Counsel, Employment & HR About AlphaSights AlphaSights was born with a purpose: to unlock human knowledge and power progress. From our state-of-the-art offices in nine major world cities, we connect business leaders seeking knowledge with the experts who possess it. We’re one of the fastest-growing global companies, employing 1500+ colleagues from 60+ nationalities. What we do We operate at the heart of the global knowledge economy, providing a suite of knowledge-on-demand services to investment funds, consultancies, Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits. Our clients use our services when evaluating critical investment and business decisions. We connect them with industry experts who possess specific knowledge that is otherwise unavailable to them. We’re a fast-paced, client-driven service organization. We respond to client inquiries within minutes and deliver within hours. When deadlines are tight, and when robust insight is make or break, our clients count on us. The Role We are looking for an exceptional employment lawyer based in London to join our growing global Legal team. The Legal team is a dynamic external and internal-facing function which supports all aspects of the business across all offices, from Tokyo to San Francisco. As Legal Counsel, Employment & HR, you will work closely with the Legal team in the US, Europe and Asia, as well as with our global HR and Recruiting teams. The core responsibilities of the role are: Mitigate employment-related risk through consistent and standardized employee contracting, effective employee conversations, and decision-making; Ensure the rigorous and consistent deployment of AlphaSights’ template employment contracts globally and approve any exceptions to such template contracts; Update and enhance AlphaSights template employment contracts, handbooks and other related documents as required by law or for business need and create procedures and process efficiencies; Collaborate with global leadership to understand and resolve any potential employee legal issues / grievances; Advise all areas of the company on employment law related issues, including performance management matters; employment law claims; terminations; recruiting; hiring; compensation and benefits; performance reviews; performance improvement plans; and employee, contractor and expert classification questions; Advise on employment related issu…