[Hiring] Employment Counsel @6sense

Role Description

We are hiring a Senior Counsel to anchor our employment and compliance work while flexing across the broader legal remit as business needs evolve. This role is designed for an attorney with 5 years of overall legal experience, including at least 2 years of meaningful employment law experience, who wants to build broad in-house judgment rather than remain narrowly specialized.

You will serve as a trusted advisor to our People team and take meaningful ownership of employment counseling, investigations, policies, compliance, and related matters. Once the employment portfolio is well managed, you may also support basic corporate governance and other legal department priorities. You will use AI thoughtfully to accelerate your work while maintaining the accuracy, judgment, confidentiality, and accountability expected of legal counsel.

This role is employment-focused, but it is designed for an attorney who wants to grow as a broad in-house counselor. If you want meaningful ownership, direct business partnership, and the opportunity to deepen your employment expertise while exercising sound legal judgment, this may be the right fit.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day employment law matters: Advise on workplace policies, performance management, investigations, leave and accommodation questions, wage-and-hour issues, employee relations, and separations across our jurisdictions, including coordination with local counsel where appropriate.
• Draft, review, and negotiate employment documents: Prepare offer letters, separation and settlement agreements, employment-related memos, and local-counsel engagement agreements; respond to employment-related subpoenas and personnel file requests.
• Build and maintain compliance infrastructure: Design and operate practical processes for regulatory monitoring, training, policy review, audits, investigations, and compliance reporting.
• Support corporate governance: Assist with subsidiary maintenance, director and officer matters, board and committee materials, corporate records, and other governance work.
• Flex across the broader legal remit: Take on matters in commercial, privacy, product, IP, litigation, and other areas as workload and business priorities evolve.
• Use AI as a core tool: Apply AI tools to legal research, drafting, issue spotting, analysis, and knowledge management; validate outputs; protect confidential information.
• Exercise sound judgment and know when to escalate: Identify when a matter requires a specialist colleague, a second legal review, or outside counsel.
• Partner directly with the business: Work directly with People, Finance, Sales, Product, Security, and other stakeholders as a trusted advisor.
• Build for scale: Create scalable playbooks, templates, guidance, and processes that improve consistency, speed, and ownership across the organization.

Qualifications

• A J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 4-5 years of relevant legal experience in-house, in private practice, or a combination of both.
• At least 2 years of meaningful employment law experience, including advising on employee relations, workplace policies, investigations, accommodations or leave, performance management, or separations.
• Experience supporting employment compliance, policies, training, investigations, audits, or related operational processes.
• Demonstrated comfort working outside a narrow specialty and developing a practical working knowledge of unfamiliar legal issues.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools for legal research, drafting, or analysis, with a clear approach to verification, confidentiality, and responsible reliance on AI-assisted output.
• Experience supporting a global workforce or coordinating multi-jurisdictional employment matters, including work involving the UK or India.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to translate legal risk into clear, actionable business advice.
• Sound judgment about risk, ownership, and escalation.
• A builder's mindset, strong follow-through, and comfort making progress in an environment where priorities and assignments may evolve.

Nice to Have

• Prior in-house experience, particularly at a high-growth, PE-backed, VC-backed, or B2B SaaS company.
• Experience with, or interest in learning, routine corporate governance or subsidiary management.
• Familiarity with privacy, data protection, AI governance, or technology-related compliance.
• Experience developing playbooks, knowledge systems, technology-enabled workflows, or other scalable legal processes.

Benefits

• Full-time employees can take advantage of health coverage, paid parental leave, generous paid time-off and holidays, quarterly self-care days off, and stock options.
• Growth mindset culture with numerous learning and development initiatives including access to our LinkedIn Learning platform.
• Quarterly wellness education sessions to encourage self-care and personal growth.
• Celebration of employee backgrounds through wellness days and ERG-hosted events.

Equal Opportunity Employer

6sense is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.