Associate General Counsel
Veho
About Veho
About the Role
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a day-to-day legal partner to the People team, providing both strategic and real-time advice on a wide range of employment matters
- Advise on employee lifecycle issues, including recruiting, hiring, performance management, discipline, terminations, leaves of absence, accommodations, and compensation
- Provide fast, pragmatic guidance on employment obligations across U.S. jurisdictions
- Draft, review, and maintain employment-related documents including offer letters, separation agreements, and employee handbook updates
- Partner with People and Compliance to build and refine policies, standards, and processes that are legally sound and operationally effective
- Advise on independent contractor classification and workforce model risk
- Partner with Trust and Safety to handle contractor disputes, including reviewing claims, advising on risk, and shaping communications and outcomes
- Handle and respond to agency charges and pre-litigation disputes including EEOC and state-level matters
- Lead or support internal investigations involving employee conduct, policy violations, and other sensitive matters
- Advise on sensitive and high-risk People decisions, partnering with the Head of Legal as appropriate
- Stay current on evolving employment laws and translate them into actionable guidance for the business
- Manage day-to-day litigation and pre-litigation matters including employment disputes, workers comp claims, contractor-related claims, and other civil matters
- Partner with the Head of Legal on litigation strategy, risk assessment, and key decisions, while independently driving certain litigation matters such as workers compensation
- Support responses to regulatory inquiries, agency investigations, and enforcement actions
- Coordinate discovery efforts, document collection, and responses to subpoenas and information requests
- Prepare internal stakeholders for depositions, interviews, and other proceedings
- Manage dispute resolution for inbound complaints, claims, and legal demands
- Collaborate cross-functionally to gather facts, assess risk, and drive resolution strategies
- Identify trends across disputes and litigation and translate them into preventative actions
- Stay current on relevant legal and regulatory developments and advise stakeholders
AI and Legal Operations
- Identify and implement opportunities to use AI and automation across legal workflows including drafting, investigations, dispute triage, and knowledge management
- Advise on emerging legal issues at the intersection of AI and employment
- Build lightweight systems, templates, and playbooks that increase speed, consistency, and scalability
- Continuously improve how legal supports the business with a focus on efficiency and leverage
- Must have
- 10+ years of employment law and litigation experience, including time in-house
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership in New York
- Strong experience advising on U.S. federal and state employment laws
- Experience handling employee relations issues, investigations, and counseling
- Experience managing employment litigation, agency charges, and pre-litigation disputes
- Experience working closely with HR or People teams
- Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth, or ambiguous environments
- Demonstrated use of AI tools in legal workflows or strong willingness to adopt
- Nice to have:
- In-house or secondment experience
- Marketplace, logistics, or gig economy experience
- Experience supporting Trust and Safety or similar teams
- Experience building legal processes from scratch
- Exposure to international employment law