Employment Counsel
Remote · United States · 6+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 8, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 6+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote · United States
About the role
- Apollo is seeking an Employment Counsel to partner closely with our People team and business leaders on employment matters across our global workforce.
- You will provide practical advice throughout the employee lifecycle, help resolve sensitive workplace issues, and build processes that enable timely, consistent decisions.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day employment counseling on hiring, performance management, disciplinary actions, employee complaints, leaves and accommodations, workplace conduct, and separations.
- Partner on sensitive employee relations matters, advising on investigation planning, fact gathering, documentation, findings, and remedial action; lead or oversee investigations when appropriate.
- Guide separations and organizational changes by supporting individual and group exits, severance decisions, settlement negotiations, employee communications, and country-specific processes.
- Develop and maintain employment documents by drafting, reviewing, and improving offer letters, employment and separation agreements, confidentiality and invention-assignment agreements, and related templates.
- Support a global workforce by coordinating advice across the United States and international markets, including matters involving direct employees, contractors, and employer-of-record arrangements.
- Build repeatable processes in partnership with Legal Operations and People Operations on intake, triage, approval workflows, templates, playbooks, and matter tracking.
- Manage disputes and outside counsel by assessing employment claims and threatened disputes, coordinating preservation and response efforts, and managing external counsel's scope, strategy, quality, and spend.
- Strengthen prevention and training by delivering practical training for People partners and managers, identifying recurring issues, and prioritizing targeted improvements to policies and practices.
Requirements
- J.D. or equivalent legal qualification and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar, with eligibility to practice in this role.
- Approximately 6+ years of relevant employment-law experience, including substantial experience counseling employers directly.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. employment law, including California and multistate issues, and experience applying that knowledge to practical workplace decisions.
- Experience advising on sensitive employee relations matters, investigations, performance management, accommodations, and separations.
- Experience supporting international employment matters and coordinating with local counsel.
- The ability to give a clear recommendation when facts are incomplete, distinguish material risks from manageable ones, and escalate appropriately.
- Strong drafting, communication, and relationship-building skills, with discretion, empathy, and sound judgment.
- A track record of managing competing priorities and carrying matters through to completion.
- An interest in improving how work gets done through practical tools, training, and repeatable processes.
Preferred qualifications
- In-house employment counseling at a technology company or another business with a distributed workforce.
- Experience with employment disputes, workforce changes, contractor classification, or employer-of-record arrangements.
- Experience developing employment playbooks, document workflows, or tools that enable People teams to operate more independently.
- Experience with employment counseling for teams in the UK, Mexico, Colombia, Poland, the Philippines, India or Canada.
Benefits
- equity
- company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
- 401(k) plan
- at least 10 paid holidays per year
- flex PTO
- parental leave
- employee assistance program and wellbeing benefits
- global travel coverage
- life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance
- FSA/HSA and medical, dental, and vision benefits
Workplace
- Remote location across the United States.
