Senior Employment Counsel
Bethesda · Waltham · USD 154,000-242,000 · 8+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 22, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Bethesda · Waltham
- Salary
- USD 154,000-242,000 · OTE
About ZoomInfo
- ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM) is the Go-To-Market Intelligence Platform that empowers businesses to grow faster with AI-ready insights, trusted data, and advanced automation. Its solutions provide more than 35,000 companies worldwide with a complete view of their customers, making every seller their best seller.
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About the role
- ZoomInfo is looking for an experienced, pragmatic, and business-minded Senior Counsel, Labor & Employment to join our growing in-house legal team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- In this role, you will own the full spectrum of employment matters across the company—from high-impact strategic advisory and executive consultation to the day-to-day, tactical support of our HR team.
Responsibilities
- Provide reliable, day-to-day counseling and tactical execution on performance management, employee discipline, accommodations, leave, and terminations.
- Partner with and support HR professionals at every level of the organization, from senior HR VPs to entry-level HRBPs.
- Provide actionable, pragmatic guidance that balances legal risk with commercial objectives, operational speed, and employee experience.
- Translate complex employment-law issues into clear, concise, and business-oriented terms for senior leaders.
- Partner with the CHRO, Chief Business Officer, HR VPs, and finance/compensation executives to support key employment-related decisions and strategy.
- Maintain open-door collaboration and recurring alignment meetings with designated HR leaders to ensure seamless daily support.
- Oversee employment matters across all company jurisdictions including the U.S., UK, Ireland, India, Canada, and Israel.
- Review, update, and scale employment policies, procedures, handbooks, and agreements as the business evolves.
- Create and implement scalable processes, templates, and decision frameworks where current practices are informal, growing, or evolving.
- Effectively supervise and partner with outside counsel on litigation, administrative proceedings, and specialized matters.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant employment law experience.
- Juris Doctor degree.
- Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
Preferred qualifications
- In-house experience is strongly preferred.
- Candidates with significant law firm experience will be considered if they have served in an outside general counsel/embedded capacity or completed a corporate secondment.
- Experience in high-growth technology companies and/or public companies is highly valued.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits
- Holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being
- Bonus
- Commission
- Equity
Workplace
- This hybrid role is based out of the Bethesda, MD or Waltham, MA offices.
- Rare travel may be required such as occasional on-site depositions, mediations, trials, or annual team off-sites in a U.S. office.