Senior Counsel, Global Workforce Strategy & Compliance

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Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
7+ Years Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
The Senior Counsel will oversee the implementation of a global workforce strategy, advising on cross-border employment issues and compliance, while collaborating with various teams to develop scalable workforce solutions and documentation. Additionally, the role involves staying updated on emerging regulations and managing relationships with outside counsel.
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About Turing

Based in Palo Alto, California, Turing is the world’s first AI-powered tech services company. It has reimagined tech services from the ground up with AI by offering AI-vetted and matched talent, AI-accelerated development, and access to AI transformation experts who have built many of the most iconic Silicon Valley companies. 

Founded in 2018, the company has experienced tremendous growth with three million global developers on its Talent Cloud and 900+ clients. Turing has received numerous awards, including Forbes’s 2022 “One of America’s Best Startup Employers,” being ranked #1 in The Information’s 2021 Annual List of most promising B2B Companies and Fast Company’s “Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.”

The company’s leadership team comprises both AI technologists from leading organizations including Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Stanford, Caltech, MIT as well as tech consulting veterans from Accenture, Cognizant, Capgemini, McKinsey, Bain, and more.

About the role:

We are looking for a strategic Senior Counsel to support the iteration and deployment of our global workforce strategy during a time of rapid growth. In this role, you will partner closely with cross-functional teams to build and implement the business frameworks that enable Turing to expand its innovative remote-first approach to work. With an immediate focus on the US, India, and Brazil markets, you will be key to improving upon and building scalable and pragmatic workforce business solutions that support Turing’s mission of Unleashing the World's Untapped Human Potential across Turing’s now and future operating locations.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Critical advisor to the business on deploying Turing's global workforce strategy across multiple worker classifications and jurisdictions
  • Close partner with People, Recruiting, Product, Sales and Operations teams to both embed legal compliance into our core processes while partnering with the People team to close gaps created as a result of rapid scaling
  • Provide expert counsel on cross-border workforce issues, including worker classification, compensation structures, and workforce scale-up/scale-downs consistent with business needs, contract terms, and local laws
  • Support the Sales process as necessary through thoughtful engagement with clients and prospective clients on issues related to the workforce 
  • Create and implement employment/workforce documentation, policies, and training programs for global use
  • Stay ahead of emerging trends in AI-In-The-Workplace regulations and the Future of Work
  • Advise on contractor and gig economy-related legal issues as part of Turing's overall workforce strategy
  • Manage outside counsel relationships and locate/develop new ones in our emerging markets as necessary

Requirements:

  • J.D. with 8+ years of law firm or in-house experience with a background in cross-border employment issues and international workforce management
  • Deep expertise in cross-border employment laws, with significant exposure to US and California employment law, Indian and/or Brazilian employment law
  • Experience partnering with HR, Recruiting, and Operations teams in high-growth environments
  • An ability and desire  to provide creative, business-oriented solutions to complex legal challenges especially around global workforce management complexities
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Self-starter mentality
  • Active membership in US State Bar

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with and enjoyment in learning about AI/ML regulatory frameworks
  • In-house experience at a global technology company or tech services firm
  • Track record of successfully guiding companies through expansion into new jurisdictions
  • Experience working in distributed or remote teams
  • An understanding of the laws and business considerations relating to the future of work and the gig economy
Advantages of joining Turing:
  • Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
  • Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
  • Competitive compensation
  • Flexible working hours
  • Full-time remote opportunity

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace  and celebrate authenticity, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

For applicants from the European Union, please review Turing's GDPR notice here.

The Company
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
1,401 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

We now live in a remote-first world and every company is in a race to find the best remote engineers. There are so many amazing engineers all over the world. Turing’s mission is to help unleash the world’s untapped human potential.

More than 300 companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Bloomberg, Andreessen, Founders Fund, and Kleiner are already using Turing to spin up their engineering dream teams.

Turing’s hiring platform combines the planetary reach and AI to deliver your ideal engineers in order to help you spin up your engineering dream team. Our deep matching intelligence finds the best Turing developers across 100+ skills like React, Node, Python, Golang, Angular, Swift, Java, and many more. As part of our rigorous vetting process, we also review software engineers’ technical abilities, English skills, and remote working capabilities. Turing ensures time zone overlap, transparency, and reliable communication in order to make remote development easy for you after the match.

The Turing team has deep expertise in AI and building engineering dream teams in the U.S. at top companies. Turing company is backed by well-known investors like Facebook’s initial CTO (Adam D’Angelo), executives from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Founders Fund (investors in Facebook, Tesla, Asana, etc). Turing.com is led by serial A.I. entrepreneurs Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay Krishnan, their last A.I. firm leveraged remote talent and had a successful acquisition.

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