Counsel, HR​/Recruitment

What you'll do

You will combine deep employment law expertise with relationship skills. You will balance legal risk, employee experience, and operational goals while helping the business move forward thoughtfully. You will report to our VP, Litigation Director. You will work in a hybrid-capacity, requiring 1-day per week at Experian's North America Headquarters in Costa Mesa, CA.

Main responsibilities include:

• Advise HR, Employee Relations, and business leaders on a broad range of employee relations and employment law matters, including performance management, accommodations, leaves, separations, workplace conduct, and organizational change.
• Provide guidance on sensitive workplace matters, helping leaders make defensible, and values‑aligned decisions.
• Support the full employment lifecycle, including recruiting, onboarding, job classification, background checks, contingent workforce matters, performance issues, and separation documentation.
• Partner on or oversee complex employee relations investigations and advise on investigation strategy, documentation, findings, remediation, and defensible record‑building.
• Manage employment‑related claims, agency charges, demand letters, mediations, audits, and litigation, including coordination with outside counsel.
• Draft, review, interpret, and update employment‑related policies, handbooks, templates, communications, and manager guidance to align with federal, state/provincial, and local legal requirements.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments across North America and translate changes into practical, scalable guidance, training, and policy updates.
• Support compliance programs involving accommodations, leaves, wage and hour, pay practices, equal employment obligations, handbook governance, and other workplace compliance requirements.
• Build trusted relationships with People/HR, Employee Relations, Compliance, Benefits, Security, Investigations, Legal, and business leaders to provide coordinated support.
• Deliver practical training for HR, employee relations practitioners, and people leaders on employment law, workplace investigations, accommodations, respectful workplace conduct, documentation, and related topics.
• Strengthen manager and HR capability through tools, guides, templates, issue‑spotting guidance, standard operating procedures and process simplification.
• Use data, technology, and efficient ways of working to improve legal service delivery, identify trends, and reduce workplace risk.

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) and active bar membership;
  California bar membership preferred.
• 7+ years of employment law experience, combining law firm and in‑house experience or advising complex, multi‑state employers.
• Background in employment litigation, agency charges, workplace investigations, compliance audits, policy development, and practical risk management.
• Experience advising on employee relations, performance management, leaves and accommodations, terminations, employment claims, and high‑risk workplace matters.
• Experience supporting large, matrixed, multinational, or high‑growth organizations.
• Experience supporting North America or broader Americas employment matters, including Canada, Costa Rica, and Chile, preferred.
• Translate complex legal concepts into clear, practical guidance for HR partners and business leaders.
• Experience developing training, strengthening manager capability, and improving enterprise processes, and ways of working.

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more. Experian invests in people and new advanced…