Director, and Compliance

BambooHR is seeking an experienced employment attorney to join our Legal leadership team as Director, Employment & Compliance. This role is equal parts employment lawyer, HR compliance leader, company wide senior strategic advisor, and cheer captain. You’ll lead BambooHR’s employment-law and HR-compliance work, oversee the team responsible for day-to-day HR compliance and compliance-audit activities, advise teams across BambooHR on employment compliance requirements, and play a senior leadership role in Bamboo Trust, our enterprise-wide trust, risk, and compliance effort.

You’ll also help BambooHR develop a distinctive voice on employment law and HR compliance, serving as a thought leader both inside the company and externally. We’re looking for someone with serious legal chops who can make complicated things understandable, exercise excellent judgment, and move important work forward with high standards and low friction. Joie de vivre and a spirit of fun and/or whimsy are strongly preferred.

Fealty to our mission and values is non-negotiable.

• Lead and develop a team of experienced legal and compliance professionals.
• Establish priorities, operating rhythms, and clear accountability for the Employment & Compliance function.
• Coach and develop team members, providing substantive guidance while enabling appropriate autonomy and ownership.
• Recruit, develop, evaluate, and retain high-performing team members.
• Foster strong collaboration across Legal, Human Resources, and partner functions.
• Ensure the team operates with high standards, sound judgment, appropriate urgency, and collegiality.

• Serve as a senior in-house subject matter expert on employment law, providing practical, business-oriented counsel on employment laws, regulations, employee relations matters, and employment practices across applicable jurisdictions.
• Partner closely with Human Resources and Employee Relations on complex employee matters, including internal investigations, workplace concerns, accommodations, leaves, discipline, and terminations.
• Counsel senior leaders on complex and sensitive employment matters, balancing legal risk, business objectives, employee experience, and BambooHR’s values.
• Manage employment disputes, claims, administrative proceedings, and litigation, engaging and directing outside counsel as appropriate.
• Identify emerging employment-law risks and translate legal developments into clear, actionable guidance for leaders and teams across BambooHR.
• Serve as an internal and external thought leader on employment law through appropriate company and industry engagement, speaking, writing, education, or other opportunities.

• Lead the team responsible for BambooHR’s day-to-day HR compliance and compliance-audit work, establishing priorities, standards, and accountability for the function.
• Build and continuously improve scalable employment compliance practices across multiple states and, as needed, support international growth.
• Own the annual production, review, and rollout of BambooHR’s employee handbook, partnering with Human Resources and other stakeholders to keep it current, practical, accessible, and aligned with applicable employment requirements.
• Oversee employment compliance monitoring, testing, audits, remediation, and related operational processes, ensuring identified issues have clear owners and are addressed effectively.
• Advise Product, Engineering, and customer-facing teams on HR compliance requirements, helping teams understand how HR compliance requirements affect BambooHR’s business, products, services, and customer interactions.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to translate HR compliance requirements into practical…