Senior Counsel - Labor and Employment

About Us:

Wrapbook is a smart, intuitive platform that makes production payroll and accounting easier, faster, and more secure. We provide a unified payroll platform that seamlessly connects your entire team—production, accounting, cast, and crew—all in one place. Wrapbook empowers production teams to manage projects, pay cast and crew, track expenses, and generate data-driven insights, while enabling workers to manage timecards, track pay, and onboard to new projects from any device. Wrapbook brings clarity and dependability to production payroll, while increasing the productivity of your whole team.

Trusted by companies of all sizes, Wrapbook powers payroll for some of the industry’s top production companies, including SMUGGLER, Tuff, and GhostRobot. Our growing team of 250+ people across the USA and Canada, including entertainment and technology experts from SAG-AFTRA, DGA, IATSE, Teamsters, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and more. Wrapbook is backed by top-tier investors, including Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo, Andreessen Horowitz, and A* Capital. We have raised $130M and are in a strong financial position.

The Opportunity: Senior Counsel - Labor and Employment (Remote - USA)

Are you an experienced attorney with background in labor and employment matters, negotiating, drafting and reviewing customer and vendor contracts, and experience working with engineering and product teams at a tech company? Do you want to join a growing business and use your knowledge and skills to help build out great products, services and tools for the entertainment industry? Are you excited about impacting the trajectory of the project economy? Then this may be the role for you. 

The Senior Counsel will be a member of the Wrapbook Legal team and will play a crucial role providing in-house legal counsel regarding matters across the company, including negotiating, drafting, and reviewing customer and vendor contracts, advising internal teams on labor and employment regulations and best practices that are incorporated into Wrapbook’s platform and offerings as an employer of record, along with support for the People, Labor Relations, Operations, and Tax teams.

What You’ll Do: 

• Provide in-house legal counsel on contract and product-related matters as they relate to Wrapbook’s offerings, its role as an employer of record, along with its corporate employees, which may include, but are not limited to, wage and hour laws, workers’ compensation, labor relations, human resources issues, employee agreements and policy-related issues, employment related litigation, grievances and arbitration, FMLA matters and generally assist the General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel and support the People, Labor Relations, Operations, Tax, and Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) teams.

• Internal lead for handling all claims related to labor and employment matters.

• Supervise, manage and evaluate outside counsel on labor and employment related matters, including litigation.

• Support the EPD team, including by advising on labor, employment, and tax laws and regulations and best practices as they relate to Wrapbook’s platform and offerings as an employer of record.

• Support the People team, including by advising on labor and employment-related matters as they relate to Wrapbook and its workforce.

• Support the Operations and Tax team by advising on labor, employment, and tax (including payroll tax) matters or questions that may arise. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and manage projects with a team-oriented approach.

• Identify and assess legal risks and opportunities within labor and employment and advise accordingly.

• Review, negotiate, and draft agreements with customers and vendors.

• Educate clients and stakeholders on legal matters, policies, and procedures.

• Establish and maintain relationships, credibility, and trust with stakeholders, legal team members and other colleagues.

• Lead and assist the General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel with other legal matters as needed.

What You’ll Have:

• A juris doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.

• Bar certified to practice law in at least one state in the U.S.

• 5+ years experience as a labor and employment attorney with relevant in-house and/or law firm experience.

• Excellent oral and written communications skills.

• An ability to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced environment to drive program and process adoption.

• Keen business sense with strong judgment, advising, negotiation, drafting, and decision-making skills. 

• Ability to prioritize and operate independently and effectively in a dynamic environment.

• Experience developing and driving program and process adoption with cross-functional stakeholders.

• Ability to work efficiently, meet demanding deadlines, and balance multiple tasks in a fast-paced and agile environment.

• Experience as lead for handling claims related to labor and employment matters and experience dealing with CA and NY labor practices a plus.

• Experience/strong interest in working in a start-up environment.

Why Join Us

At Wrapbook, creativity meets technology — and not just in the product.

In addition to a competitive salary and all the benefits you can expect from a fast-growing technology company, you’ll get access to a team of creative problem solvers and the chance to see your contributions make large impacts. Benefits include:

• Unlimited Paid Time Off

• Work from anywhere in Canada and USA

• Health and Dental benefits

• Up to $1500 towards IT set up for your home

• Up to 2% matching RRSP / 401K

• Learning and Development opportunities

• Up to $50 USD/ $66.50 CAD towards Internet/Cell phone service

Our Pledge to Fostering an Inclusive and Safe Workplace:

Wrapbook pledges to be a harassment- and discrimination-free space for everyone, regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, nationality, neurotype, personal appearance, political affiliation, professional background, race, religion, or sexual identity or orientation.

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