Assistant General Counsel, Employment (Senior Director)

Quick Facts

• Role: Assistant General Counsel, Employment (Senior Director)

• Focus: Employment law compliance and employment risk across a global, multi-brand portfolio

Description

Serve as a primary legal advisor on workforce matters, ensuring compliance with evolving federal, state, and local employment laws. You will provide strategic guidance to leadership on high-stakes employment issues, handle agency-related matters and ADR claims, and help modernize employment risk management across the employee lifecycle. This is a high-visibility role partnering closely with People & Culture, Risk Management, and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Track and ensure compliance with evolving federal, state, and local employment law; translate changes into compliant policies, manuals, agreements, and SOPs
• Advise on legal risk across hiring, performance, discipline, and terminations; produce and report employment risk metrics
• Identify systemic risk trends and recommend proactive legal/policy changes for wage & hour, benefits, and leave-of-absence issues
• Partner with People & Culture and Employee Relations on harassment, hostile work environment, discrimination, retaliation, disability accommodations, and leave
• Draft agency position statements (e.g., EEOC) and respond to pre-mediation, pre-arbitration, and pre-litigation demand letters
• Manage employment claims asserted under the company’s ADR Program and help evolve that program
• Lead an annual audit to keep job descriptions, offer letters, employment agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, executive arrangements, and separation agreements legally current
• Partner on training for people managers (terminations, performance management, harassment prevention)
• Leverage AI-assisted analysis, legal research, and drafting tools to improve legal operations

Requirements

• JD from an accredited law school
• Admitted to New York or at least one U.S. state bar
• 10+ years of employment law experience (ideally 3–5 years in an employment law firm and 2–3 years in-house at a large, multi-state employer)
• Deep knowledge of federal, state, and local employment law, including wage & hour, discrimination, leave, accommodations, and workforce restructuring
• Track record managing employment claims and EEOC/agency matters
• Strong business instincts and ability to provide actionable guidance
• Exceptional written and verbal communication; able to explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers
• Strong interpersonal skills advising senior executives and People & Culture leadership
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with experience managing a varied, fast-moving docket
• Comfort using AI-assisted legal research and drafting tools (e.g., Claude or similar)
• Legal right to work in the United States

Benefits

• Competitive salary, benefits, and industry-leading commission opportunities for club employees
• Complimentary club membership
• Perks and incentives with products and services including Personal Training, Pilates, Spa, and Shop