Job Description
Join Our Dynamic Team as a Vice President of Legal!
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Position: Vice President of Legal
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Location: Rancho Cordova, CA or Irvine, CA; remote may be considered
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Job Type: Full-time Exempt
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Salary: $200,000 to $280,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications
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Travel: Approximately 25% per month
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Who We Are:
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EmployInsure engineers Employment Operating Systems (EmOS) designed to solve employment problems for our customers. Our mission is to eliminate “do it yourself employment,” where businesses are forced to piece together a tangle of vendors and contracts, and replace it with our EmOS.
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Our diverse team is powered by rapid problem-solvers and innovators. We are committed to scaling the company through data, automation, and process improvement. We stay adaptable and agile, built to navigate an employment landscape that shifts constantly.
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EmployInsure is the parent company of Samuel Hale, focused on client relationships for our permanent workforce, and Evoove, focused on our contingent workforce, both brands working in exclusive partnership with the PACT. To learn more about our family of companies, check out our websites!
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Our Core Values:
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- Entrepreneurial Spirit: A mindset that involves seeking out change, taking risks, and pursuing new opportunities.
- Quest for a Deeper Understanding: A true professional never stops getting better at their craft. They practice, measure, and debate over their understanding of the truth, embodying a growth mindset.
- The Stockdale Paradox: We confront the brutal honesty of our current reality while always maintaining an unwavering faith in our ability to overcome all challenges that get in our way. We have toughness, determination, and passionate belief!
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Key Responsibilities:
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The Vice President of Legal leads the legal function across the EmployInsure family of companies, managing employment practices liability matters, the contract lifecycle, collections, corporate litigation, and the legal department team, while serving as a strategic legal advisor to executive leadership. EmployInsure operates with the pace of a startup inside an established company: business and product strategy shift as new insurance and staffing products are engineered and launched, and this role is expected to reprioritize legal work in step with those shifts.
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Employment Practices & Labor Relations: Manage intake and triage of EPL claims, oversee outside employment counsel on active matters, advise on return-to-work, PAGA, and wrongful termination matters, draft employment policies, support HR-led workplace investigations, and administer collective bargaining agreements covering represented worksite employee groups.
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Contracts: Review and redline contracts returned from clients’ counsel and business partners; draft and maintain contracts across all entities within the EmployInsure family of companies; manage the full contract lifecycle, including tracking, renewals, version control, and execution.
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Collections: Prepare demand letters and manage collection lawsuits; manage outside counsel on collection matters; report on collection status and payments on current outstanding matters.
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Corporate Litigation Management: Manage outside counsel on corporate litigation matters.
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Team Management: Supervise legal department staff, including workload assignment and prioritization; review and approve work product; train, mentor, and evaluate direct reports; participate in recruiting and onboarding of legal department personnel.
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Corporate Legal Strategy: Oversee entity formation, maintenance, governance, and corporate records across all entities; advise executive leadership on legal risk, business initiatives, and major transactions; monitor legal and legislative developments and advise on compliance posture; partner with the Risk Department on insurance coverage and enterprise legal risk assessment; set legal department priorities, processes, and standards.
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Basic Qualifications:
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Juris Doctor from an accredited law school; active membership in good standing with the State Bar of California.
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- 8+ years of legal experience, with substantial employment law practice (including PAGA and EPL defense) and commercial contracts experience.
- Experience managing outside counsel and supervising legal staff.
- Experience in the Staffing, PEO, or insurance industries required, given the co-employment and joint employer liability specific to this business model.
- Experience with multi-state employment law compliance, or willingness to engage and coordinate with local counsel in jurisdictions outside California.
- Familiarity with Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes for workers' compensation claims, particularly in California.
- Strong drafting, negotiation, and judgment; ability to counsel executives directly.
- Demonstrated ability to reprioritize legal work quickly as business and product strategy shifts, gained in a startup or fast-scaling company environment.
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We Offer a Best-in-Class Professional Benefits Package to Support our Employees:
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- Healthcare coverage: Medical, dental, and vision plans: Employees are 100% covered by the company. Low deductibles for spouse/partner and dependents
- Paid Time Off: Unlimited paid time off policy and paid holidays
- Profit Sharing Plan: Share in the success of the company
- Retirement Savings Plans: 401(k) with a 5% company match to help you secure your financial future
- Lifetime pension plan: Vest into our defined benefit pension plan for a lifetime income
- Wellness Support: Access to wellness programs, mental health resources, financial counseling, legal support, and employee assistance programs.
- Death Benefits: Company-paid to protect you and your loved ones.
- Exclusive Perks: Employee discounts, Babble Language Learning, and more.
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Join us and experience a benefits package designed to empower your well-being, career growth, and personal goals!
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Samuel Hale is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, gender identity, gender expression, sex/gender, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, use of a guide dog or service animal, military/veteran status, citizenship status, basis of genetic information, or any other group protected by law.
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Samuel Hale is an E-Verify company. For more information, please review our Participation and Your Right to Work.
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California Privacy Notice for Job Applicants If you are a California resident, we collect and use the personal information you provide in your application for recruiting, hiring, and compliance purposes in accordance with the CCPA/CPRA. We do not sell or share applicant personal information as those terms are defined by law. For details about what we collect, how we use it, and your privacy rights, please review our California Applicant & Employee Privacy Notice at https://samuelhale.com/ccpa-cpra/ or contact us at HR@TheTubins.com.