Head of Legal and Risk – Part-Time
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Cyber Security
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Drive and deliver pragmatic legal advice for the Asia Pacific region, partnering with teams across Snowflake
- Advise on recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and offboarding processes
- Advise on compensation, benefits, and executive remuneration
- Manage leaves of absence, disability accommodations, and flexible working requests
- Advise on contingent worker and contractor issues
- Develop and implement HR policies and procedures; build scalable, compliant employment programmes
- Support performance management, disciplinary actions, grievances, and internal investigations
- Manage and advise on redundancies and reorganisations; engage with employee representative bodies where applicable
- Draft, negotiate, and enforce employment-related agreements, templates, and forms (employment contracts, consulting agreements, settlement agreements, restrictive covenants)
- Conduct periodic reviews and audits of employment-related policies, processes, and practices
- Assist in managing and resolving employment-related disputes, governmental agency actions, and litigation matters
- Monitor changes and updates to employment laws across the Asia Pacific region and proactively advise on developments
- Report to Snowflake’s Director, Assistant General Counsel - Employment; in-person role based in Sydney, Australia
Requirements
- Ability to pragmatically weigh risks and benefits of complex legal situations and provide clear, commercial advice
- A "can-do" attitude, embracing that no project is too big or too small
- Comfortable thriving in an extremely fast-paced, dynamic, and evolving environment
- Enjoy working with people and forging strong relationships
- Strong experience creating and scaling processes and policies for a rapidly growing company
- JD, LLB, or equivalent degree
- Minimum of 4 years of legal experience with substantive employment law experience
- Law firm experience, in-house experience with a multinational corporation, and/or experience handling employment law issues in the Asia Pacific region preferred
- Proficiency in English is required
- Business-level proficiency in Japanese, Mandarin, or Korean will be considered an advantage
