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Are you looking for a work environment which encourages teamwork and where you are respected, supported, challenged, and can grow and advance your career? If your answer is “yes,” you should join T-Mobile’s All-Star Legal Team!
This role is a Hybrid in-office position in Bellevue, WA, or Overland Park, KS.
This attorney, working in the Legal Affairs Department, will represent T-Mobile and provide counsel to business units and Human Resources on employment and labor-related legal matters, with a focus on the Retail line of business; prepare and review legal documents including pleadings, briefs, position statements and other filings in pre-litigation and litigation, with a focus on employment arbitrations); and assist with other matters as needed.
What you’ll do in your role.
- Provide practical, day-to-day, employment-law counseling to HR and other internal clients to identify and manage employment legal risks.
- Engage and work with outside counsel to manage employment litigation (primarily employment-law arbitrations) and administrative proceedings with a focus on creative strategies, cost reduction, and efficient resolutions.
- Prepare responses to agency charges and demand letters.
- Develop and review written HR policies, guidelines, templates, and forms.
- Develop and deliver legal training to HR and other internal clients.
- Provide employment law advice regarding internal investigations.
- Advise and help clients understand employment-law compliance issues.
- Counsel and advise clients on a wide variety of complex and developing employment-related legal and business issues.
The experience you’ll bring.
- 2- 4+ years of experience as an employment attorney, with relevant in-house and/or top law firm experience
- Minimum 4 years, prefer 6+ years, of experience handling litigation involving discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and other employment-related claims, with a focus on employment arbitrations.
- Prefer some exposure to one or more of the following areas: international employment law, labor relations, or ERISA.
- Ability to work independently and effectively despite ambiguity and rapid change.
- Excellent writing skills, with a focus on providing practical advice.
- Amazing oral communication skills, with a focus on clearly and simply conveying complex employment law concepts, risks, and options to HR and other internal clients.
- Strong judgement that allows you to properly weigh what’s best for our customers and our business, what’s best for our employees, and potential legal risks
- Strong project management skills
- A demonstrated ability to collaborate with other legal and business professionals in a complex organization with a focus on delivering results efficiently.
- A keen business sense with negotiation and drafting skills
- Ability to work efficiently, meet demanding deadlines, and balance multiple, and sometimes competing, priorities.
- Must be licensed, in good standing, to practice law in the US.
- At least 18 years of age
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
Travel: Travel Required (Yes/No): No
DOT Regulated: DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No): No Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No): No
Base Pay Range: $123,200 - $222,200
Corporate Bonus Target: 15%
The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate’s actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.
At T-Mobile, employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee’s eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location, https://paylookup.t-mobile.com/paylookup?reqID=REQ342846¶dox=1
At T-Mobile, our benefits exemplify the spirit of One Team, Together! A big part of how we care for one another is working to ensure our benefits evolve to meet the needs of our team members. Full and part-time employees have access to the same benefits when eligible. We cover all of the bases, offering medical, dental and vision insurance, a flexible spending account, 401(k), employee stock grants, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays - which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually - paid parental and family leave, family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, childcare subsidy, tuition assistance, college coaching, short- and long-term disability, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, and voluntary long-term care insurance. We don't stop there - eligible employees can also receive mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and access to commuter and transit programs! To learn about T-Mobile’s amazing benefits, check out _www.t-mobilebenefits.com_.
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