Litigation and Employment (Legal Lead) - Unlisted 12/6/21
San Francisco, CA
G&A – Legal /
Full-time /
Forward is on a bold mission to make high-quality healthcare available to a billion people across the globe. We’re building the world’s most advanced healthcare platform from the ground up, combining hardware, software, and doctors under one roof.
Forward was founded in January 2016 by former executives and engineering leaders from Google and Uber. We are funded by some of the world's best investors and entrepreneurs, including Founder's Fund, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Eric Schmidt (Google/Alphabet Chairman), Marc Benioff (Salesforce Founder), Joe Lonsdale (Palantir Founder), and Garrett Camp (Uber co-Founder).
Press and Videos:
Health Moves Forward [CEO Blog Post]
Forward Health Launched CarePods [Tech Crunch]
We have a national footprint and multifaceted staffing model, and are looking for a well-rounded employment attorney to join us and help us continue to grow. You will be one of the first lawyers to join the team and will have the opportunity to learn, create, build, have fun, and make a difference.
You Will:
- Be the key partner for the People and offsite staffing teams, helping them build and execute Forward’s policies, approaches, and strategies on all aspects of employment.
- Own the breadth of legal issues surrounding staffing at Forward - including maintaining our culture, worker classification, wage and hour, pay equity, COVID considerations, workplace investigations, DEI&B, and more.
- Own various litigation matters. You won’t be the only litigator on the team, but you will be responsible for all employment-related litigation matters and will be on the list of teammates who will take responsibility for non-employment litigation.
- Work alongside our general counsel to solve high-priority challenges and scale the company. You’ll manage the employment function but will have an impact across the company both related to and more broadly than employment.
- Be a legal ambassador. Share the mission of legal, inspire people to work with legal, and field and clarify questions from people across Forward.
You Are:
- An employment law generalist: You know a lot about a lot of things in employment, and are comfortable diving into new challenges.
- Process and metrics oriented: You’ve got a metric for everything, and you consider ad hoc approaches your enemy. You break down ideas, projects, and problems into components and create logical progressions through those components.
- Collaborative: Your impact is much greater because people like working with you and do more for you.
- Entrepreneurial: You’re a self-starter who works independently with little supervision. You drive projects forward.
- Mission-driven: Our ultimate goal is to help others by bringing them access to better care. We want to bring people on board who share that passion and drive and are motivated to help us get there.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Active membership in a state bar, CA preferred
- At least 5-8 years of experience practicing as an attorney, with the bulk of your time focused on employment-related work
Preferred Qualifications:
- In house experience
- Startup experience
- Work experience other than as an attorney
- Interest in tech
WHY JOIN FORWARD?
We don’t want to just move dollars around the healthcare industry - we want to rebuild it and fix it. All of it. You’d be a major part of the story behind one of the most ambitious startup attempts of the past decade and you’d work with a team of people who want to use their talents for good.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
We deeply understand the value of bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and we prioritize diversity within our team. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.
We are an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We conform to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Information collected and processed as part of any job application you choose to submit is subject to Forward’s Privacy Notice to California Job Applicants.
