The recruiting company, Kraken, is enabling people to experience the potentially life-changing potential of cryptocurrencies, as one of the biggest and most reliable digital asset networks worldwide. The brand’s distinctive offering of goods, services, and world-class knowledge is tipping the scales in favor of widespread cryptocurrency usage and is trusted by over 8 million amateur and professional traders, institutions, and authorities worldwide. In the blockchain space, Kraken aims to lead the way and improve the daily lives of billions of people.
In this entirely remote job, Kraken is seeking an Employment and Labor Paralegal, who will report to Senior Counsel, Employment and Labor, and will play an essential part in creating, fostering, and executing both operational and strategic initiatives. Such will collaborate with teams from different departments, like litigation, corporate and commercial, to optimize the company experience and defend Kraken’s reputation, along with supporting Kraken’s employment lawyers.
Responsibilities
- Help Senior Employment Counsel with administrative and legal duties, including working on specific cases, issues, or projects.
- Assist Senior Employment Counsel with preparing for internal and external investigations, depositions, hearings, and settlement conferences.
- Write letters to prospective external counsel, attorneys, administrative agencies, courts, and third parties in connection with hiring and consulting agreements.
- Create and submit pleadings, such as the first versions of discovery requests and replies.
- Review evidence and documents manually and electronically.
- Conduct legal studies on labor laws, regulations, and case law in the US and abroad.
- Reach organizational objectives by taking responsibility for new and different requests; looking for ways to improve work results, and Labor and Employment practice goals.
- Prepare meeting materials, such as PowerPoint presentations, and arrange conference calls and online meetings.
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience working as a paralegal in a cross-functional legal team, with a strong emphasis on employment, or as an international labor and employment paralegal
- Expertise with employee investigations and agency charges (EEOC, Civil Rights)
- Knowledge of important US employment laws including EEO, FMLA, ADA, and ADEA is required, as is an understanding of US state laws, non-US laws, and data privacy.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively.
- Capability to accept direction and operate autonomously with minimal or no oversight
- Strong organizational skills and keen attention to detail
- A solid sense of urgency, as well as the capacity to execute duties promptly
- Ability to prioritize and organize numerous conflicting tasks to meet deadlines and organizational demands
- Versatility, adaptability, and eagerness to work in a company with continuously shifting priorities and deadlines
- Ability to keep a high level of discretion and confidentiality
- Excellent IT abilities (Kraken is a remote-first company)
- Experience working on non-US or global initiatives is preferred.