Director, Legal Counsel- Employment Litigation

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together. 

This position is on the litigation team in the Risk and Regulatory Legal Group. RiskReg is also affectionately, colloquially and unofficially known as the flagship of Schwab's Legal Department. Schwab’s litigation team is a group of exceptionally gifted lawyers and support professionals primarily responsible for defending legal claims against Schwab and protecting Schwab’s rights. The team provides world-class strategic legal direction and is cohesive, tightly knit, and values collaboration and culture. 

As a Director Legal Counsel-Employment Litigation, you will join this team and handle employment and labor-related claims against the company, from their inception to their resolution. Your responsibilities will include: 

• Litigation: Lead, supervise, manage, and litigate labor and employment cases, including the most complex and challenging matters. Responsibilities include conducting research; factual investigation and discovery; interviewing witnesses; drafting pleadings and submissions; negotiating with opposing counsel; and appearing in proceedings on behalf of Schwab. 
• Providing strategic direction: Lead and guide the firm’s strategic approach toward case management, trial preparation, and representation on labor and employment matters.
• Counseling and collaborating: Work across the legal department and with business counterparts and corporate affairs to ensure transparency and alignment; proactively identify risks and recommend mitigation strategies; and lead and conduct training for legal, compliance, and business teams. 
• Leading: Supervise, manage, and direct outside counsel, ensuring that case assessment, strategy, and execution are aligned with Schwab’s vision and objectives. 
• Learning: Continuously expand your knowledge and skills to best advise on issues essential to Schwab’s business strategy. 
• Having fun: Culture is vital to us! You’ll be joining a terrific team and some of the best professionals in the industry. While this is serious work, we don’t take ourselves too seriously. 
• Other duties as otherwise assigned: IYKYK. And when you’re a litigator, you know that it’s impossible to capture everything that goes into trial or litigation in a simple job description.

What you have

To ensure that we fulfill our promise of “challenging the status quo,” this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required qualifications:

• A law degree (JD, LLB or equivalent) from an accredited US law school.
• Admission to and in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar. 
• Minimum of eight years of experience as a practicing attorney in-house, at a law firm, or with the government. 
• Five years of experience leading labor- and employment-related litigation and advisory matters.

Preferred qualifications: 

• Strategic, practical, and creative insights with excellent emotional intelligence and outstanding client relationship management and negotiation skills.
• Extraordinary interpersonal and communication skills and excellence at communicating information effectively internally and externally, including to non-legal audiences.
• Excellent judgment and comfort making critical decisions under challenging circumstances and compressed timelines.
• Comfort with people – from the most senior executive leaders to folks that have never talked to a lawyer before — and being equally at home in a conference room, a board room, a virtual meeting, or a courtroom.
• Confidence and decisiveness.
• A love for challenges and solving problems, taking pride in your work, and finding joy in the process. 

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities