• Lead and grow a global employment legal team spread across the US and the UK.

• Act as the lead legal counsel to company and legal leadership on complex employment matters and policy interpretation.

• Direct legal execution for complex employee relations issues, including executive performance, reorganizations, and critical litigation.

• Drive global employment risk management by shaping policies and compliance initiatives that support a fast-paced AI research environment.

• Oversee the legal approach to high-profile internal investigations involving misconduct or policy violations.

The Deep Mind Legal team provides expert legal counsel to accelerate our research. As the Head of Employment Legal, you will work closely with executive leadership, the broader legal team, and our people and culture team. You will balance legal, cultural, and business demands to deliver practical, solutions-focused advice that enables our global operations.

In this role, you will advise on complex employment-related legal issues across our worldwide operations, working closely with HR and employee relations, outside counsel, and central Google teams to direct legal support in jurisdictions where we do not have an internal team presence.

Artificial intelligence will be one humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google Deep Mind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

• JD, LL.B., equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.

• 15 years of attorney-level experience in government, in-house, or at a law firm.

• Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status) in the state in which the position is located.