The Adecco Group - Sr Counsel

About the role

Senior Corporate Counsel is a senior individual contributor providing legal expertise within one or more assigned subject matter areas, which may include Commercial Transactions, Employment, Litigation, Compliance, Risk, Privacy, or M&A. This role independently manages complex matters and contributes to strategic initiatives without primary responsibility for people management.

What you’ll be doing

• Provides legal advice on complex, high impact matters, including analyzing novel legal issues, evaluating multi jurisdictional regulatory requirements, assessing litigation exposure and settlement postures, and delivering actionable risk assessments to senior business stakeholders.

• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates sophisticated agreements and legal instruments, including master services agreements, software licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, data processing agreements, joint venture agreements, intellectual property assignments and licenses, supply agreements, distribution agreements, settlement agreements, separation agreements, and corporate transaction documents.

• Advises business stakeholders on legal risk and mitigation strategies, including providing guidance on contract structures, regulatory compliance requirements, employment practices, intellectual property protection, data privacy obligations, and the legal implications of new products, services, or market entry decisions.

• Supports Managing Counsel and Head of Counsel on strategic initiatives, including contributing to the development of legal policies, contract playbooks, compliance programs, training curricula, and process improvement projects.

• Mentors Corporate Counsel as appropriate, including reviewing work product, providing substantive legal feedback on contract redlines and legal memoranda, sharing institutional knowledge, and modeling effective client communication and negotiation techniques.

• Manages outside counsel on assigned matters, including selecting and retaining counsel within approved panel firms, defining scope of engagement, reviewing and approving work product, monitoring adherence to billing guidelines and budgets, and ensuring strategic alignment with internal legal objectives.

• Negotiates non standard commercial terms and amendments, including deviations from approved contract positions on indemnification, limitation of liability, warranty, intellectual property ownership and licensing, data security and privacy, insurance, termination, and dispute resolution provisions, and prepares risk summaries documenting the business justification and legal exposure associated with approved deviations.

• Manages assigned litigation, agency actions, or investigations, including developing and executing case strategy, overseeing fact investigation and document collection, managing discovery (including e discovery) and privilege review, preparing witnesses for depositions and hearings, evaluating damages exposure and settlement ranges, coordinating with outside counsel on motion practice and trial preparation, and responding to EEOC charges, DOL inquiries, OSHA citations, and state agency complaints.

• Conducts legal analysis for M&A, restructuring, or enterprise initiatives, including performing contract level due diligence (reviewing change of control provisions, assignment and anti assignment clauses, consent requirements, and material adverse change triggers), analyzing target company employment arrangements (offer letters, severance plans, restrictive covenants, benefit obligations), identifying regulatory approvals or filings required for transaction closing (HSR, industry specific licenses), and drafting or negotiating representations, warranties, and indemnification provisions in transaction agreements.

• Advises on regulatory compliance and risk mitigation, including conducting compliance assessments, interpreting new or amended statutes and regulations, drafting or revising internal policies and procedures to address legal requirements, supporting internal audits and investigations, and advising on remediation strategies for identified compliance deficiencies.

About you

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) and active license to practice law.

• 6–8+ years legal experience, including demonstrated depth in at least one core practice area such as commercial transactions, employment law, litigation, regulatory compliance, data privacy, intellectual property, or mergers and acquisitions.

• Proven ability to operate independently on complex matters, including a track record of managing multiple concurrent matters with minimal supervision, exercising sound legal judgment under time pressure, and delivering practical, business‑oriented legal advice.

Why choose us?

It’s an exciting time to be part of our team. We’re proud to be a global thought-leader and care about doing the best job we can to ensure better futures for everyone. We do this by building our Future@Work strategy as a united team of 30,000+ colleagues with a collective spirit working in over 60 countries globally. You’ll have the opportunity to grow across a variety of interesting jobs and careers over our extensive portfolio of global brands. We empower our colleagues to work in the smartest, most efficient ways to achieve total balance between the demands of their jobs and their lives. That’s why we give you the autonomy and support you need to work in the way that makes you most productive, agile, confident, and insightful. Putting people first, pioneering with a collective spirit and always advancing with a growth mindset -that’s what we stand for at the Adecco Group. Here, we are all individuals with a unique perspective on the world we live in. That’s what makes us stronger. Whoever you are and whatever your background, you can be yourself. So, we aim to build on the attributes that make you, you. We offer a range of world-class resources for upskilling and development, satisfying your curiosity while the sharing skills, knowledge, and expertise to grow together.

Make an impact where it matters most.

A journey to bring out the best in you

We believe that having an understanding of the hiring process helps you to prepare, feel, and be, at your best. As a global, multi brand organization with multiple different roles, our application process can vary. On our career site, you will find some of the key steps you can expect to guide you along the way. As one of the world’s largest employers we believe in talent, not labels, and focus on the diverse and unique skills our people bring. We seek to foster a culture of belonging and purpose, an environment where everyone can thrive and feel engaged, and where difference is respected and valued. Our commitment to equity, equal opportunity, inclusion, and diversity is part of our broader commitment to respecting fundamental human rights across our value chain. The Adecco Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to https://www.adeccogroup.com/privacy-policy/candidate-privacy-information-statement-en The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act

• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $132,067 - $242,124. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, experience, education, key skills, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the position is also eligible for incentive compensation based on achievements outlined in the compensation plan. Benefit offerings for full-time employment include medical, dental, vision, term life and AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits, wellness plans, and a 401k plan or a non-qualified deferred compensation plan. Available paid leave includes Personal Time Off (PTO) on an accrual basis up to 152 hours a year, 10 Paid Holidays, 1 Community Service Day, and up to 6 weeks of Paid Parental Leave. PTO and holiday hours are prorated based on hire date within the calendar year.

Posting date: 09-15-2026