Senior Legal Counsel - Employment

As a Senior Legal Counsel, Employment, you will be tasked with providing strategic, practical employment legal advice across a global organization. This role will partner closely with the People team and cross-functional stakeholders, with a primary focus on the United States while supporting other jurisdictions outside of the US as needed. 

This is a hybrid role, with in-office collaboration one day per week at our Mountain View, CA office.

What Will You Do?

Primary responsibilities include:

• Act as a trusted advisor on the full employee lifecycle, including complex hiring, performance management, executive compensation, and sensitive terminations.
• Partner closely with the People team and other internal stakeholders to identify, assess, and mitigate employment-related risks.
• Own the development, review, and rollout of employment policies, templates, employee handbooks, practices, and best-in-class frameworks that scale globally while accounting for local requirements, including addressing complex or high-risk matters, sensitive employee issues, and strategic initiatives.
• Lead and take initiative on internal investigations, including employee complaints, workplace conduct matters, and policy violations, and advise on and support any required remediation efforts.
• Leverage data and analytics to track employment trends, manage operational spend, and present clear insights to legal and People leadership, supporting data-driven decision-making across a complex matrix organization.
• Manage outside counsel relationships, including invoice review and approvals, spend monitoring, rate negotiations, and maintaining a matter tracker, to control costs and improve outcomes.

What Skills and Knowledge Will You Bring?

Ideal candidates will have:

• A JD (or an equivalent) with 8+ years of employment law experience, including significant in-house experience
• Familiarity with and experience advising on key employment law frameworks such as non-competes, separations, disability claims, and hiring practices (including background checks and pay transparency)
• Well-grounded knowledge of US employment law
• Comfort working with data: building metrics, spotting trends, and presenting clear, concise insights to senior leaders
• Sales Compensation Experience: Practical experience drafting, reviewing, and resolving disputes around sales incentive/commission plans, including state and local wage-and-hour compliance (e.g., earning rules, draws, clawbacks, and payouts upon separation).
• Executive Compensation Exposure: Familiarity with structuring executive employment agreements, equity arrangements, retention packages, and severance terms.
• Sound and practical business judgment
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage a high-volume workload in a fast-paced and demanding work environment, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A bias and drive for action, learning and problem solving
• High responsiveness with a service-focused approach
• Both a collaborative teammate and able to work independently
• Preferred: 4+ years of in-house experience at a technology company
• Preferred: Experience advising on employment matters across multiple jurisdictions, ideally including APJ and Israel
• Preferred: Experience advising on sales commission plans and other sales compensation matters
• Preferred: Familiarity with employee benefit plans and related compliance
• Preferred: Experience with the employment side of M&A, integrations, and restructurings
• Preferred: Experience with AI tools to streamline research, analyze data trends, and scale legal support across a growing global team

Why SentinelOne?

AI is redefining how the world operates and rewriting the rules of security in real time, and SentinelOne was built for this moment. From day one, we architected an AI-native platform designed to operate at machine speed, not as an add-on to legacy systems but as the foundation itself. If you want to build where innovation and impact move together, this is that place.

We invest in our Sentinels with comprehensive, competitive benefits designed to support you and your family:

Equity & Rewards

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Time Off & Wellbeing

• Flexible time off
• Paid company holidays and paid sick time
• Gender-neutral parental leave
• Grandparent leave

Insurance & Financial Security

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Life and disability insurance
• Health and dependent care FSA
• Voluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• ARAG pre-paid legal
• Nationwide pet insurance
• Cancer Care program
• Global business travel medical insurance

Work Perks & Flexibility

• Home office allowance
• Mobile phone reimbursement

Wellness & Lifestyle

• Wellness coach
• Wellness/gym reimbursement
• Fertility coverage
• Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement

Base Salary Range 211600 - 290950 USD