Denver, Colorado
Camden, New Jersey
Posted: 14-May-26
Location: United States - Nationwide
Type: Full Time
Salary: $144,100 - $260,000
Categories:
Required Education:
Internal Number: REQ351556
*** This position can sit in Bellevue, WA or Overland Park, KS ***
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Are you looking for a work environment which encourages teamwork and where you are respected, supported, challenged, and can grow and advance your career? If your answer is “yes,” you should join T-Mobile’s All-Star Legal Team!
This role is a Hybrid in-office position in Bellevue, WA, or Overland Park, Kansas
This attorney, working in the Legal Affairs Department, will lead employment-law advice for T-Mobile’s growing international operations, including advising on international employment structures, drafting employment contracts and other policies, advising on personnel issues and terminations, and supporting new-country expansions. The role will regularly interact with senior executives in T-Mobile’s HR and business lines and will coordinate with other members of the legal department to develop integrated advice.
What you’ll do in your role.
- Advise HR and business clients on international employment structures, expansion plans, and international integrations.
- Manage complex outside counsel arrangements across 15+ jurisdictions, ensuring high-quality, practical advice
- Oversee international employment pre-litigation and litigation disputes
- Develop streamlined international employment law policies, practices, and strategies to minimize legal risks
- Draft and review employment agreements for international hires, independent contractors, and consultants
- Support compliance with visa, immigration, and work authorization requirements outside the US
- Advise on international employee transitions, retention strategies, and integration post-acquisition
- Deliver training to HR and business units regarding international employment laws and international employment norms
- Coordinate with other members of the legal team on overlapping areas, such as the Code of Business conduct and background checks
- Direct more junior employment team members working on lower-level international employment work, such as day-to-day international counseling and investigations
The experience you’ll bring.
- 7+ years of experience as an employment attorney, with relevant in-house and/or top law firm experience
- 7+ years of experience handling international employment law issues
- Ability to work independently and effectively despite ambiguity and rapid change
- Excellent writing skills, with a focus on providing practical advice
- Awesome oral communication skills, with a focus on clearly and simply conveying complex employment law concepts, risks, and options to HR and other internal clients
- Strong judgement that allows you to properly weigh what’s best for our customers and our business, what’s best for our employees, and potential legal risks
- Strong project management skills
- A demonstrated ability to collaborate with other legal and business professionals in a complex organization with a focus on delivering results efficiently
- A keen business sense with strong judgment, negotiation, drafting, and decision-making skills
- Ability to work efficiently, meet demanding deadlines, and balance multiple, and sometimes competing, priorities
- Must be licensed, in good standing, to practice law in the US
