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Lyft is looking for an Employment Paralegal to join its Legal Team! You will work closely with Lyft’s in-house Employment Legal team and its People/HR team to provide a balanced mixture of project management, analytics, litigation, and administrative support. You should be a self-starter, highly motivated, and able to process direction easily and with a good attitude. Come join the fun at Lyft!

Responsibilities:

• Organize and improve Employment Legal files, build processes and protocols for Employment Legal to reach maximum velocity
• Supports attorneys in managing litigation
• Assist attorneys in developing and updating employment-law related trainings, playbooks, and processes
• Project manages large scale projects
• Conducts legal, business, and/or media research to identify legal and HR trends
• Fields and triages incoming advice and project requests from internal clients and external vendors, and analyze requests to spot internal trends
• Manages and tracks administrative, pre-litigation and litigation matters, as well as external legal requests
• Serve as primary point of contact with Outside Counsel and Lyft’s People Team on e-discovery, witness, and document gathering issues;
• Calendars/dockets response dates
• Provides administrative support on as needed basis to Lyft’s in-house employment attorneys
• Thinks proactively about improving processes to help Lyft’s legal operations continue to scale effectively with incredible growth and partner with the Legal Operations team to implement
• Liaises with other teams within the company and external parties to ensure efficient workflow and handling of requests
• Draft template agreements with assistance of attorneys

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years relevant legal experience (preferably at a technology company) -- which means administrative, legal, operations, project management or other experience requiring attention to detail, event planning and time management
• Interest in employment law and HR issues
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Exceptionally organized, efficient and communicative
• Proficiency working in a Mac environment, and specifically with Google Apps (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, etc.), Dropbox, Excel, Outlook and Word

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 401(k) plan to help save for your future
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $84,000 - $105,000. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.