Senior Counsel, Employment

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

About the Team:   

Relativity Space’s Legal team is nimble and entrepreneurial, filled with collaborative team players with deep domain expertise dedicated to each other’s and the company’s success. The team sits at the epicenter of business activities and decision-making and is responsible for identifying and managing risks across the organization to ensure Relativity is adequately protected through its rapid growth. Team members manage the full suite of legal and regulatory issues, including intellectual property, employment, licensing, procurement, government contracting, vendor and customer contracts, trade compliance, corporate transactions, and governance, among other business-enabling responsibilities. Unique to Relativity’s fast-paced, high-growth environment, the team works across many departments to support Relativity's ambitious goals. Additionally, the company is in a formative phase, with enough structure to build from and still plenty of room for you to define what’s next. If you want to be on the front lines of a rapidly evolving commercial space industry, Relativity is the place for you.

As the second member of the Employment Legal Team and reporting into Relativity Space’s Assistant General Counsel and Head of Employee Relations, the Senior Counsel, Employment, will be a strategic partner to Relativity’s People Team and other business stakeholders.  The ideal candidate will work cross-functionally with the People team and the business to advise on all legal aspects of the employee lifecycle while also creating scalable employment policies, processes, templates, and training. We are looking for a strategic thinker with an entrepreneurial mindset who can take into account the business implications of legal decisions. 

About the Role:

We are looking for significant California and federal employment law experience.  While the position is an in-office role preferred in our Long Beach, California locations, qualified candidates within commutable distance to our Cape Canaveral, Florida and Stennis, Mississippi physical locations are encouraged to apply.

• Provide pro-active advice and counsel to the People Team and business in various areas of employment law, including but not limited to: performance management, hiring, wage and hour, terminations, adverse actions, leave management, safety, compensation, employee mobility, contractor/temporary worker management, and diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI). 
• Provide additional support and/or advice to the Employee Relations function on investigations, employment complaints and misconduct, and HR compliance activities, including but not limited to employee handbook updates and OFCCP compliance.
• Draft, revise, and negotiate employment-related agreements (including offer letters, contingent worker/independent contractor agreements, confidentiality and intellectual property agreements, and separation agreements).
• Develop and conduct company-wide and department-specific employment training, education and tools.
• Undertake project-based work cross-functionally to enhance company-wide employment law compliance.
• Support the development of HR processes, policies and procedures to keep pace with necessary growth and scaling.

About You:

• JD and membership in good standing with at least one US State Bar (