Head of Legal and Employee Relations

With 100 Billion+ minutes streamed annually, 120 minutes of daily average listening time, and 6 Billion+ total audio plays on our platform, Pocket FM is on a mission to build the world’s largest AI-powered audio streaming platform.

What sets us apart? We’re an AI-first company, leveraging cutting-edge generative AI to transform every part of our ecosystem—from content creation and language localization to marketing, distribution, and monetization. Our in-house AI has already powered 10% of US revenue and is listening through original, AI-generated audio series. We’re also expanding into new storytelling formats like comics and web novels, all built on the foundation of our proprietary AI platforms.

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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Manager / Senior Manager for the Employment Law and Legal Compliance vertical across key jurisdictions, with a strong focus on India, EU and the United States.

This role will drive strategy creation and implementation from a legal and regulatory compliance perspective, support employment categorization related exercise in accordance with local laws, provide advisory both from an employment law as well as regulatory compliance perspective, implement / monitor / fulfil the local law regulatory compliances in a timely manner through internal as well as external stakeholders, data privacy related exposure will be an added advantage. We are looking for someone who will have deep technical expertise, leadership experience, and a commercial mindset to balance compliance with business enablement.

What will you do?

Employment Law & HR Compliance

• Advise on employment law matters including hiring, onboarding, employee relations, terminations, and workplace policies.
• Draft, review, and update employment contracts, handbooks, and internal policies in line with evolving legislation.
• Partner with HR to design compliant and practical procedures for performance management, diversity & inclusion, whistleblowing, and grievances.
• Manage responses to employee complaints, investigations, and coordinate with external counsel where necessary.
• Oversee and advise on the classification parameters used to distinguish between employees’ v / s contractors that are applicable in the geographies that the Company operates in to ensure that there is no misclassification risk for the Company.
• Able to manage cross-jurisdictional litigation in an effective manner and provide updates to the management and the board as requested.

Regulatory Compliance & Governance

Cross-Functional Advisory

What we are looking for