Quantinuum is seeking an experienced employment attorney to join its global Legal team as Vice President, Legal — Employment in our Broomfield, CO location. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, this leader will establish and lead the employment-law function, serving as Quantinuum’s senior employment-law advisor and an established partner to the People team, executive leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders across the company. This is a hands-on role that requires the leader to set strategy while also directly drafting, advising, solving problems, and driving execution on day-to-day employment-law matters. This role requires meaningful public company experience, significant employment litigation experience, practical and decisive legal advice, a strong sense of urgency, and the ability to build scalable policies, processes, and guidance that support Quantinuum’s continued growth as a global, public technology company at the forefront of quantum computing.
Quantinuum seeks an outstanding employment-law leader with broad global exposure, strong judgment, meaningful public company experience, and significant experience advising high-growth, multinational organizations. In-house legal experience is strongly preferred, and the right individual will have experience building an employment-law function from the ground up, designing for scale, and establishing practical infrastructure that can support a global public company. The successful candidate will bring a proven track record across employment law, employment litigation and disputes, UK employment matters, entity establishment, workplace relations, investigations, compliance, and workforce strategy in multiple jurisdictions, including experience launching new geographies and locations and creating scalable employment solutions in new regions. This role requires experience partnering with executive leadership, People teams, Finance, Tax, Immigration, Compliance, and other functions to maintain ongoing legal and regulatory compliance. Experience with EMEA and APAC employment matters is strongly preferred.
Success in this role will require clear communication, strong collaboration, and the ability to build trusted relationships across Quantinuum’s Legal, People, Compliance, Finance, Security, Commercial, Engineering, and leadership teams. The successful candidate will be agile, strategic, pragmatic, solutions oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, transparent, and highly technical environment where facts may evolve and decisions often must be made with imperfect information. They will be able to explain complex employment and business issues clearly, listen carefully, make timely and risk-calibrated decisions, stand by sound legal judgment, and challenge constructively when needed.
They will be steady, decisive, pragmatic, and comfortable operating with urgency in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to move complex and sensitive matters forward even when information is incomplete, while appropriately balancing legal risk, business needs, and employee impact.
The successful candidate must be a keen listener who is patient, diplomatic, globally aware, culturally sensitive, and open-minded, with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusted relationships internally and externally. They must take pride in providing timely, high-quality legal support and building scalable systems that help the company make sound decisions efficiently.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish, lead, and scale Quantinuum’s global employment-law function for a newly public company, including strategy, priorities, processes, playbooks, reporting, and operating rhythms aligned with business objectives, public company expectations, and effective partnership across the company.
- Provide advice and counsel to executive leadership, People team professionals, and business leaders on a broad range of employment matters, including recruiting, hiring, employee relations, discipline and terminations, internal investigations, leaves of absence, wage and hour compliance, EEO compliance, accommodations, restrictive covenants, immigration-related employment issues, contingent worker matters, and workforce transitions.
- Serve as a decisive, trusted advisor on complex employee relations, workplace conduct, organizational change, and workforce risk matters, helping resolve issues early where possible and positioning the company effectively where disputes may arise.
- Draft, review, and negotiate employment, separation, settlement, restrictive covenant, confidentiality, and related agreements.
- Partner with the People, Compliance, Security, Finance, and business teams to develop and maintain global employment policies, training, and practical processes that are scalable, compliant, and easy for the business to apply.
- Partner cross-functionally on the establishment and maintenance of legal entities and related employment, governance, payroll, benefits, immigration, tax, and regulatory compliance requirements in new and existing jurisdictions.
- Lead or provide legal guidance on internal investigations involving employment, workplace conduct, retaliation, whistleblower, compliance, or other sensitive matters, coordinating with Legal, Risk & Compliance, People, Finance, Security, and outside counsel as appropriate.
- Defend, supervise, and manage employment-related claims, agency charges, threatened litigation, attorney correspondence, settlement demands, and related matters globally, bringing strong litigation judgment, disciplined outside counsel management, and practical resolution strategy.
- Manage employment-law outside counsel relationships, budgets, accruals, and related legal spending with fiscal discipline, accountability, and a focus on clear business outcomes.
You Must Have:
- Minimum Juris Doctor, LLB, or law degree + admitted to practice and in good standing in at least one relevant jurisdiction.
- Minimum 15+ years of legal experience, including significant employment-law experience in-house, at a reputable law firm, or in an equivalent setting.
- Due to Contractual requirements, must be a U.S. Person defined as, U.S. citizen permanent resident or green card holder, workers granted asylum or refugee status.
- Due to national security requirements imposed by the U.S. Government, candidates for this position must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless the candidate is also a U.S. citizen.
We Value:
- In-depth knowledge of employment law gained through law firm and/or in-house experience, including experience advising multinational technology or other high-growth companies.
- Significant experience representing or advising companies in employment litigation and disputes, including matters before courts, agencies, arbitrators, mediators, regulators, or similar forums.
- Public company experience, including advising on employment-related governance expectations, disclosure-sensitive matters, executive-level decision-making, and the development of scalable legal processes in a public or newly public company environment.
- Experience building, formalizing, or significantly scaling an employment-law function from the ground up in a newly public or public company environment, including designing for scale and creating practical infrastructure, operating processes, policies, templates, reporting mechanisms, and decision frameworks that make the function an established partner across the company.
- Required experience supporting the establishment of legal entities, launching new geographies and locations, and creating scalable employment solutions in new regions, including partnering cross-functionally to maintain employment, corporate, tax, payroll, benefits, immigration, and regulatory compliance.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with changing priorities, evolving global requirements, and a need for sound judgment, responsible urgency, decisiveness, and risk-calibrated decision-making when facts are still developing.
- Pragmatic, business-oriented style with a demonstrated ability to translate legal and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable policies, processes, playbooks, and guidance that enable the business.
- Collaborative approach to leadership, knowledge sharing, and team development, with comfort operating in a global, cross-functional environment that values accountability, integrity, and partnership.
- Excellent knowledge of U.S. federal and state employment laws and required experience advising on UK employment matters, with the ability to coordinate effectively on other non-U.S. employment matters and partner with local counsel as needed. Experience with EMEA and APAC employment matters is strongly preferred.
- Exceptional writing skills, attention to detail, and ability to draft clear, practical, and original legal documents, policies, communications, and executive-ready guidance.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to help non-experts understand legal requirements, risk tradeoffs, and recommended actions.
- Hands-on, detail-oriented, outward-looking, and collaborative, with an inclusive, non-bureaucratic approach and the willingness to personally own and execute core work while enabling responsible business execution.
- Experience supporting geographically dispersed teams, multiple jurisdictions, and stakeholders across different time zones.
$360,000 - $450,000 a year
Compensation & Benefits:
Incentive Eligible – Range posted is inclusive of bonus target
The pay range for this role is $360,000 – $450,000 annually. Actual compensation within this range may vary based on the candidate’s skills, educational background, professional experience, and unique qualifications for the role.
Quantinuum is the world leader in quantum computing. The company’s quantum systems deliver the highest performance across all industry benchmarks. Quantinuum’s over 650 employees, including 400+ scientists and engineers, across the US, UK, Germany, and Japan, are driving the quantum computing revolution.
By uniting best-in-class software with high-fidelity hardware, our integrated full-stack approach is accelerating the path to practical quantum computing and scaling its impact across multiple industries.
By joining Quantinuum, you’ll be at the forefront of this transformative revolution, shaping the future of quantum computing, pushing the limits of technology, and making the impossible possible.
What’s in it for you?
A competitive salary and innovative, game-changing work
Flexible work schedule
Employer subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) match for student loan repayment benefit
Equity, 401k retirement savings plan + 12 Paid holidays and generous vacation + sick time
Paid parental leave
Employee discounts
Quantinuum is an equal opportunity employer. You will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status. Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis, there is no application deadline for this position.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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