Counsel, Labor & Employment

COUNSEL, LABOR & EMPLOYMENT

About Carvana If you like disrupting the norm and are looking to join a company revolutionizing an industry, then you will LOVE what Carvana has done for the car buying experience. Buying a car the old-fashioned way sucks and we are working hard to make it NOT suck. I mean, have you seen our vending machine?!

We are looking for people who are excited to thrive in an environment of impactful change. Team spirit is evident at Carvana, and every day we let our passions and creativity foster innovation. We take big swings, set ambitious goals, and challenge each other to make data- and process-driven decisions in everything we do. For more information on Carvana and our mission, learn more about what it’s like to work here from the people who already do.

About the team and position Most employment law jobs make you choose: be the counselor who advises on the hard decisions but hands off every dispute, or the litigator who defends decisions someone else made. Very few let you do both. At Carvana, our labor & employment team does it all and has fun doing it.

Carvana is a disruptive S&P 500 company that completely reinvented how cars are bought and sold—and behind that is a large, multi-state workforce that generates the full spectrum of labor and employment work. As Counsel on our Labor & Employment Team, you will own matters across that entire spectrum. You’ll counsel HR and business leaders on their hardest people decisions, and then you’ll stand behind that advice—responding to agency charges, defending litigation and arbitrations, and handling traditional labor matters as they arise. You advise, you defend, and you fold what you learn in the dispute back into the advice. That loop is the job, and almost nowhere else offers all of it in one seat.

We also think AI is a revolutionary opportunity for this profession, and we’re acting like it. We’re building a team of AI agents to take on the non-substantive, procedural work so our attorneys and paralegals can spend their time on judgment, strategy, and advocacy. You’ll help us extend that build to the L&E practice. And the practice itself has scale you won’t find many places: a large, fast-growing workforce spread across the country and across every kind of role—corporate headquarters, inspection centers, the delivery fleet. If the variety and pace of those employment questions energize you, you will thrive here.

This role is in-person, Monday–Friday at our corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona.

• Serve as the day-to-day legal partner to HR and business leaders on terminations, discipline, accommodations, leaves, internal investigations, reductions in force, and policy design—delivering timely, practical answers, not memos.

• Own agency matters end to end: EEOC and state-agency charges, DOL, OSHA, and other regulator inquiries—conducting investigations, preparing position statements, and attending mediations to ensure a proper resolution.

• Own a portfolio of employment litigation and arbitration matters—single-plaintiff lawsuits/arbitrations, wage-and-hour claims, and class and representative actions—from intake through final resolution, handling matters directly where it makes sense and managing top-tier outside counsel for the balance.

• Although Carvana is mainly an open-shop employer, you will occasionally work traditional labor matters—union representation petitions and related NLRB proceedings—alongside senior team members and outside counsel, and help leadership