Who you are

• US Qualified Lawyer (mandatory)
• Solid experience as a senior legal employment counsel, in-house legal experience preferred
• Extensive experience in advisory and contentious employment law including the entire employee lifecycle (recruitment, HR policies, benefits, and terminations are the key areas)
• Passionate about tech and HR tech products
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills
• Writes and speaks fluent English
• Technologically competent with experience using (or the ability to quickly master) applications, such as Slack, Juro, Notion, Google Drive, Asana, Kissflow or equivalent
• Fluent in multiple languages
• Experience in advising on employment law issues in multiple jurisdictions
• Experience working for a tech or other fast-paced start-up company
• Experience working remotely

What the job involves

• This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space as a Managing Counsel, Employment (Individual Contributor), joining our Legal Team as an Employment Law Counsel
• Remote's well established Legal team is a bunch of friendly, talented highly motivated lawyers from a whole host of different countries, with some awesome experiences
• Remote’s Legal Team is responsible for delivering pragmatic and innovative legal solutions for Remote’s products and services, while protecting Remote from unacceptable risk
• As Remote adds new products to the platform and rapidly scales its new and existing customer base, so too does the volume and complexity of legal issues. Each new venture, customer, or external employee could bring a myriad of legal issues across 90+ jurisdictions
• Supports our Employee Lifecycle and People teams in managing internal and external employees
• Ensures Remote’s compliance with employment laws across jurisdictions; and
• Assists other teams such as our International Operations team with compliance in new territories and and Product team in streamlining our product
• Advise on a wide range of employment law issues across multiple jurisdictions, including advising on complex internal and external employee matters
• Identify company-wide legal issues and work with key internal stakeholders and external partners to implement efficient and effective solutions
• Take on a leadership role in cross-team legal projects, collaborating with Remoters from other teams
• Contribute to the Legal Team's knowledge base and expertise while working to build your own unique knowledge base within the Team
• Institute best practices to help the Employment Specialist sub-team to function more efficiently and better support internal stakeholders
• Manage external local counsel and manage legal projects
• You'll report to: Managing Counsel, Employment (Manager)

The application process

• Start date: As soon as possible
• (async) Profile review
• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with Hiring Manager
• Written exercise
• Interview with Senior Director, Employment, Product and Commercial
• Bar Raiser Interview
• Prior employment verification check
• Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format
• We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote
• If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead

Benefits

• Unlimited personal time off
• Paid parental leave
• Co-working allowance
• Flexible working hours
• Learning budget
• Mental health support
• Company stock options
• Home office setup
• Celebratory allowances
• Branded swag
• Other country-specific benefits