Managing Counsel - Employment Legal (US)
1 мес. назад
USASeniorRemote
Senior legal role specializing in US employment law within a global HR-tech company.
Обязанности
- Provide strategic employment law advice across multiple jurisdictions, covering both internal and external employee matters.
- Lead on complex advisory and contentious employment matters across the employee lifecycle, including both internal and external employees.
- Identify company-wide legal issues and implement scalable solutions in partnership with stakeholders.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives, driving alignment across Legal, People, Operations, and other teams.
- Shape team knowledge standards, building subject-matter expertise and creating reusable resources.
- Set best practices and governance frameworks to improve efficiency and legal service delivery.
- Manage external local counsel and oversee complex employment projects across jurisdictions.
Требования
- US-qualified lawyer; this is mandatory.
- Solid experience as a senior legal employment counsel, with a strong track record handling advisory and contentious matters across the employee lifecycle.
- Experience leading on complex internal and external employee matters independently.
- Experience advising across multiple jurisdictions.
- Good understanding and experience with tech and HR tech products.
- Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
- Writes and speaks fluent English.
- Technologically competent with Slack, CLM tools, Notion, Google Drive, AI tools, Zendesk, or equivalent tools.
- In-house legal experience preferred.
- Experience in a tech or fast-paced start-up environment preferred
- Fluent in multiple languages preferred
- Experience working remotely preferred.
Условия
- work from anywhere
- flexible paid time off
- flexible working hours (we are async )
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- mental health support services
- stock options
- learning budget
- home office budget & IT equipment
- budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
Как откликнуться
- Interview with recruiter
- Interview with Hiring Manager
- Written exercise
- Interview with Senior Director, Employment, Product and Commercial
- Bar Raiser Interview
- Prior employment verification check
- 's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
- At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change. At , we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee gr
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- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at .
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- Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.
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Другое
- This is an exciting time to join and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space as a Managing Counsel, Employment Legal (US) , joining our Legal Team as part of the Employment Specialists. 's Legal Team delivers pragmatic, innovative legal solutions while protecting from unacceptable risk. As grows and adds new products, the volume and complexity of legal issues also scale across 90+ jurisdictions.
- This is a backfill role. In this senior individual contributor position, you will own complex, high-impact employment law matters, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and help scale legal support across ’s global employment operations.
- More specifically, our Employment Specialists team:
- Supports our Employee Lifecycle and People teams in managing internal and external employees;
- Ensures 's compliance with employment laws across jurisdictions; and
- Assists other teams such as our International Operations team with local entity compliance and the Product team in streamlining our product and ensuring labor law compliance.
- You'll report to: Managing Counsel, Employment
- Team: Legal
- Location: AMER preferred
- Start date: As soon as possible
- We work async at which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at .com/async .
- You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.
- If that sounds like something you want, apply now!