Employment Counsel (Global)

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• Company is a technology-driven proprietary trading firm, running options market making, high frequency and multi-strategy discretionary trading from London, Amsterdam, and offices across the US and Asia. We are creating a single, global owner for employment law, reporting directly to the Chief Legal Officer.
• This is the first role of its kind at Maven, with a broad global remit. You will own every employee relations matter end to end. You will advise the CLO, the C-suite, and the Chief People Officer directly, and you will set the standard for how Maven handles its people issues in every jurisdiction where we employ.
• The operating model is already established: the role structure, work allocation process, service standards, escalation framework and reporting pack are built and running in the UK. 
• Maven Legal is nimble, focused, senior, and commercial: you will be trusted with the whole of your subject from day one.
• Own every ER Legal matter across the group: disciplinary, grievance, performance, absence, restructuring, and contentious matters.
• Be the single point of contact for managers and HR. Answer the same day on anything genuinely time-critical.
• Run each case against one consistent playbook, so outcomes are consistent.
• Spot the patterns, improve processes and policies, make a difference and produce better outcomes.
• Advise the founders, C-suite, Chief People Officer and CLO on employment risks in plain, commercial language, with a clear recommendation rather than a menu of options.
• Give the practical answer alongside the legal one. We want to know what the risk actually is, why it matters here, and what you would do.
• Escalate to the CLO on anything strategic, precedent-setting, or reputationally material.
• Run employment tribunal claims and their equivalents in other jurisdictions, work with HR on ACAS early conciliation, from first response to resolution.
• Lead on restrictive covenant and non-solicitation enforcement, bonus disputes, and contentious exits, instructing and directing external counsel where local law requires it.
• Own the employment contract suite, the policy library, and the handbook across every jurisdiction, keeping them current with legislative change.
• Create global templates to ensure consistency in approach and outcomes: bonus letters and policies, settlement agreements, restrictive covenants, and communications to staff.
• Run an annual policy review programme rather than fixing policies after they fail.
• Build the coordination protocol that keeps group-wide matters consistent.
• Manage local counsel where local qualification is required, and identify cross-border inconsistencies at an early stage.
• Bring AI and legal technology into the employment workflow, in line with Maven Legal’s aim to be one of the best equipped and most technology-capable legal teams in our industry.
• Build the templates, playbooks and self-service materials that let managers handle the routine well and escalate the rest early.
• Build trusted relationships with managers and HR so that issues are escalated early.
• Deliver practical training to HR, managers and the wider legal team.
• Manage the employment panel and the external spend that goes with it.
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• Qualified solicitor in England and Wales, c.6 to 10 years PQE, with employment law as your primary practice.
• Strong contentious track record: you have run tribunal claims yourself, not just supervised them.
• Comfortable advising senior stakeholders directly, and confident holding a position with a founder in the room.
• Commercial and practical. You can explain why an indemnity or a covenant matters in this specific situation, and you do the work to know.
• Able to operate as the only specialist in your subject, with the judgment to know what to escalate.
• In-house experience in financial services, ideally trading, hedge funds, or another high-performance environment.
• Exposure to multi-jurisdictional employment work, particularly US or Dutch.
• Experience bringing AI or legal technology into a legal workflow.
• Experience of bonus and incentive disputes, and of covenant enforcement.
• Competitive compensation package
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Group pension plan
• Enhanced annual leave allowance after 2+ years’ service
• 25 days’ annual leave (plus public holidays)
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch, and snacks prepared by an in-house chef
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• On-site private gym with instructor-led classes including boxing, yoga, and more
• Monthly company events and social activities
• Work in a forward-thinking environment where AI is integral to our strategy and daily operations  
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