Ирландия
ВеликобританияDirector, Legal - Employment
3 нед. назад
ИрландияВеликобританияDirectorRemote
Lead legal efforts focusing on employment law for a global SaaS company, operating remotely from the UK or Ireland.
О компании
- The Employment Legal team works closely with People Business Partners, Team Member Relations, Legal colleagues, and other teams to navigate employment requirements across multiple jurisdictions, manage disputes and investigations, build clear, scalable processes for an all-remote organization. This role will lead complex EMEA employment matters while contributing to consistent, practical legal support and stronger employment-law processes across .
Обязанности
- Provide senior, practical employment-law advice to team members and stakeholders across , balancing legal risk, business objectives, and ’s values, serving as a subject-matter resource for legal colleagues and cross-functional partners.
- Directly manage matters across the employment lifecycle, including recruiting and onboarding, compensation, performance management, leave management, employee relations, works council processes, organizational changes, separation, and post-employment issues.
- Directly negotiate and engage with works councils and employee representative bodies across EMEA jurisdictions, and lead consultation processes for organizational change.
- Represent in, or directly manage outside counsel appearances for, labor courts, employment tribunals, and agency investigations, including case strategy, fact development, witness preparation, and settlement decisions.
- Counsel People Business Partners, Team Member Relations partners, and business leaders on complex and sensitive team-member relations concerns.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and maintain employment agreements, separation agreements, policies, templates, and related documentation across multiple jurisdictions.
- Own employment compliance across EMEA and incorporate outside-counsel input into strategies that match the business.
- Monitor and analyze changes in employment, privacy, and related laws; identify legal risks; and translate developments into practical recommendations and implementable guidance.
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of scalable employment-law processes, systems, playbooks, templates, and supporting documentation for the Legal and People teams.
- Provide employment advice in regions outside EMEA as needed.
- Use to collaborate transparently and work effectively in an asynchronous, globally distributed environment.
Требования
- A Juris Doctor (JD), Bachelor of Laws (LLB), or local equivalent, admitted to practice in at least one EMEA jurisdiction.
- Substantial, firsthand experience advising a multinational company with works councils across EMEA, including direct hands-on negotiation and consultation experience.
- A demonstrated track record of advocating or managing outside counsel in labor courts, employment tribunals and analogous proceedings .
- Deep knowledge of employment compliance requirements across EMEA, with the judgment to identify when advice from local counsel is needed.
- Experience counseling People Business Partners, Team Member Relations partners, and business leaders on sensitive and complex employment matters, including works council strategy.
- Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating employment agreements, separation agreements, policies, templates, and related documentation across multiple jurisdictions.
- Fluency with GDPR and other local privacy requirements related to team-member data.
- Experience building or significantly improving legal processes, systems, playbooks, templates, and documentation that produce consistent outcomes at scale.
- Strong issue-spotting, risk-assessment, and judgment skills, with the ability to provide clear recommendations and practical solutions.
- The ability to manage a high volume of complex legal matters independently and bring them to resolution.
- Clear communication and relationship-building skills, including the ability to serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across Legal, People, and the business.
- A practical and creative approach to problem-solving, sound business judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to work across functions, time zones, and cultures.
- Comfort working in a remote, globally distributed, asynchronous environment; willingness to learn and use in your day-to-day work.
Другое
- is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust to ship better, more secure software faster.
- The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
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- This position is remote and based in the United Kingdom or Ireland. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports at this time. You'll own matters end to end rather than manage a team.
- As Director, Legal – Employment, you will own ’s matters spanning the full employment relationship in EMEA, from recruiting and onboarding through compensation, performance, leave management, separation, and, when necessary, litigation. You will independently lead complex employment law matters end-to-end, including representing before works councils and labor courts, as well as setting the strategy for managing employment risk in the region. You will also build scalable legal processes to meet the business needs across a globally-distributed, all-remote organization, while sharing subject-matter expertise and mentoring legal colleagues and cross-functional partners.
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
- Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
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