Managing Counsel, Employment Legal
Overview
Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance.
Job Description
This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space as Managing Counsel, Employment (Individual Contributor), joining our Legal Team. We are looking for a talented and eager employment lawyer, who is interested in helping with our team’s mission, namely: to deliver pragmatic and innovative legal solutions for Remote’s products and stakeholders, while protecting Remote from unacceptable risk.
Responsibilities
- - Advise on a wide range of employment law issues across multiple jurisdictions, including advising on complex internal and external employee matters
- - Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure timely and effective completion of projects, managing risks and aligning with business objectives
- - Contribute to the Legal Team's knowledge base and expertise while working to build your own unique knowledge base within the Team
- - Master employment law and contracts for particular region or regions (EMEA, APAC, etc.) and different employment law subject matters (terminations, employee management, onboardings, compliance, litigation etc.)
- - Identify company-wide employment law legal issues and work with key internal stakeholders and external partners to implement efficient and effective solutions
- - Contribute to the Legal team’s sustainable growth and structure, raising internal awareness to the legal teams’s work and expertise
- - Build relationships with key senior stakeholders across the organisation, evolving the role of the Legal team in order to add maximum value to the business and improve Remote’s service and product
Required Skills
- - Qualified French lawyer (mandatory)
- - Experience in advisory and contentious employment law including the entire employee lifecycle (recruitment, HR policies, benefits, and terminations are the key areas) in multiple jurisdictions
- - Passionate about tech (particularly HR tech) products
- - Previous in-house experience in an HR Tech, IT or SAAS company is a strong plus
- - Excellent analytical and organizational skills
- - Ability to switch between multiple different projects
- - Well-versed in modern business and legal tools such as Slack and Notion
- - Eager to learn about different legal systems
- - Writes and speaks fluent English and French
- - It is not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus
Benefits
- - 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
About the company
Remote eliminates barriers to international hiring so great companies can work with great people, no matter where those people are.
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