Senior Legal Counsel, Core

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Support and partner with different internal stakeholders such as Sales team, Customer Experience, Onboarding, Lifecycle, and other operational teams at Remote.
• - Effectively manage internal and external client expectations and adopt a customer centric approach.
• - Proactively identify areas for improvement and help us to develop excellent template contracts, playbooks, standard operating procedures and knowledge resources for all our products, with a focus in the EOR product.
• - Conduct in-depth legal research on new products and new laws, identifying potential risks and opportunities.
• - Drive the development and enhancement of the legal function within Remote, implementing best practices and innovative solutions.
• - Mentor, train, and support junior legal team members, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.
• - Manage relationships with Local Counsel when legal matters need to be escalated to external lawyers.
• - Manage local counsel and lead litigations and collections matters, when necessary.
• - Proactively identify and propose innovative solutions to legal problems and processes.
• - Expertly manage internal and client escalations where necessary.
• - Collaborate with the Legal Ops team in efficiency and AI projects related to your areas of expertise.

Required Skills

• - Experienced and qualified lawyer in US or Canada with Canadian employment law experience.
• - Interested in working for a tech-scaleup and specifically HR-tech.
• - Extensive experience in legal practice, preferably in labor and employment law.
• - Ability to learn and master Remote's communication application (Slack), contract management system, documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive), and task management systems (Notion, ZenDesk).
• - Eager to learn about different legal systems and employment laws (as we are a global company).
• - Creative legal thinker – we often need innovative, out-of-the-box solutions.
• - Excellent communication skills: writes and speaks fluent English; additional languages would be helpful.
• - Able to distill complex issues into concise and clear language.
• - Proven ability to work autonomously and lead legal projects.
• - Proven experience in mentoring and guiding junior legal professionals.

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