Senior Director / Head of Employment Law, Remote

• Senior qualified lawyer (10+ years) with at least 2 years of in-house experience, ideally as Head of Employment
• No requirement to be qualified in any particular jurisdiction, but experience working on legal issue across multiple jurisdictions
• A good familiarity with global employment laws and trends
• Team leadership and management experience
• Extensive experience in advisory and contentious employment law including the entire employee lifecycle (recruitment, HR policies, benefits, and terminations are the key areas)
• Passionate about tech and HR tech products
• Technologically competent with experience using (or the ability to quickly master) applications, such as Slack, Juro, Notion, Google Drive, Asana, Kissflow or equivalent
• Writes and speaks fluent English

Desirable

• We are looking for Senior Director, Global Employment Counsel to help us propel our team mission, namely: supercharging our business through the provision of excellent legal advice and solid legal processes
• This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space joining our Legal team as Manager and Leader of the Employment Specialists team (currently comprised of 3 employment lawyers but expanding)
• The team is built of talented highly motivated lawyers from a whole host of different countries, with some awesome experiences and we are looking for a great match for them
• As Remote is increasing its global footprint, every expansion into a new country brings myriad legal issues
• The Legal Team is responsible for the legal soundness of our business models, contractual agreements with clients and their staff (i.e. the employees we hire under our “Employer of Record” service – our “external employees”), legally compliant employee management and data protection compliance amongst other areas
• Supports our Employee Lifecycle and People teams in managing internal and external employees
• Ensures Remote’s compliance with employment laws across jurisdictions; and
• Assists other teams such as our International Operations team with expanding into new territories and and Product team in streamlining our product
• Lead cross-jurisdictional employment law compliance
• Set the division and strategy of the Employment Specialists team
• Work with key internal stakeholders and external partners to make strategic cross-functional decisions and plans to improve Remote’s service and product
• Institute best practices to help the Employment Specialist sub-team to function more efficiently and better support internal stakeholders
• Advise on a wide range of employment law issues across multiple jurisdictions, including advising on complex internal and external employee matters
• You'll report to: VP General Counsel
• Direct Reports: 3

• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with team members
• Second Interview with team members
• Interview with the VP
• Prior employment verification check