Legal Director, Lime
EMEA Employment Law
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Electric bike and scooter rentals
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Electric bike and scooter rentals
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate brings deep employment law expertise, sound judgment, and substantial experience advising on workforce classification and contingent workforce structures
- This person should be comfortable operating independently, managing sophisticated matters from strategy through execution, and partnering closely with stakeholders across Legal, People, Operations, Finance, and Product
- J.D. or equivalent law degree and active bar membership in good standing
- 10+ years of relevant employment law experience, ideally combining top-tier law firm and in-house experience
- Deep practical knowledge of employment law across multiple jurisdictions, including experience managing cross-border issues
- Significant experience advising on workforce classification, contingent workforce models, independent contractor issues, and related litigation, investigations, or regulatory enforcement
- Strong experience handling employment litigation, agency matters, internal investigations, and escalated workplace issues
- Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously, prioritize effectively, and manage a high-volume, high-complexity workload
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to translate legal risk into practical business guidance
- Strong business judgment and a solutions-oriented approach
- Experience supporting a high-growth, global technology company is strongly preferred
- Experience building scalable employment law processes and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders at senior levels is preferred
- Not sure if you meet all the qualifications? If this role excites you we encourage you to apply. Explore all opportunities on our career page
What the job involves
- Lime is hiring a EMEA Legal Director, Employment Law to join our Legal team
- In this role, you will serve as a senior legal partner to the People team, business leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders on complex employment law matters across multiple jurisdictions
- This is a strategic and hands-on role for an experienced employment lawyer who can provide pragmatic day-to-day advice while also building scalable legal infrastructure for a high-growth, global company
- This is a unique opportunity to help shape Lime’s global employment law strategy as the company continues to scale
- Serve as the senior legal partner for HR, People, and business leaders on a wide range of day-to-day employment law matters across multiple jurisdictions
- Advise on complex employment issues, including employee relations, performance management, terminations, investigations, accommodations, leaves, works council matters, workforce classification, TUPE-related issues, reorganizations, and other sensitive workplace matters
- Lead employment-related disputes, litigation, agency charges, audits, inspections, and regulatory matters, including management of outside counsel
- Partner cross-functionally on the design, implementation, and ongoing assessment of workforce structures, operational practices, and contracts
- Draft, review, and localize employment agreements, handbooks, separation agreements, policies, and other employment-related documents
- Collaborate with stakeholders on compensation and benefits programs, pay equity and pay transparency initiatives, including EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance and readiness, business restructurings, market expansion, and other strategic initiatives with employment law implications
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments and proactively advise the business on changes that may affect company practices across jurisdictions
- Develop and implement scalable policies, playbooks, and processes that improve consistency, reduce risk, and support efficient growth
Our take
In recent years, electric-powered mobility companies have attracted an extraordinary amount of interest and funding, in part due to rising eco-friendly sentiment, and in part because of the race to "find the next Uber". Lime is one such company, that has rapidly scaled across multiple geographies to be a key player in the fight for market leadership.
Lime, along with its competitors, has had to grapple with regulation in many of its target markets, but nonetheless has steadily increased its footprint. Since its launch, the company has facilitated millions of trips, making it one of the biggest companies of its kind. Interestingly, the CEO has stated that "cars are our true business rivals—not other scooter companies", suggesting that its biggest business challenge will be to get families to give up their second cars.
With a presence that spans an impressive number of regions - in 2023, Lime began operating in Qatar - the company has cemented itself in the micromobility market and stands to profit from the increasing popularity of these types of services. A substantial increase in ridership enabled Lime to achieve "free cash flow positivity" two years in a row, with suggestions it will pursue a US IPO in 2027.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2021
$523m
CONVERTIBLE
May 2020
$170m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Disability insurance
- 401(k)
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Toby
(Co-Founder & Board Advisor)Founder and CEO of ZERO&. Was a Marketing Manager at Pepsi for 6 years before doing an MBA at Berkeley. Moved into consulting and VC for 5 years before starting Lime.
Brad
(Co-Founder & Chairman)VP of Business Development at Tencent for 8 years. Managing Partner of a VC firm for 3 years, where he worked with Toby. Has an MBA from Berkeley.
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