Legal Counsel, Employment

30450 Condé Nast Holdings Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Condé Nast is seeking a qualified legal professional to support the Executive Director, International Employment and Compliance with the full range of employee matters across our international markets. The role involves providing cross border employment law advice and partnering with the global People Team to embed a culture of compliance.

You will handle investigations, contract templates, visa applications, immigration policy, and audits, ensuring alignment with local laws and corporate

Qualifications

• Qualified legal professional with 2+ years PQE in employment law.
• Experience in UK and international employment law, private practice or in-house.
• Knowledge of AI tools and how they affect compliance and data privacy.

Responsibilities

• Support the Executive Director, International Employment and Compliance on employment matters across international markets.
• Advise on internal HR best practices, employee relations and investigations.
• Advise on visa applications, sponsorship, and immigration compliance.
• Prepare guidance and training on employment law and compliance.

Skills

Employment law

UK & international law

Investigations

Immigration matters

Policy development

AI in workplace compliance

Education

Legal qualification (PQE 2+)

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Condé Nast is one of the world's most renowned media publishing companies, creating and distributing every type of media today, spanning print and digital publishing in all formats. With a portfolio of some of today's most influential brands, the company continues to grow its audience through a global operational and content infrastructure across its 12 owned and operated markets. Headquartered in New York City, the company's owned and operated markets include China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, UAE/Dubai, the U.K., and the U.S., with additional local license partners in over twenty additional markets across the globe. Lead brands include Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Architectural Digest, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, Allure, Ars Technica, Bon Appétit, House & Garden, Pitchfork, Tatler, and Vogue Business.

Job Description Location: London, GB

The purpose of this role is to support the Executive Director, International Employment and Compliance with the full range of employee matters, including employee relations, employment lifecycle documentation and employee compliance in all of our international markets. The role will be required to work closely with leaders across the business and become a close partner of the global People Team community. The role involves providing cross border employment law advice to enable Condé Nast to achieve its business goals. It will also involve supporting the wider Business & Legal Affairs team on ensuring we are embedding a culture of people compliance and investigating issues as they arise.

Specific Responsibilities

• Supporting the Executive Director, International Employment and Compliance, and providing advice and support on all types of employment and labour law work, across all our international markets.
• Partnering with our global Condé Nast People Team colleagues to ensure internal legal best practices for managing employee relations.
• Supporting employee investigations.
• Advising upon individual and collective consultation processes.
• Providing advice and support on issues relating to diversity and inclusion.
• Supporting advice on day to day employment matters including contract templates, disciplinary and grievance processes, redundancy and restructuring.
• This will include overseeing employment contracts and exit paperwork where appropriate.
• Supporting our People Team to address workforce representation related issues, including works councils and other representative bodies.
• Keeping up to date with relevant legal and regulatory updates and advising on changes in local law or regulation that may impact policies and procedures.
• Supporting the Executive Director, International Employment and Compliance on employment litigation.
• Supporting people compliance queries, issues, and people compliance investigations as they arise as well as queries from auditors and regulators.
• Preparing and helping draft guidance and training to colleagues on employment law and compliance matters.
• Working with Business & Legal Affairs team members on instructing and monitoring UK visa applications and on compliance issues relating to our UK visa sponsorship licence, including but not limited to record keeping, and reporting changes alongside our external partner.
• Working with Business & Legal Affairs team members to enable the global mobility internal policy application, supporting global immigration requirements and liaising with relevant external third parties on our behalf.
• Managing external counsel where appropriate.

Skills and Experience

• Qualified legal professional (with 2+ years PQE preferable).
• Be passionate about the media industry.
• Strong experience in UK and International Employment law gained either in private practice or in an in-house role in a sector similar to Condé Nast.
• Demonstrated experience in working with and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) tools, alongside advising People Team and business stakeholders on the legal, compliance, and regulatory implications of deploying AI technologies in the workplace, including data privacy, risk mitigation, and policy development.
• In particular, experience of handling international employment law issues, including consultations, and employee relations matters, such as internal investigations and disciplinary matters, is required.
• Ability to coordinate investigations in Europe and APAC markets.
• Additional experience in ethical compliance matters, and working with company compliance policies, is preferred.
• Interest and preferentially experience of advising or managing immigration matters.
• Ability to work independently in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to present legal advice in a pragmatic, problem solving and commercial fashion.
• European international languages are preferred.
• Confident, self starter who welcomes the opportunity presented in developing strong relationships.
• Positive "can do" attitude and willingness to work flexibly and as part of an evolving team that is itself operating in a business and sector going through change.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.

Condé Nast is a global media company home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, AD, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New Yorker, Glamour, Allure, Bon Appétit and many more. Headquartered in New York and London, the company produces award-winning journalism, content and entertainment for every platform today and operates in 32 markets worldwide including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the U.K. and U.S., and Taiwan. At Condé Nast we value diversity of background, views and cultures. We celebrate people for their personal qualities, their skills and contributions. And we recognize the power our brands have to influence and shape culture, catalyze action and help make our world a better place for all. For more information, please visit condenast.com and follow @CondeNast and @CondeNastCareer for Twitter and @condenastcareers for Instagram.