Managing Counsel, Product

Referral Board; Emea; Remote; IDR 1.133.444.000 - 2.550.459.000; Full time

Job summary

A global HR-tech company is seeking a Managing Counsel, Product to join their remote team. The role involves leading compliance for AI and HRIS products, engaging with legal requirements across 90+ jurisdictions. The ideal candidate will have extensive product counseling experience and a strong grasp of AI frameworks. This full-time position offers a salary range of $67,950 - $152,900 depending on experience. Join a dynamic team and shape the future of work.

Benefits

Budget for local in-person social events

Flexible work schedule

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Product counseling across jurisdictions.
• Experience in advising within HR-tech, especially EOR/PEO/HRIS.
• Strong understanding of AI frameworks and data protection laws.

Responsibilities

• Own HRIS and AI product counseling end-to-end.
• Draft and negotiate product terms and AI-specific clauses.
• Monitor new AI and tech regulations.

Skills

Excellent analytical and organizational skills

Fluent English

Tech-savvy

Education

Qualified Lawyer

Product Counsel Experience

Tools

Slack

Juro

Notion

Google Drive

Job description

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space as a Managing Counsel, Product (Please note, this is not a People Manager role). We are looking for a talented and eager 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.

Remote’s well established Legal team is a bunch of friendly, talented highly motivated lawyers from a whole host of different countries, with some awesome experiences.

As Remote grows and adds new products, the volume and complexity of issues scale across 90+ jurisdictions. You will be a legal partner to Product, Engineering, Privacy, and Security, with emphasis on HRIS and AI/ML features, translating complex rules into clear, shippable requirements and striking the right balance between compliance and commerciality.

More specifically, this role is expected to:

• Lead AI and HRIS product compliance, partnering with Product, Engineering, Security and the Privacy team;
• Embed a risk-based legal review into product development workflows;
• Own product T&Cs for HRIS and AI features (output ownership, training use, acceptable use, transparency/disclaimers).
• Stand up core Product AI governance (model inventory, risk classification, human oversight, bias/testing, incident response alignment).

What you bring

• Qualified Lawyer: Seasoned lawyer with extensive experience on Product counseling (jurisdiction agnostic; multiple bars a plus)
• Product Counsel Experience in technology, with prior HR-tech exposure (EOR/PEO/HRIS/Payroll) advising at scale across multiple jurisdictions.
• Strong command of emerging AI frameworks (e.g., EU AI Act, UK approach, U.S. state/federal developments, Canada AIDA) and their interplay with data protection (GDPR/CCPA) and employment transparency rules.
• In-house Experience: Bonus - In-house legal experience preferred
• Startup Experience: Bonus - Experience in fast-paced start-up.
• Tech Passion: Passionate about tech and HR tech products.
• Skills: Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
• Language: Writes and speaks fluent English.
• Tools: Tech-savvy with Slack, Juro, Notion, Google Drive, or equivalent.
• Experience working remotely is considered a plus.

Key Responsibilities

Legal Expertise

• Own HRIS and AI product counseling end-to-end, including AI impact assessments, model cards, and risk controls with Privacy/Security.
• Draft and negotiate product terms, and AI-specific clauses as required (training/usage of data & metadata, output/IP ownership, acceptable use, transparency), in collaboration with Commercial Legal team.
• Proactively monitor new AI and tech regulations and translate those into concrete, actionable steps for product, design and engineering teams.
• Manage external counsel on complex, multi-jurisdictional issues; drive clear, practical outcomes.
• Deliver targeted enablement (Trainings or office hours).
• Partner with Privacy & Security on DPIAs/TIAs, incident response, and vendor/LLM diligence.
• Complex Matters: Figures out solutions rather than just escalating problems.

Bonus Points

• Experience working with AI/ML legal and compliance issues.
• Shipped at least one AI feature in production and built the accompanying legal/governance framework.
• Experience working remotely.

Practicals

• You’ll report to: Managing Counsel, Commercial & Product
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with future manager
• Interview with Senior Director and team member

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide – here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is

$67,950 - $152,900 USD

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

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