Managing Counsel, Employment Legal - USA

R; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in HR solutions is seeking a Managing Counsel, Employment to join their remote Legal Team. This position involves advising on complex employment law issues across multiple jurisdictions and working collaboratively with diverse teams. Candidates must be US qualified lawyers with substantial experience in employment law, speaking fluent English. Flexible remote work options and a competitive salary between $152,900 to $229,400 are offered.

Benefits

Work from anywhere

Flexible paid time off

Mental health support services

Stock options

Learning budget

Home office budget & IT equipment

Budget for local social events

Qualifications

• US Qualified Lawyer (mandatory).
• Solid experience as a senior legal employment counsel.
• Fluent English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Advise on a variety of employment law issues across jurisdictions.
• Identify and resolve company-wide legal issues.
• Collaborate in cross-team legal projects.

Skills

US Qualified Lawyer

Solid experience as a senior legal employment counsel

Extensive experience in advisory and contentious employment law

Excellent analytical skills

Fluent in English

Technologically competent

Tools

Slack

Juro

Notion

Google Drive

Asana

Kissflow

Job description

About Remote 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!

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space as a Managing Counsel, Employment (Individual Contributor), joining our Legal Team as an Employment Law Counsel. 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.

Remote’s Legal Team is responsible for delivering pragmatic and innovative legal solutions for Remote’s products and services, while protecting Remote from unacceptable risk. As Remote adds new products to the platform and rapidly scales its new and existing customer base, so too does the volume and complexity of legal issues. Each new venture, customer, or external employee could bring a myriad of legal issues across 90+ jurisdictions.

More specifically, our Employment Specialists team

• 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 compliance in new territories and Product team in streamlining our product.

Requirements

• US Qualified Lawyer (mandatory)
• Solid experience as a senior legal employment counsel, in-house legal experience preferred
• 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
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills
• Writes and speaks fluent English
• Technologically competent with experience using (or the ability to quickly master) applications, such as Slack, Juro, Notion, Google Drive, Asana, Kissflow or equivalent.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise on a wide range of employment law issues across multiple jurisdictions, including advising on complex internal and external employee matters
• Identify company-wide legal issues and work with key internal stakeholders and external partners to implement efficient and effective solutions
• Take on a leadership role in cross-team legal projects, collaborating with Remoters from other teams
• Contribute to the Legal Team's knowledge base and expertise while working to build your own unique knowledge base within the Team
• Institute best practices to help the Employment Specialist sub-team to function more efficiently and better support internal stakeholders
• Manage external local counsel and manage legal projects

Bonus Points

• Fluent in multiple languages
• Experience in advising on employment law issues in multiple jurisdictions
• Experience working for a tech or other fast-paced start-up company
• Experience working remotely

Practicals

• You'll report to: Managing Counsel, Employment (Manager)
• Team: Legal
• Location: AMER preferred
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

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.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $152,900 to $229,400 USD. 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.

Application Process

• Profile review
• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with Hiring Manager
• Written exercise
• Interview with Senior Director, Employment, Product and Commercial
• Bar Raiser Interview
• Prior employment verification check

Benefits

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

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours
• 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

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). Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

How to apply

• Please fill out the form and upload your CV with a PDF format.
• We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English.
• If you don’t have an up-to-date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at the interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply. As an equal employment opportunity employer, it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences.