Managing Counsel, Product (Payroll experience required)

Remote Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 66,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from anywhere

Flexible paid time off

Asynchronous work hours

16 weeks parental leave

Co-working budget & learning/wellness

Mental health support

Stock options

Home office budget & IT equipment

Job summary

Remote is seeking a Managing Counsel, Product to guide legal strategy for payroll and AI features across 90+ jurisdictions. You will partner with Payroll, Product, Engineering, Privacy and Security to translate complex regulatory rules into actionable product requirements while balancing compliance with business needs.

The team is global, hiring remotely, with a focus on pragmatic legal solutions, risk management, and scalable governance for AI and payroll products.

Qualifications

• Qualified Lawyer: Seasoned lawyer with extensive experience on Product counseling (jurisdiction agnostic; multiple bars a plus)
• Product Counsel Experience in technology, with proven expertise in HR tech (Payroll/PEO/EOR) and track record advising at scale across multiple jurisdictions.
• Deep expertise in AI frameworks (EU AI Act, UK approach, U.S. state/federal developments, Canada AIDA) and their interplay with data protection, employment law, and payroll compliance across jurisdictions

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on payroll and AI product counseling end‑to‑end, including payroll launch readiness assessments and risk controls.
• Negotiate product T&Cs and AI‑specific clauses for payroll features.
• Monitor AI/tech regulations and translate into concrete actions for product/engineering teams.
• Manage external counsel on multi‑jurisdictional issues; drive practical outcomes.
• Deliver enablement trainings or office hours.
• Partner with Privacy & Security on DPIAs/TIAs and vendor diligence.

Skills

Product counseling

HR tech expertise

AI regulatory knowledge

In‑house experience

Startup experience

Analytical skills

English fluency

Tools

Claude

Slack

Notion

Google Drive

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.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

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.

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 (This is an Individual Contributor 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 Payroll, Product, Engineering, Privacy, and Security, with emphasis on payroll and AI/ML features, translating complex rules into clear, shippable requirements and striking the right balance between compliance and commerciality.

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 proven expertise in HR tech (Payroll/PEO/EOR) and track record advising at scale across multiple jurisdictions.
• Deep expertise in AI frameworks (EU AI Act, UK approach, U.S. state/federal developments, Canada AIDA) and their interplay with data protection (GDPR/CCPA), employment law, and payroll compliance across jurisdictions
• 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 Claude, Slack, Notion, Google Drive, or equivalent

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team on payroll and AI product counseling end-to-end, including payroll launch readiness assessment, AI impact assessments, model cards, and risk controls with Privacy/Security.
• Collaborate with Commercial Legal on product T&Cs and AI-specific clauses as required for payroll features (training/usage of data & metadata, output/IP ownership, acceptable use, transparency.
• 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, particularly in HR tech or payroll contexts
• Shipped at least one AI feature in production and built the accompanying legal/governance framework
• Deep payroll compliance knowledge across multiple jurisdictions
• Experience working remotely

Practicals

• You’ll report to: Managing Counsel, Product and Commercial; Legal Team
• Team: Legal (Product Legal)
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Benefits

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• budget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships)
• mental health support services
• stock options
• home office budget & IT equipment

Remote's Total Rewards 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.

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

$66,300—$186,400 USD

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

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

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