Senior Legal Specialist

**About Remote**: **All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us** **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 **Legal Associate - Employment (internally we call this a Legal Specialist)**, joining our Legal Team as an Employment Law Specialist. We are looking for a talented and eager employment lawyer, who is interested in helping with our team's mission, namely: _supercharging our business through the provision of excellent legal advice and implementation of solid legal processes._ 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 is increasing its global footprint, every expansion into a new country brings myriad legal issues. The Legal Team is responsible for the legal soundness of our business models, contractual agreements with clients and their staff (i.e. the employees we hire under our "Employer of Record" service - our "external employees") and data protection compliance amongst other areas. More specifically, we support: - Our Sales team in their negotiations with clients (this includes optimising the contracting process - who doesn't love a good playbook?); - Our Employee Lifecycle team in their support for external employees (if you want to know how to get a social security number for someone in Spain, this is the place to be); and - Our International Expansion team, providing them with legal support as we expand into new territories; - Our People team in managing internal employees and ensuring compliance across jurisdictions. We want to empower team members to Own (one of our five core values) their projects and tasks. They nevertheless have support, leadership and guidance from our General Counsel who has run Legal teams in 2 fast-paced scale ups. **Key responsibilities**: - Advise the Employee Lifecycle Team to quickly and compliantly onboard, manage and off-board Remote's employer of record employees - Develop excellent template contracts and knowledge resources - Support our People team regarding internal employee matters - Ensure Remote operates a compliant workforce across all territories - Help with strategic thinking around our business model and future opportunities - Solve legal issues rather than escalating problems **What you bring**: - Senior qualified lawyer - preference for qualification in Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands. - Extensive experience in advisory employment work including the entire employee lifecycle (recruitment, HR policies, benefits, and terminations are the key areas) - Interested in working for a tech-scaleup and specifically HR-tech - Keen to understand a whole range of international employment law challenges rather than just focusing on the territory in which you've trained. - Writes and speaks fluent English **Bonus points**: - Previous in-house experience - Understanding of employment agreements in multiple countries - Experience in contentious employment work - Fluent in multiple languages - Experience working remotely **Practicals**: - **You'll report to**: Head of Legal; Legal Team - **Team**: Legal - **Location**: Anywhere in the World - **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. **Benefits**: **How you'll plan your day (and life)**: 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. **Application process**: - Interview with recruiter - Interview with members of the Legal team - Interview with members of the Lifecycle and People team - Written exercise - Interview with Head of legal **How to apply**: Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format. See how to convert your CV to PDF here. 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.