Legal Counsel

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!

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 Counsel - Employment, joining our Legal Team as an Employment Law Counsel. 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.
• The Employment Legal Team principally supports:
  1. Our Employee Lifecycle team in their support regarding external employees globally;
  2. Our People team in managing internal employees globally and ensuring compliance across jurisdictions
  3. Our wider Legal Team in dealing with all types of global employment issues (both advisory and contentious disputes, i.e. litigation and arbitration).

What you bring

• Experience as a UK or Ireland employment lawyer post-qualification
• Experience in advisory and litigation employment law 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 solely focusing on the territory in which you’ve trained
• Ability to learn and master Remote's communication application (Slack), contract management system (Juro), documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive, etc.), and task management system (KissFlow)
• Writes and speaks fluent English, strong knowledge of another language is an advantage
• Ideally both law firm and in-house experience but this is not a strict requirement
• Ideally international employment experience but this is not a strict requirement - willingness to learn and handle international employment issues is required
• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus

Key Responsibilities

• Take ownership of employment legal work for the jurisdiction(s) where you are qualified, with a particular focus on the UK and Ireland, and broader EMEA region.
• Support the Employment Legal Team on jurisdictions globally where needed, including managing or contributing to internal projects and instructing local counsels
• Help improve our processes, templates and knowledge resources
• Promote a “compliance-focus” approach in everything we do
• Provide solutions rather than escalating problems

Practicals

• You'll report to: Managing Counsel, Employment
• Direct reports: N/A
• Team: Legal- Employment
• Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritise applications from EMEA region time zone.
• 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.

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 whi