Managing Counsel, Employment Legal - France

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 Managing Counsel, Employment (Individual Contributor), joining our Legal Team. We are looking for a talented and eager employment 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.

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”), legally compliant employee management and data protection compliance amongst other areas.

The team is built of talented highly motivated lawyers from a whole host of different countries, with some awesome experiences and we are looking for a great match for them. This role is as an employment specialist within the Employment, Product & Commercial Legal team, a sub-team of our Legal Team.

Our Employment team is primarily responsible for:

• Supporting our Employee Lifecycle and People teams in managing internal and external employees;
• Ensuring Remote products’ and platform’s compliance with employment laws across jurisdictions; and
• Assisting other teams such as our International Operations team with expanding into new territories and and Product team in streamlining our product.

What you bring

• Qualified French lawyer (mandatory)
• Experience in advisory and contentious employment law including the entire employee lifecycle (recruitment, HR policies, benefits, and terminations are the key areas) in multiple jurisdictions
• Passionate about tech (particularly HR tech) products
• Previous in-house experience in an HR Tech, IT or SAAS company is a strong plus
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills
• Ability to switch between multiple different projects
• Well-versed in modern business and legal tools such as Slack and Notion
• Eager to learn about different legal systems
• Writes and speaks fluent English and French
• It is not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus

Key Responsibilities 

• Advise on a wide range of employment law issues across multiple jurisdictions, including advising on complex internal and external employee matters
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure timely and effective completion of projects, managing risks and aligning with business objectives
• Contribute to the Legal Team's knowledge base and expertise while working to build your own unique knowledge base within the Team
• Master employment law and contracts for particular region or regions (EMEA, APAC, etc.) and different employment law subject matters (terminations, employee management, onboardings, compliance, litigation etc.)
• Identify company-wide employment law legal issues and work with key internal stakeholders and external partners to implement efficient and effective solutions
• Contribute to the Legal team’s sustainable growth and structure, raising internal awareness to the legal teams’s work and expertise
• Build relationships with key senior stakeholders across the organisation, evolving the role of the Legal team in order to add maximum value to the business and improve Remote’s service and product

Practicals

• You'll report to: Managing Counsel, Employment Legal
• Direct reports: N/A
• Team: Legal - Commercial, Product & Employment Legal
• Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will p