Senior Legal Counsel - Core

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Remote</strong></h2> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.<br><br><span class="discussion-id-2f7cb4da-dab4-8068-a80f-001c50b2d808 suggestion-update notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="0">With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.</span><br><br>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.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!</span></div></div><h2><strong>What this job can offer you</strong></h2> <p>This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space as a <strong>Senior Legal Counsel</strong>, joining our Legal team. We are looking for a talented and eager lawyer, who is interested in helping with our team’s mission: supercharging our business through the provision of excellent legal advice and implementation of solid legal processes.</p> <p>Remote’s <strong>Legal Team</strong> 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.</p> <p>The Core Team serves as the cornerstone of the company’s legal and operational support, closely aligned with the Legal Team’s vision of providing strategic, scalable support at speed that drives business growth.</p> <p>Acting as the first line of defense, the Core Team ensures that routine legal processes as well as Knowledge Management and Policy Keeping are managed efficiently and effectively, with speed. We optimise the use of broader legal resources by allowing specialised legal sub-teams to concentrate on high-priority, complex issues and enable the broader organisation to focus on its strategic objectives with minimal friction and without bottlenecks.</p> <p>As a <strong>Senior Legal Counsel</strong>, you will support the Legal Core Team in these tasks while taking ownership of complex legal projects. You will play a crucial role in shaping the legal department and mentoring junior team members.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2><strong>What you bring</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Experienced and qualified lawyer.</li> <li>Interested in working for a tech-scaleup and specifically HR-tech.</li> <li>Extensive experience in legal practice, preferably in labor and employment law.</li> <li>Ability to learn and master Remote's communication application (Slack), contract management system, documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive), and task management systems (Notion, ZenDesk).</li> <li>Eager to learn about different legal systems and employment laws (as we are a global company).</li> <li>Creative legal thinker – we often need innovative, out-of-the-box solutions.</li> <li>Excellent communication skills: writes and speaks fluent English; additional languages would be helpful. Able to distill complex issues into concise and clear language.</li> <li>Proven ability to work autonomously and lead legal projects.</li> <li>Proven experience in mentoring and guiding junior legal professionals.</li> <li>It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Key Responsibilities&nbsp;</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Support and partner with different internal stakeholders such as Sales team, Customer Experience, Onboarding, Lifecycle, and other operational teams at Remote. Effectively manage internal and external client expectations and adopt a customer centric approach.</li> <li>Proactively identify areas for improvement and help us to develop excellent template contracts, playbooks, standard operating procedures and knowledge resources for all our products, with a focus in the EOR product.</li> <li>Conduct in-depth legal research on new products and new laws, identifying potential risks and opportunities.</li> <li>Drive the development and enhancement of the legal function within Remote, implementing best practices and innovative solutions.</li> <li>Mentor, train, and support junior legal team members, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.</li> <li>Manage relationships with Local Counsel when legal matters need to be escalated to external lawyers.</li> <li>Manage local counsel and lead litigations and collections matters, when necessary.</li> <li>Proactively identify and propose innovative solutions to legal problems and processes.</li> <li>Expertly manage internal and client escalations where necessary.</li> <li>Collaborate with the Legal Ops team in efficiency and AI projects related to your areas of expertise</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Practicals</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>You'll report to:</strong> Managing Counsel, Core Team</li> <li><strong>Team:</strong> Legal: Core Team</li> <li><strong>Location</strong>: Anywhere in the world</li> <li><strong>Start date:</strong> As soon as possible</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Application process</strong></h2> <ol> <li>Interview with recruiter</li> <li>Interview with Hiring Manager</li> <li>Written exercise</li> <li>Team Interview with Associate General Counsel and team member(s)</li> <li><a href="https://app.notion.com/p/145cb4dadab4805386fbed0892ae0f53?pvs=21">Bar Raiser</a> interview</li> <li><a href="https://www.notion.so/remotecom/Veremark-Remote-96e108c037b8423cbd4c3f07a1f9b38b?d=41ac176d9f0f490b83d7bf56dcd5bf11#aeb36272c9bd49b1b490f2ae7fc76552">Prior employment verification check</a></li> </ol><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>Remote's <a href="https://www.notion.so/remotecom/people-Total-Rewards-1945bce8d3924ece9421ba8630f57b0c">Total Rewards philosophy</a> is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair <span class="link-annotation-unknown-block-id-1691622878">equity</span><span class="discussion-level-1 discussion-id-f2a82bc4-09e4-4a71-ad93-755b1d26a690 notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="3"> pay </span>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.</p> <p>At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.&nbsp; 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.<br><br>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.<br><br><em data-stringify-type=