Managing Counsel - Employment Legal (US)

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join Remote and make a personal impact in the global HR-tech space as a Managing Counsel, Employment Legal (US), part of our Legal Team within the Employment Specialists group. Remote's Legal Team delivers pragmatic, innovative legal solutions while protecting Remote from unacceptable risk. As Remote grows and adds new products, the volume and complexity of legal issues scale across 90+ jurisdictions. This is a backfill, senior individual-contributor role where you will own complex, high-impact employment law matters, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and help scale legal support across Remote’s global employment operations.

The Employment Specialists team:

• Supports our Employee Lifecycle and People teams in managing internal and external employees;
• Ensures Remote's compliance with employment laws across jurisdictions; and
• Assists other teams such as our International Operations team with local entity compliance and the Product team in streamlining our product and ensuring labor law compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic employment law advice across multiple jurisdictions, covering both internal and external employee matters.
• Lead on complex advisory and contentious employment matters across the employee lifecycle, including both internal and external employees.
• Identify company-wide legal issues and implement scalable solutions in partnership with stakeholders.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives, driving alignment across Legal, People, Operations, and other teams.
• Shape team knowledge standards, building subject-matter expertise and creating reusable resources.
• Set best practices and governance frameworks to improve efficiency and legal service delivery.
• Manage external local counsel and oversee complex employment projects across jurisdictions.

Requirements

• US-qualified lawyer; this is mandatory.
• Solid experience as a senior legal employment counsel, with a strong track record handling advisory and contentious matters across the employee lifecycle.
• Experience leading on complex internal and external employee matters independently.
• Experience advising across multiple jurisdictions.
• Good understanding and experience with tech and HR tech products.
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Technologically competent with Slack, CLM tools, Notion, Google Drive, AI tools, Zendesk, or equivalent tools.
• In-house legal experience preferred.
• Experience in a tech or fast-paced start-up environment preferred.
• Fluent in multiple languages preferred.
• Experience working remotely preferred.

Practicals

You will report to the Managing Counsel, Employment. Team: Legal. Location: AMER preferred. Start date: As soon as possible.

Pay

The annual salary range for this full-time position is $149,150—$223,650 USD. At Remote, we use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while hiring globally. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. All compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case-by-case basis.

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook. Some benefits/perks available to all Remoters include:

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces