Managing Counsel - Employment Legal (US)

**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. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. 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 **Managing Counsel, Employment Legal (US)**, joining our Legal Team as part of the Employment Specialists. 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 also scale across 90\+ jurisdictions. This is a backfill role. In this senior individual contributor position, you will own complex, high\-impact employment law matters, influence cross\-functional stakeholders, and help scale legal support across Remote's global employment operations. More specifically, our **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. **What you bring** ------------------ * 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. * Writes and speaks fluent 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. **Key Responsibilities** ----------------------