Senior Employment Counsel – International Lifecycle

Justworks

Senior Employment Counsel overseeing sensitive employment lifecycle issues for a global EOR business. Managing legal support and collaboration across multiple departments and jurisdictions.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSenior💰 €98,000 - €127,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the Legal workstream for sensitive, complex, or escalated EOR lifecycle matters that require Legal involvement.
Serve as the legal point of contact for complex termination and offboarding matters that require Legal involvement.
Partner with regional employment counsel to translate local legal requirements into practical guidance.
Build and maintain lifecycle standards, playbooks, escalation paths, controls, decision frameworks, and training.
Advise Product and Operations on lifecycle legal requirements, risk parameters, workflow logic, case-management controls, customer-facing guidance, knowledge bases, and standard operating procedures.
Monitor lifecycle-related legal and operational developments across key markets and help update internal guidance, training, and processes as needed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent law degree and admitted to practice in at least one relevant jurisdiction.
Minimum of 5+ years of substantive employment law experience, preferably including in-house experience, international employment counseling, EOR, PEO, global mobility, HR technology, or other cross-border employment operations.
Deep experience advising on employee lifecycle matters, including complex terminations, performance management, leave, employee relations, employment documentation, recurring compliance, and dispute risk across multiple jurisdictions.
Strong understanding of how employment-law requirements should be translated into operational workflows, product requirements, customer guidance, and internal controls.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders in a practical and concise way.
Fluent in English; proficiency in another relevant language is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

wellness program offerings
company retreats

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Hard Skills & Tools

Juris Doctoremployment lawlegal compliancecase managementrisk managementemployee lifecycleperformance managementemployee relationsdispute resolutioncross-border employment

Soft Skills

communicationadvisingcollaborationproblem-solvingtrainingguidancetranslation of legal conceptsorganizational skillsattention to detailstakeholder engagement