Senior Counsel, Employment – EMEA
OpenAI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dublin • 🇮🇪 Ireland
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Senior
About the role
- Provide strategic employment law advice and counseling across the EMEA region, supporting rapid workforce growth and day-to-day people decisions.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and cross-functional partners, including Legal, People, Communications, and Global Affairs.
- Advise on and manage works council, collective consultation, and employee representative matters across EMEA, including restructurings, reorganizations, and other workforce changes.
- Guide complex, multi-jurisdictional employment issues, delivering practical legal advice that enables thoughtful and compliant business outcomes.
- Proactively identify, assess, and manage employment-related legal and regulatory risks across EMEA.
- Help design, scale, and operationalize compliant employment practices, policies, and frameworks aligned with the company’s growth strategy.
- Partner closely with global employment legal colleagues to ensure consistency of approach while respecting local law requirements.
- Manage and coordinate external counsel across EMEA, as needed, to support specialized local advice and execution.
Requirements
- 8+ years of combined EMEA employment legal experience at fast-paced technology companies and/or law firms
- Ability to function effectively in a complex, multinational company
- Extensive expertise in European employment laws and practices and advising on complex, cross-border employment issues. Experience advising on mergers & acquisitions, works councils, unions, and TUPE preferred.
- Strong expertise on employment law aspects of global growth, and ensuring compliant market entry and workforce integration across EMEA jurisdictions.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance to new employees
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
employment lawlegal adviceregulatory compliancerisk managementemployment practicespolicy designcross-border employment issuesmergers and acquisitionsworks councilsTUPE
Soft skills
strategic advisingcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingleadershiporganizational skillscross-functional partnershipproactive identificationassessmentmanagement