Salary
💰 $54,400 - $122,350 per year
About the role
- 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.
- 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.
- Conduct in-depth legal research on new products and new laws, identifying potential risks and opportunities.
- Drive the development and enhancement of the legal function within Remote, implementing best practices and innovative solutions.
- Mentor, train, and support junior legal team members, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.
- Manage relationships with Local Counsel when legal matters need to be escalated to external lawyers.
- Manage local counsel and lead litigations and collections matters, when necessary.
- Proactively identify and propose innovative solutions to legal problems and processes.
- Expertly manage internal and client escalations where necessary.
- Collaborate with the Legal Ops team in efficiency and AI projects related to your areas of expertise
Requirements
- Experienced and qualified lawyer in US or Canada with Canadian employment law experience.
- Interested in working for a tech-scaleup and specifically HR-tech.
- Extensive experience in legal practice, preferably in labor and employment law.
- Ability to learn and master Remote's communication application (Slack), contract management system, documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive), and task management systems (Notion, ZenDesk).
- Eager to learn about different legal systems and employment laws (as we are a global company).
- Creative legal thinker – we often need innovative, out-of-the-box solutions.
- Excellent communication skills: writes and speaks fluent English; additional languages would be helpful. Able to distill complex issues into concise and clear language.
- Proven ability to work autonomously and lead legal projects.
- Proven experience in mentoring and guiding junior legal professionals.
- It\'s not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus