Senior Legal Specialist - Employment US

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space as a Legal Counsel - Employment (internally we call this a Legal Specialist), joining our Legal Team as an Employment Law Specialist. We are looking for a talented and eager employment lawyer, who is interested in helping with our team’s mission, namely: supercharging our business through the provision of excellent legal advice and implementation of solid legal processes.

Remote’s well established Legal team is a bunch of friendly, talented highly motivated lawyers from a whole host of different countries, with some awesome experiences.

As Remote is increasing its global footprint, every expansion into a new country brings myriad legal issues. The Legal Team is responsible for the legal soundness of our business models, contractual agreements with clients and their staff (i.e. the employees we hire under our “Employer of Record” service – our “external employees”) and data protection compliance amongst other areas.

More specifically, we support:

1. Our Sales team in their negotiations with clients (this includes optimising the contracting process – who doesn’t love a good playbook?);
2. Our Employee Lifecycle team in their support for external employees (if you want to know how to get a social security number for someone in Spain, this is the place to be!); and
3. Our International Expansion team, providing them with legal support as we expand into new territories;
4. Our People team in managing internal employees and ensuring compliance across jurisdictions.

We want to empower team members to Own (one of our five core values) their projects and tasks.  They nevertheless have support, leadership and guidance from our General Counsel who has run Legal teams in two fast-paced scale ups.

• Advise the Employee Lifecycle Team to quickly and compliantly onboard, manage and off-board Remote’s employer of record employees
• Develop excellent template contracts and knowledge resources
• Support our People team regarding internal employee matters
• Ensure Remote operates a compliant workforce across all territories
• Help with strategic thinking around our business model and future opportunities
• Solve legal issues rather than escalating problems

• Senior US qualified employment lawyer with previous in-house experience
• Extensive experience in advisory employment work including the entire employee lifecycle (recruitment, HR policies, benefits, and terminations are the key areas)
• Interested in working for a tech-scaleup and specifically HR-tech
• Keen to understand a whole range of international employment law challenges rather than just focusing on the territory in which you’ve trained.
• Ability to learn and master Remote's communication application (Slack), contract management system (Juro), documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive, etc.), and task management system (Asana)
• Writes and speaks fluent English

• You'll report to: VP General Counsel
• Team: Legal
• Location: US
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

For U.S. applicants: Across all US locations, the base salary range for this full-time position is $110,400 - $126,800 plus eligibility for equity. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

We offer a generous benefits package to all full-time employees. In the U.S. this includes: a 401(k) plan + 4% employer match, unlimited paid time off, paid sick leave in excess of local requirements, paid parental leave, FSA, HSA, health, dental and vision plans for you .Click here for more information on our global employee benefits.

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Interview with future manager
3. Interviews with members of the legal team, Lifecycle and People 
4. Written exercise
5. Interview with VP General Counsel
6. Prior employment verification check (Read more at remote.com/employment-checks)

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