Senior Director and Global Lead Employment Counsel

What you’ll do:

• Serve as the lead legal advisor on employment law matters globally, with a primary focus on the U.S., France, Spain, UK, Germany, and APAC regions.
• Provide strategic, practical legal counsel on a range of employment issues including hiring, compensation, benefits, performance management, employee relations, internal investigations, and terminations.
• Oversee and manage employment litigation and administrative matters in coordination with external counsel.
• Advise on and help implement global employment policies, employee handbooks, codes of conduct, and training programs that reflect legal and cultural requirements across regions.
• Monitor legal and regulatory changes in key jurisdictions and advise stakeholders on compliance and risk mitigation strategies.
• Partner with HR and other internal teams on sensitive employee relations matters, including workplace investigations and organizational change.
• Support employment aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions, including due diligence and post-close integration.
• Develop and maintain scalable legal processes and resources to support a growing and distributed workforce.
• Work with our Legal Operations Team to promote simplicity, automation and scalability
• Provide training and thought leadership on employment law best practices across the organization.
• Effectively select and manage outside counsel

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience practicing employment law, with at least 5 years advising high-growth or mature tech companies, including in-house experience.
• Significant expertise in managing global employment legal work, ideally including the U.S., France (including CSE matters), Spain, Germany, UK and APAC regions.
• You have worked in a global company and can find nimble solutions to unique issues. 
• You demonstrate a highly commercial approach led by the core value that our stakeholders are our partners.  You love working in a fast-moving, business-oriented environment typical of high-growth companies.
• You enjoy working as a member of a team and collaborating effectively in a largely remote team. You have a proven track record managing international employment litigation, regulatory matters, and internal investigations.
• You have experience supporting employment-related aspects of M&A and organizational restructuring.
• You have excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across all levels of the company. You can read the room and influence the best course of action for the company while at the same time maintaining and growing the partnership with your primary stakeholders.
• You are comfortable working independently and managing ambiguity in a high-growth, global tech environment.