Employment Legal Counsel

**About Remote**:
**All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us**

**What this job can offer you**:
This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space as a **Legal Counsel - Employment**, joining our Legal Team as an Employment Law Counsel. 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, our external employees working with them and data protection compliance amongst other areas.

More specifically, the Employment Legal Team principally supports:

- Our Employee Lifecycle team in their support regarding external employees globally;
- Our People team in managing internal employees globally and ensuring compliance across jurisdictions; and
- Our wider Legal Team in dealing with all types of global employment issues (both advisory and contentious disputes, i.e. litigation and arbitration).

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 Senior Director, Global Employment and Disputes Counsel, Employment Legal Team and wider Legal Team.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Take ownership of employment legal work for the jurisdiction(s) where you are qualified and prioritise ownership of your regional area/time zone, i.e. APAC region (including Australia and New Zealand).
- Support the Employment Team on jurisdictions globally where needed, including managing or contributing to internal projects
- Help improve our processes, templates and knowledge resources
- Promote a “compliance-focus” approach in everything we do
- Provide solutions rather than only escalating problems

**What you bring**:

- Several years of experience as a qualified employment lawyer in APAC (common law jurisdiction preferred)
- 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.
- Writes and speaks fluent English, and knowledge of other languages is an advantage

**Practicals**:

- **You'll report to**: Senior Director (based in APAC)
- **Team**: Legal
- **Location**: APAC (preference for Singapore, Hong Kong or Australia)
- **Start date**: As soon as possible

**Application process**:
- (async) Profile review by Employment Team Member
- Interview with two Employment Team Members
- Interview with line-manager Senior Director
- Written exercise
- Interview with VP General Counsel and a People Member

**Remote Compensation Philosophy**:
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.

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**Benefits**:

- work from anywhere
- unlimited personal time off (minimum 4 weeks)
- quarterly company-wide day off for self care
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- mental health support services
- stock options
- learning budget
- home office budget & IT equipment
- budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

**How you’ll plan your day (and life)**:
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your **life-work balance** is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

**How to apply**:
Please fill out the form
- and upload your CV with a PDF format.
- If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help