The opportunity
The Employment Legal team works closely with People Business Partners, Team Member Relations, Legal colleagues, and other teams to navigate employment requirements across multiple jurisdictions, manage disputes and investigations, build clear, scalable processes for an…
What you'll do
Provide senior, practical employment-law advice to team members and: stakeholders across GitLab, balancing legal risk, business objectives, and GitLab’s values, serving as a subject-matter resource for legal colleagues and cross-functional partners.
Directly manage matters across the employment lifecycle, including recruiting: and onboarding, compensation, performance management, leave management, employee relations, works council processes, organizational changes, separation, and post-employment issues.
Directly negotiate and engage with works councils and employee representative: bodies across EMEA jurisdictions, and lead consultation processes for organizational change.
Represent GitLab in, or directly manage outside counsel appearances for,: labor courts, employment tribunals, and agency investigations, including case strategy, fact development, witness preparation, and settlement decisions.
Counsel People Business Partners, Team Member Relations partners, and: business leaders on complex and sensitive team-member relations concerns.
Draft, review, negotiate, and maintain employment agreements, separation: agreements, policies, templates, and related documentation across multiple jurisdictions.
What they're looking for
- Own employment compliance across EMEA and incorporate outside-counsel input: into strategies that match the business.
- Monitor and analyze changes in employment, privacy, and related laws;: identify legal risks; and translate developments into practical recommendations and implementable guidance.
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of scalable employment-law: processes, systems, playbooks, templates, and supporting documentation for the Legal and People teams.
- Provide employment advice in regions outside EMEA as needed.
