The opportunity
Do you enjoy turning complex international employment issues into clear, practical guidance that helps teams move with confidence? Are you energized by helping a global EOR business handle sensitive employment lifecycle matters with sound judgment, consistency, and care?
What you'll do
Lead the Legal workstream for sensitive, complex, or escalated EOR lifecycle: matters that require Legal involvement, including complex terminations, redundancies, settlements, protected leave, accommodations, pay equity claims, employee relations issues, performance management, and employment disputes, in partnership with regional employment counsel and outside counsel as needed.
Serve as the legal point of contact for complex termination and offboarding: matters that require Legal involvement, helping teams evaluate risk, define strategy, align stakeholders, prepare required documentation, and move matters from intake through resolution.
Partner with regional employment counsel to translate local legal: requirements into practical guidance for Operations, Customer Service, Payroll, Benefits, Product, Sales, and other teams, while driving consistency across markets.
Build and maintain lifecycle standards, playbooks, escalation paths,: controls, decision frameworks, and training based on recurring matter patterns, with a focus on enabling operational teams to handle routine matters consistently and ensuring higher-risk matters reach Legal at the right time.
Advise Product and Operations on lifecycle legal requirements, risk: parameters, workflow logic, case-management controls, customer-facing guidance, knowledge bases, and standard operating procedures.
Support Customer Service and Sales on complex EOR lifecycle questions from: prospective and existing customers, including termination risk, performance management, leave, documentation, timing, and market-specific constraints.
What they're looking for
- Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent law degree and admitted to practice in at least one relevant jurisdiction.
- Minimum of 5+ years of substantive employment law experience, preferably: including in-house experience, international employment counseling, EOR, PEO, global mobility, HR technology, or other cross-border employment operations.
- Deep experience advising on employee lifecycle matters, including complex: terminations, performance management, leave, employee relations, employment documentation, recurring compliance, and dispute risk across multiple jurisdictions.
- Experience supporting an EOR business, global employment platform,: international HR operations, or multi-country employment counseling is strongly preferred.
- Proven ability to build legal standards, risk frameworks, escalation paths,: playbooks, policies, knowledge bases, and SOPs that enable non-legal teams to operate with consistency.
- Strong understanding of how employment-law requirements should be translated: into operational workflows, product requirements, customer guidance, and internal controls.
- Sound judgment in managing legal, operational, customer, employee, financial,: and reputational risk in sensitive employment matters.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to: explain complex legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders in a practical and concise way.
