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Senior Employment Counsel, International Lifecycle

5 hours, 23 minutes ago
United Kingdom
Full-time
Senior
Legal Counsel
Operations
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Justworks

Justworks

Justworks offers simple PEO & payroll solutions for small businesses, handling payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance in one platform to free entrepreneurs to focus on growth.

Professional Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012
$143M raised
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Description

  • Lead the legal workstream for sensitive, complex, or escalated international EOR lifecycle matters, including terminations, redundancies, settlements, leave, accommodations, pay equity claims, employee relations issues, performance management, and employment disputes.
  • Serve as the legal point of contact for complex termination and offboarding matters, helping teams assess risk, define strategy, align stakeholders, and move matters 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 internal teams.
  • Build and maintain lifecycle standards, playbooks, escalation paths, controls, decision frameworks, and training to support consistent handling of routine matters and timely legal escalation.
  • Advise Product and Operations on lifecycle legal requirements, risk parameters, workflow logic, case-management controls, customer-facing guidance, knowledge bases, and SOPs.
  • 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.
  • Develop and deliver practical training and guidance on EOR lifecycle matters for internal stakeholders and, as appropriate, external audiences.
  • Manage outside counsel on complex lifecycle matters, market-specific escalations, employment disputes, and operational guidance with a focus on practical, cost-effective advice.
  • Monitor legal and operational developments across key markets and update internal guidance, training, and processes as needed.

Requirements

  • Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent law degree and admission to practice in at least one relevant jurisdiction.
  • 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 consistently.
  • 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.
  • Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated time management, organizational, and analytical skills, including the ability to manage multiple complex matters across time zones.
  • Experience managing outside counsel and obtaining practical, cost-effective legal advice across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Fluent in English; proficiency in another relevant language is a plus.
  • Occasional travel is required.

Benefits

  • Base wage range targeted at 149,000-192,000 GBP per year.
  • Welcoming and casual work environment.
  • Great benefits.
  • Wellness program offerings.
  • Company retreats.
  • Opportunity to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community.
  • Flexible remote work indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
  • Accommodation support for candidates and employees with disabilities or religious needs.

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