Employment Counsel (EMEA)
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FigmaLegal
Remotely in the United KingdomFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years PQE
- Required Skills
- Stakeholder management
Requirements
- UK-qualified with 8+ years PQE.
- Experience at a top-tier law firm and in-house legal department practising employment law.
- Significant experience providing practical, commercially focused employment law advice across EMEA.
- Expertise in employee relations, investigations, works councils, consultation requirements, restructurings, redundancies, and dismissals.
- Proven ability to build trusted relationships with People, Legal, and business leaders.
- Experience designing and scaling employment policies, programmes, processes, and documentation in a growing organisation.
- Ability to leverage technology and AI-enabled tools for legal operations.
- Exceptional communication skills and intellectual curiosity.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary employment legal advisor for EMEA and support other regional and global employment matters.
- Partner closely with People and business leaders on strategic employment and workforce matters.
- Draft, revise, and update employment and benefits-related documentation and agreements.
- Advise senior stakeholders on complex employee relations, disciplinary, grievance and investigation matters.
- Identify and operationalise compliance-based requirements and build scalable employment-related policies, playbooks, and templates.
- Support international growth, including expansion into new jurisdictions and workforce scaling initiatives.
- Manage employment-related litigation including strategy, discovery, drafting, and coordination with external counsel.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including legal, accounting, procurement, and communications.
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