.**About Remote**:**All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!****The position**:This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Legal Counsel - Employment (internally we refer to this as an Employment Specialist), joining our **Employment** team as a part of the wider Legal Team.**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. LATAM region.- Support the Employment Team on jurisdictions globally where needed, including managing or contributing to internal projects, particularly Spanish-speaking jurisdictions.- Help improve our processes, templates and knowledge resources.- Promote a "compliance-focus" approach in everything we do.- Provide solutions rather than only escalating problems