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Justworks

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

HR Tech • SaaS • B2B

Justworks is a comprehensive HR platform that empowers small businesses by providing scalable solutions in HR management, payroll processing, and employee benefits. With a focus on simplifying administrative tasks, Justworks enables business owners to hire, manage, and grow their teams while ensuring compliance and offering human support for all HR needs.

📋 Description

• Lead the Legal workstream for sensitive, complex, or escalated EOR lifecycle matters that require Legal involvement. • Serve as the legal point of contact for complex termination and offboarding matters that require Legal involvement. • Partner with regional employment counsel to translate local legal requirements into practical guidance. • Build and maintain lifecycle standards, playbooks, escalation paths, controls, decision frameworks, and training. • Advise Product and Operations on lifecycle legal requirements, risk parameters, workflow logic, case-management controls, customer-facing guidance, knowledge bases, and standard operating procedures. • Monitor lifecycle-related legal and operational developments across key markets and help update internal guidance, training, and processes as needed.

🎯 Requirements

• 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. • Strong understanding of how employment-law requirements should be translated into operational workflows, product requirements, customer guidance, and internal controls. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders in a practical and concise way. • Fluent in English; proficiency in another relevant language is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• wellness program offerings • company retreats

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