Senior Counsel, Governance

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🌐 Spain, Portugal, +1 more countries – Remote

🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote 🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

💵 €105k - €125k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Oyster

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2020

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

👥 HR Tech

Consulting • Logistics • HR Tech

Oyster® is an automated global employment platform that simplifies the process of hiring and managing international talent. With coverage in 180+ countries, Oyster provides solutions for global payroll, compliance, employee benefits, and talent mobility, allowing companies to onboard and manage both full-time employees and contractors efficiently. By leveraging deep local knowledge and expert guidance, Oyster helps businesses navigate the complexities of international hiring and scaling their workforce globally.

📋 Description

• Lead governance and structuring decisions for each new direct entity launch, determining the right corporate form, ownership structure, and licensing pathway for each jurisdiction. • Personally drive the practical work of standing up new entities, coordinating filings, registered agents/local service providers, director and officer appointments, bank account and licensing paperwork, and other set-up tasks needed to get each entity live and compliant, ahead of dedicated launch support coming online later in the project. • Conduct jurisdiction-specific legal and regulatory research to identify entity, licensing, and governance requirements ahead of each launch. • Draft, review, and maintain foundational corporate documentation (formation documents, board minutes, governance policies, powers of attorney) for each new entity, keeping a clean, audit-ready governance framework from day one. • Partner closely with the Global Expansion launch team (Legal, Finance, Operations, People, Payroll, and Treasury) to sequence and de-risk entity launches against an aggressive project timeline. • Identify governance, licensing, and regulatory risk early in the launch process, and build practical, business-first solutions to keep launches on track. • Document repeatable processes and playbooks for entity formation and governance so this knowledge transfers cleanly to the team that takes over ongoing entity maintenance once this engagement ends.

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified lawyer with 7+ years' experience in corporate governance, entity formation, and multi-jurisdictional entity management, ideally including SaaS, tech, or EOR/HR-tech environments. • Demonstrated experience personally establishing and maintaining corporate entities across multiple jurisdictions, not just advising on it, but doing the hands-on execution work (filings, registered agents, licensing applications, and similar). • Demonstrated experience interacting directly with external counsel, corporate secretarial providers, regulators, and registered agents across multiple jurisdictions. • Comfortable holding a power of attorney to represent company directors/officers where needed. • Ability to operate with significant autonomy on a fast-moving, ambiguous, high-stakes project with minimal ramp-up time, and to be available for an 11-month, fixed-term engagement. • Strong judgment translating legal and regulatory requirements into practical, sequenced execution plans for a non-legal, cross-functional audience. • Experience thriving in fast-paced, high-growth, or startup environments.

🏖️ Benefits

• 40 days off per year (including holidays and vacation), or more if required by your country. • Access Plumm, our mental well-being service. • Each month, receive a wellbeing allowance in your ThanksBen wallet to spend on a wide range of options. • All new parents are eligible for at least three months’ paid leave, with job protection for up to 12 months or as required locally. • Receive a stipend for your laptop and home office equipment to get you set up quickly.