Senior Counsel – Labor & Employment

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🌐 United Kingdom, Ireland, +2 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote 🇨🇾 Cyprus – Remote 🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Crypto • Finance • Fintech

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange is a cryptocurrency platform that facilitates the buying and selling of over 200 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2011, Kraken provides a comprehensive suite of features for both beginner and advanced traders, such as advanced trading interfaces and margin trading. The platform emphasizes industry-leading security, deep liquidity, and 24/7 customer support, making it a trusted choice for users worldwide. Kraken caters to individual investors as well as institutional clients, offering services like OTC trading and custody. The company is committed to transparency with its proof of reserves and mission-driven values. Kraken operates globally, supporting clients in over 190 countries, with a quarterly trading volume exceeding $207 billion. However, users are advised of the high risk of crypto investments and the lack of regulation in some jurisdictions.

📋 Description

• Augment Payward’s Labor & Employment legal team as the EU and UK subject matter expert • Provide local-law employment advice in European time zones and support MENA and APAC matters with local counsel • Own recurring EU and UK employment matters, including worker classification, separations, employee relations, executive compensation, and wage-and-hour issues • Advise executive leadership, employment counsel, and the Payward Experience team • Develop works council, collective consultation, pay transparency, and employee representative processes • Support restructurings, acquisitions, M&A due diligence, and post-closing European workforce integration • Create and localize employment policies and procedures and deliver related training • Advise on GDPR, UK GDPR, and cross-border HR and recruiting data transfers • Support workplace investigations involving whistleblower, discrimination, and performance issues • Advise on European expansion, EOR, direct employment, entity decisions, global mobility, and contingent workforce matters • Advise on trade secrets and restrictive covenants in the EU and UK • Manage local outside counsel on legal opinions and pre-litigation matters • Monitor global labor and employment trends, including crypto-industry developments

🎯 Requirements

• EU- or UK-qualified attorney working out of the EU or UK • 8+ years of legal experience advising in the EU, UK and other jurisdictions on employment, labor, and executive compensation issues • In-house and law firm experience with high-growth scaling and mature, large-enterprise environments • Broad international labor and employment background • Experience advising on works councils, collective consultation, and employee representative bodies in the EU and/or UK • Experience advising on employee and candidate data privacy issues under GDPR and UK GDPR • Hands-on proficiency using generative AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT in day-to-day legal work • Sound judgment verifying AI outputs against local law and protecting confidentiality, privilege, and personal data • Proactive, entrepreneurial mindset and opportunity-making attitude • Interest in the crypto industry (nice to have) • Experience in fintech, crypto, or regulated financial services (nice to have) • Experience with MENA and/or APAC employment markets (nice to have) • Experience with acquisition due diligence, transfer-of-undertakings rules, and post-closing workforce integration (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Opportunity to work with a global/worldwide workforce • Diverse and inclusive workplace • Equal opportunity employment • Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently • Kraken product dogfooding and access to company products after joining