Director of Employee Relations & Compliance

Location: London, United Kingdom; on-site. Based in or willing to relocate to London, with travel across EMEA.

Company

Legora develops an AI-native workspace that helps legal professionals analyse documents and manage end-to-end legal workflows.

What you will do

• Own complex employee relations casework across Germany, the UK, Sweden, Italy, Spain, and France, including investigations, grievances, disciplinaries, performance improvement plans, and terminations for cause.
• Lead employment and ER compliance, including statutory notices, consultations, works council and union engagement, mandatory filings, register-keeping, and local implementation of the EU Whistleblowing Directive.
• Maintain the EMEA jurisdiction playbook, monitor legal changes, and involve Employment Counsel with clear written scopes.
• Build dedicated ER capability across EMEA on the foundation of the Stockholm team, including process design, hiring, certification, and calibration.
• Provide quality oversight for Local People Advisory and partner with People Partners, People Operations, People Tech, Rewards, and global ER counterparts.
• Turn case patterns into actionable reporting for People leadership and develop the function toward independent CHRO reporting.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading employee relations, HR compliance, or a similar function in a fast-scaling company.
• Deep practical knowledge of employment law and ER practice across several EMEA jurisdictions, with the ability to work outside the home jurisdiction.
• Demonstrated experience handling investigations, disciplinaries, and terminations calmly, neutrally, thoroughly, and to a legally sound standard.
• Experience building an ER or compliance function from the ground up, including processes, hiring, and distributed-team standards.
• Confidence acting as an independent senior voice and influencing or escalating to leadership.
• Based in or willing to relocate to London and able to travel across EMEA.

Culture & Benefits

• High-ownership environment focused on outcomes and direct, ego-free feedback.
• High standards for precision, excellence, and legally sound decision-making.
• Collaboration with People teams across EMEA, NORAM, and APAC.
• Opportunity to establish and scale a new independent employee relations function.