Director Legal Counsel – Employment Law

Location: Hybrid role based in Frankfurt or Berlin, Germany.

Company

hirify.global is a location data and technology platform company that develops solutions for infrastructure management, asset optimization, and navigation.

What you will do

• Act as lead employment law advisor for the EMEA region, including Germany.
• Advise Legal & Compliance, HR, senior leaders, and business teams on employee relations, performance management, investigations, restructurings, terminations, and cross-border workforce matters.
• Provide guidance on German individual and collective labor law, works councils, collective agreements, and employee representative relationships.
• Support organizational change, M&A, integrations, divestitures, expansion initiatives, and strategic projects.
• Draft, review, and negotiate employment agreements, policies, procedures, and executive arrangements.
• Manage employment disputes, litigation strategy, administrative proceedings, external counsel, training, and employment-law risk mitigation.

Requirements

• Fully qualified lawyer in Germany and Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht.
• 12+ years of employment law experience, including deep expertise in German labor and employment law.
• Strong experience with works council matters, collective labor law, restructurings, investigations, separations, and complex employee relations.
• Experience supporting cross-border employment matters across Europe; broader global exposure is a plus.
• Prior in-house experience in a multinational company, ideally in software technology or another fast-moving international environment.
• Excellent German and English communication skills required, with the ability to translate complex legal issues into practical business advice.
• Sound judgment, strong stakeholder management, pragmatic decision-making, and the ability to align employment law guidance with business strategy.
• Resilience, adaptability, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, complex, and evolving environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Individual contributor role with significant domain expertise, strategic influence, and visibility.
• Partner closely with international Legal & Compliance, HR, Communications, and business teams.
• Help shape employment law and employee relations strategy across Germany, Europe, and beyond.
• Employment is subject to successful pre-employment screening, including employment, education, and criminal verification where applicable.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and legally protected equal treatment.