Senior Legal Counsel (HR-tech)

Location: Anywhere in the world; fully hirify.global with flexible working hours and an async work model.

Annual salary range: $53,050–$149,150, with the specific range determined by location, experience, skills, training, business needs, internal parity, and market demands.

Company

hirify.global builds global payroll and employment infrastructure for businesses operating across more than 90 jurisdictions.

What you will do

• Advise and partner with Sales, Customer Experience, Onboarding, Lifecycle, and other operational stakeholders while managing internal and external client expectations.
• Develop template contracts, playbooks, standard operating procedures, and knowledge resources, with a focus on the Employer of Record product.
• Research new products and laws, identify legal risks and opportunities, and propose innovative solutions.
• Drive improvements to the legal function through scalable processes, best practices, and efficient legal resource management.
• Mentor, train, and support junior legal professionals while leading complex legal projects.
• Manage local counsel relationships, escalated legal matters, litigation, collections, and collaboration with Legal Operations on efficiency and AI projects.

Requirements

• Qualified and experienced lawyer with extensive legal practice experience, preferably in labor and employment law.
• Interest in working for a technology scale-up, particularly in HR technology.
• Ability to learn and use Slack, contract management systems, Notion, Google Drive, and Zendesk.
• Willingness to learn different legal systems and employment laws in a global environment.
• Creative legal thinking and the ability to develop innovative, out-of-the-box solutions.
• Fluent written and spoken English, with the ability to explain complex legal issues clearly and concisely.
• Ability to work autonomously and lead legal projects.
• Proven experience mentoring and guiding junior legal professionals.

Nice to have

• Additional language skills.
• Previous experience working hirify.globally.

Culture & Benefits

• Work from anywhere with flexible paid time off, flexible working hours, and an async working model.
• Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave and mental health support services.
• Budgets for co-working spaces, learning, wellness, home office equipment, and IT equipment.
• Stock options and a focus on ownership, autonomy, life-work balance, and inclusive belonging.

Hiring process

• Recruiter interview, Hiring Manager interview, written exercise, team interview with the Associate General Counsel and team members, and Bar Raiser interview.
• Prior employment verification check.
• Submit the application and CV in English as a PDF; an up-to-date LinkedIn profile may be submitted instead of a CV.