Legal Counsel Employment Law

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Company

Nebius is building a full-stack AI cloud platform for data and model training, GPU orchestration, inference optimization, and production deployment.

What you will do

• Act as the primary legal partner to HR and HQ units on Dutch employment, labour law, and employee-relations matters.
• Advise across recruitment, onboarding, employment status, performance, conduct, sickness and absence, investigations, disciplinary actions, terminations, and post-termination obligations.
• Manage employee disputes, settlement negotiations, termination agreements, litigation, administrative proceedings, and external counsel coordination.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and maintain employment agreements, policies, handbooks, settlement agreements, mobility documents, and related templates.
• Work directly with the Dutch Works Council on information, consultation, and consent processes.
• Lead employment-law workstreams for new jurisdictions and build scalable global and local templates, country playbooks, launch checklists, and approval workflows.

Requirements

• Dutch law degree or equivalent legal qualification with a strong employment and labour law specialisation.
• At least 7 years of relevant post-qualification legal experience, including substantial and recent Dutch employment-law work.
• Professional fluency in Dutch and English, written and spoken.
• Demonstrable experience working directly with a Dutch Works Council, including information, consultation, and consent processes.
• Hands-on experience with employee relations, disputes, investigations, performance and disciplinary matters, sickness and absence, reorganisations, terminations, settlements, and compensation.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, judgement, stakeholder-management, and organisational skills, with the ability to manage sensitive matters independently.

Nice to have

• Employment and labour law experience outside the Netherlands.
• In-house experience in an international technology, cloud, digital infrastructure, or other fast-growing cross-border business.
• Experience managing external employment counsel across multiple jurisdictions, including scope, budget, quality, and consistency.
• Experience with collective labour agreements, trade unions, collective redundancies, business transfers, executive employment, and incentive or equity arrangements.
• Experience establishing employment-law frameworks and processes for new country launches or international workforce expansion.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Career growth and learning opportunities.
• Flexibility and ownership in a fast-moving environment.
• Collaborative, innovative, and international workplace.
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects.