clients Skuad

Corporate Officer

Location

Spain, Netherlands

Job Type

Contract

Experience

5+ years

Salary

N/A

Skill Set

Role

Legal Counsel

Why you should join Skuad

💵 Venture capital-backed hyper growth company

🚀 Rapid career advancement with opportunities to learn

💰 Competitive salary and Performance bonus

🏖 Paid time off, Flexi-hour policy & Wellness benefits 


About the role

  • Be a trusted legal partner to the Employee Success organization and the business navigating sensitive and wide-ranging issues from employment agreement terms, hiring and recruiting issues, discipline, investigations, working hours, leaves of absence, workplace adjustments, terminations, workforce restructuring activities, mergers and acquisitions and related matters.
  • Work with Labor Consultant to resolve any issues on statutory labor filings.
  • Partner with various internal stakeholders to provide guidance on employment-related policies, guidelines, and processes with an approach that balances pragmatism, risk, and compliance.
  • Team with our global employment lawyers and HR compliance specialists to represent and integrate regional requirements in global projects.
  • Collaborate with the privacy legal team and other legal specialists.
  • Conduct engaging training for ES and business.
  • Respond to demand letters and administrative or governmental inquiries.
  • Manage labor and employment litigation matters, partnering with in-house litigation counsel, as they arise.

Ideal candidate

  • 5+ years combined experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal department, preferably with experience as an EU employment in-house lawyer (or secondee) in a multinational company
  • Excellent written/verbal communication and negotiation skills - crisp, clear and to the point
  • Commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion across multiple cultural settings
  • A good listener, quickly able to identify the critical issues
  • Highly responsive, collaborative and service-oriented attitude
  • Ability to organize, prioritize and manage deadlines in a fast-paced and demanding work environment and across multiple time-zones
  • Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with demanding (but really nice) internal clients
  • Sound and practical business judgment - the ability to translate legal concepts simply and across cultures
  • Emphasis on what is right, and not just what is legal
  • Willingness to travel to all India offices and in region
  • Legal Studies or Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the skills you'll use every day for the role (eg extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc)
  • Exposure to businesses operating at scale or multi-national corporations
  • Ability to engage collaboratively with all stakeholders, influence key decision-makers and manage change across the organization
  • Excellent numerical, organizational, IT, and time management skills
  • High standards of confidentiality, discretion, and integrity
  • Self Starter - You are ambitious take initiative, and thrive in environments with minimal supervision
  • Curiosity - You are energized by finding creative solutions to new situations
  • High Standards – You take pride in your work and are highly accountable
  • Grit – You bring determination and a strong will to the challenges and opportunities that come with being in a startup environment
  • You will be able to work with different time zones



About Skuad

Envision a world without borders where a company can find, hire, and manage talent regardless of location. A world where you can find work that speaks to your passion without having to move to another place. Skuad enables this! 


Skuad is a global employment and payroll platform - we enable companies to employ contractors and full-time employees in over 160 countries, without the complexities of setting up a local legal entity.


With Skuad's unified platform, companies can -


  • onboard new hires anywhere in the world in minutes
  • run global payroll securely and with a single click
  • stay 100% compliant with local employment laws
  • manage benefits, work permits, timesheets, and more


Our leaders have over two decades of HR experience and expertise in building globally diverse and distributed teams, with a vision to create 1 million opportunities globally by 2027. We function well as a globally distributed team of driven individuals. We achieve this with a deep focus on providing value to our customers, learning from one another, and collaborating asynchronously and effectively while being committed to continuous learning & improvement


We raised $15 million in Series A funding in October 2022. This funding round brings the total raised to $19 million, including participation from returning investors Beenext and Anthemis.


With Skuad you'll have 😃 


  • Ownership: You will own what you do. We are a results-driven team, which means we expect you to get things done.
  • Endless support: You will always have the help you might need and the resources you need to deliver.
  • Experiment: This is your playground. Come up with ideas, pitch them and take initiative. You will have a free hand to execute exciting ideas.
  • Impact: Be a part of a world-class team where we are constantly working on something new and maximise the impact of the products we build.


If you are someone who wants to solve real-world challenges and enjoys finding elegant solutions to difficult problems, Skuad is the perfect workplace for you! 


Join us to build a global employment solution that is making opportunities accessible for talent and organisations across the world.



Founders

Sundeep Sahi, CEO

Has over 20 years in the industry with executive roles in product, analytics, and technology across startups and enterprises. Sundeep co-founded Indifi, worked at Microsoft, headed Wynk product to mention a few. He holds 3 patents in Distributed Applications and is adept at building and managing large distributed teams spanned across North America, Europe, India, and Australia.


Awards

Recognized under 30 Startups To Watch: The Startups That Caught Our Eye In January 2021 by INC42