Director - Commercial Legal

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space. We're seeking a talented and seasoned commercial contract lawyer with extensive experience in sales, partnership, and procurement transactions in HR Tech and/or SaaS—as well as leading and guiding a team of up-and-coming commercial lawyers. You should be passionate about our team's mission, which is: to deliver pragmatic and innovative legal solutions for Remote's products and stakeholders while protecting Remote from unacceptable risk.

Remote's well-established Legal team is a group of friendly, talented, highly motivated lawyers from many different countries, bringing a wealth of diverse experience.

As Remote expands its global footprint, each new country brings unique legal challenges. The Legal Team ensures the legal soundness of our business models, manages contractual agreements with clients and their staff (the employees we hire under our "Employer of Record" service—our "external employees"), and oversees data protection compliance, among other areas.

This is a director-level role managing approximately 3-5 reports. Key priorities for this role include:

What you bring

• Qualified lawyer in your location (mandatory)
• Technically an excellent commercial contracts lawyer. (Be prepared to give examples of difficult negotiations and specific legal points you’ve tackled.)
• Previous in-house experience in similar roles
• Passionate about working for a tech scale-up, specifically in HR-tech
• Outstanding team leader who mentors, motivates, and brings people together
• Excellent ability to build trusted relationships with key stakeholders in a fully remote environment.
• Excited about using AI to work smarter, faster, and more creatively.
• Solves problems rather than just escalating them
• Fearless to speak your mind, break things, and learn from mistakes
• Low ego
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills
• Ability to multi-task and switch between projects on short notice
• Proficiency in—or demonstrated ability to learn—Remote's tech stack, including communication application (Slack), contract management system (Coupa), documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive, etc.), and task management system (Notion)
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Remote work experience is not required but considered a plus

Key responsibilities

The four points listed above provide a good overview of the key responsibilities for this role. In performing these responsibilities, you will be expected to:

• Guide, mentor, and nurture a team, including proactively providing timely and constructive feedback to team members
• Build strategic relationships with GTM stakeholders and increase Legal's influence and voice in important discussions about the company's commercial strategies
• Identify company-wide legal issues and work with key internal stakeholders and external partners to implement efficient and effective solutions
• Take on a leadership role in cross-team legal projects, collaborating with Remoters from other teams (GTM, Tax, Finance, Product, etc.) and the Legal Team to ensure projects are completed on time with high-quality deliverables
• Institute best practices and lead training to help the Legal Team function more efficiently, expand knowledge base and expertise, and make legal advice easier to access and use for both other Remoters and clients
• Seek to improve team efficiencies through close collaborations with other support teams such as Legal Ops and Revenue Ops
• Manage external local counsel as needed
• Assist with other legal, advisory, regulatory, and compliance work as required

Practical

• You'll report to: Senior Director of Legal
• Team: Legal
• Location: US or UK
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

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