Legal Counsel (International Employment)
Sumsub is the one verification platform to secure the whole user journey. With Sumsub’s customizable KYC, KYB, transaction monitoring and fraud prevention solutions, you can orchestrate your verification process, welcome more customers worldwide, meet compliance requirements, reduce costs and protect your business.
Sumsub has over 2,500 clients across the fintech, crypto, transportation, trading and gaming industries including Bitpanda, Wirex, Avis, Bybit, Huobi, Kaizen Gaming, and TransferGo.
We’re seeking a strong Legal Counsel to provide employment law support and advice. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact by structuring and streamlining legal workflows in a fast-paced, vibrant environment.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Drive strategic HR initiatives by providing employment law guidance for business operations.
- Draft and update employment-related agreements, templates, and documentation, including employment policies, employment agreements, and process documents.
- Lead employment-related compliance and privacy matters, ensuring HR practices meet legal requirements across all operations.
- Handle complex employee relations.
- Support HR teams and the rest of the legal team with day-to-day legal advice, from routine questions to urgent employment matters.
About you:
- Have a university degree in law (LL.B. or equivalent).
- Have 5+ years of experience in international labor law, including significant time with a global company or a company with substantial cross-border operations (preferably with emphasis on EU jurisdictions).
- Strong employment law expertise, with knowledge of international HR practices and regulations.
- Strong analytical skills to research complex legal questions and provide practical, business-focused advice.
- Proven professional judgment when handling sensitive information.
- Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail.
- Fluency in English, as you'll be working extensively with English-speaking colleagues.
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation in compliance with your professional expertise.
- Working with a product that matters. Our technology helps to protect millions of users and lots of online services worldwide.
- International project. Our team works from offices in Berlin, Limassol, London, and Miami, our customers are spread from Mexico and the USA to Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore.
- Remote first company – work from anywhere in the world.
- Paid vacation and sick leave.
Sounds like a great opportunity for your career development? Then go ahead and apply!
We are a global community of innovators, creators, and thinkers, and we believe that diversity fuels our innovation. Sumsub is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, genders, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Join us in shaping the future inclusively.
- Department
- Legal
- Locations
- EU
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
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Legal Counsel (International Employment)
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