In-House Legal Counsel
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In-house Spanish employment lawyer resolving cross-border employment matters for WorkMotion’s global workforce solutions business. Supporting departments, contracts, compliance, and international growth remotely.
Responsibilities:
- Resolve employment law matters across different countries
- Support internal units and departments on legal matters
- Help the organization grow and build new business globally
- Ensure company activities comply with local laws
- Act as a hands-on legal project manager partnering with the business
- Collaborate with Operations, Sales, internal departments, local payroll providers, and law firms
- Deliver high-quality, customer-centric legal work aligned with wider business goals
Requirements:
- Spanish lawyer, admitted to the bar in Spain
- Expertise in Spanish employment law
- Experience working in a law firm or the legal department of a company/startup; ideally both
- Around 2–4 years of qualified experience
- Spanish mother tongue
- Fluent business and legal English, written and spoken
- Sharp legal and business judgment, focused and solution-oriented
- Knowledge of employment law in other jurisdictions, e.g. Portugal (bonus)
- Knowledge of data protection law/GDPR (bonus)
- Experience drafting and negotiating sales contracts (bonus)
- Additional languages such as Portuguese, French, Italian, or German (bonus)
Benefits:
- WorkFlex program allowing work from anywhere, anytime
- Well-Being Day (a full day off)
- Subsidised gym memberships
- Training & Development Allowance
- Annual team meetups
- Equal opportunity and diverse, inclusive workplace
- Recruitment-process accommodations upon request
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