Director, Employment Legal
Summary
Leads a regional employment legal team in EMEA, providing strategic advice on labor law, compliance, and HR initiatives while managing team operations and external counsel.
As Director, Employment Legal, your primary responsibility will be to manage the daily operations of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Employment Legal team and provide strategy, direction, and outlook for its growth, improvement, and continued success.
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- Provide legal advice to executive stakeholders across Google People Operations, Google Legal, and Google more broadly on a variety of employment legal topics.
- Manage a team, including team development and recruitment of new team members.
- Identify and implement scaling, efficient and process improvements for EMEA Employment Legal’s daily legal activities and other practice improvement projects that can be leveraged globally where possible.
- Manage EMEA Employment Legal’s relationships with outside counsel and other providers.
- Contribute to collaboration and knowledge sharing with your regional peers and across the Global Employment Legal team. Help develop the strategy of the Global Employment Legal team, and implement that in EMEA.
Minimum qualifications:
- JD, LL.B., equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience with employment law and of managing employment law issues in multiple jurisdictions in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
- Experience in people management.
- Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice employment law (e.g. have registered in-house status) in the country in which the position is located.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience developing, implementing, and using legal department technology.
- Experience working in a regional employment legal role and on HR projects across multiple jurisdictions, with the ability to identify issues, manage matters independently and with minimal supervision.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate difficult legal concepts concisely.
- Excellent problem-solving capabilities, sometimes in the case of unknowns.
- Excellent organizational, project management, and execution skills with a collaborative and flexible approach when partnering with others.