Remote - Referral Board
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Director, Commercial Legal
About Remote
With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
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:
- Serving as the directly responsible individual (DRI) for Commercial Legal and leading the team to provide excellent legal support for sales, partnership, and vendor contract reviews and negotiations. Ensure sufficient and timely support at month-end and quarter-end.
- Empowering GTM teams to go upmarket and close enterprise-level customers by upgrading commercial terms and templates, simplifying sales contracting processes, and proactively training GTM teams in close collaboration with Legal and GTM stakeholders.
- Providing strategic support to Partnership teams on deal negotiations and bespoke terms drafting that captures business intent while maintaining commerciality for timely deal closure.
- Collaborating with revenue operations and legal operations teams to automate workflows and leverage AI for increased contracting efficiency. Maintain the CLM system and relevant processes to ensure stakeholder synergy, and capture valuable commercial contracting metrics to inform better decision-making by GTM and Finance stakeholders.
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
- (async) Profile review
- Interview with recruiter
- Interview with hiring manager
- Written exercise
- Interview with Legal team members
- Interview with stakeholder
- Interview with execs and Bar Raiser interview to happen simultaneously
- Reference check
- (async) Offer
#LI-DNP
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
Benefits
- work from anywhere
- flexible paid time off
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- mental health support services
- stock options
- learning budget
- home office budget & IT equipment
- budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
How you’ll plan your day (and life)
We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.
If that sounds like something you want, apply now!
How to apply
- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Remote - Referral Board
Managing Counsel, Product
About Remote
With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
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 as a Managing Counsel, Product (Please note, this is not a People Manager role). We are looking for a talented and eager lawyer, who is interested in helping with our team’s mission, namely: 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 bunch of friendly, talented highly motivated lawyers from a whole host of different countries, with some awesome experiences.
As Remote grows and adds new products, the volume and complexity of issues scale across 90+ jurisdictions. You will be a legal partner to Product, Engineering, Privacy, and Security, with emphasis on HRIS and AI/ML features, translating complex rules into clear, shippable requirements and striking the right balance between compliance and commerciality.
More specifically, this role is expected to:
- Lead AI and HRIS product compliance, partnering with Product, Engineering, Security and the Privacy team;
- Embed a risk-based legal review into product development workflows;
- Own product T&Cs for HRIS and AI features (output ownership, training use, acceptable use, transparency/disclaimers).
- Stand up core Product AI governance (model inventory, risk classification, human oversight, bias/testing, incident response alignment)
What you bring
- Qualified Lawyer: Seasoned lawyer with extensive experience on Product counseling (jurisdiction agnostic; multiple bars a plus)
- Product Counsel Experience in technology, with prior HR-tech exposure (EOR/PEO/HRIS/Payroll) advising at scale across multiple jurisdictions.
- Strong command of emerging AI frameworks (e.g., EU AI Act, UK approach, U.S. state/federal developments, Canada AIDA) and their interplay with data protection (GDPR/CCPA) and employment transparency rules
- In-house Experience: Bonus - In-house legal experience preferred
- Startup Experience: Bonus - Experience in fast-paced start-up
- Tech Passion: Passionate about tech and HR tech products
- Skills: Excellent analytical and organizational skills
- Language: Writes and speaks fluent English
- Tools: Tech-savvy with Slack, Juro, Notion, Google Drive, or equivalent
- It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus
Key Responsibilities
Legal Expertise
- Own HRIS and AI product counseling end-to-end, including AI impact assessments, model cards, and risk controls with Privacy/Security.
- Draft and negotiate product terms, and AI-specific clauses as required (training/usage of data & metadata, output/IP ownership, acceptable use, transparency), in collaboration with Commercial Legal team.
- Proactively monitor new AI and tech regulations and translate those into concrete, actionable steps for product, design and engineering teams.
- Manage external counsel on complex, multi-jurisdictional issues; drive clear, practical outcomes.
- Deliver targeted enablement (Trainings or office hours).
- Partner with Privacy & Security on DPIAs/TIAs, incident response, and vendor/LLM diligence.
- Complex Matters: Figures out solutions rather than just escalating problems.
Bonus Points
- Experience working with AI/ML legal and compliance issues
- Shipped at least one AI feature in production and built the accompanying legal/governance framework.
- Experience working remotely
Practicals
- You'll report to: Managing Counsel, Commercial & Product
- Team: Legal
- Location: Anywhere in the World
- Start date: As soon as possible
Application process
- Interview with recruiter
- Interview with future manager
- Written Exercise
- Interview with Senior Director and team member
- Bar Raiser Interview
- Prior employment verification check
#LI-DNP
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
Benefits
- work from anywhere
- flexible paid time off
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- mental health support services
- stock options
- learning budget
- home office budget & IT equipment
- budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
How you’ll plan your day (and life)
We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.
If that sounds like something you want, apply now!
How to apply
- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Remote - Referral Board
Legal Counsel, Procurement
About Remote
With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
What this job can offer you
We are seeking an exceptionally intelligent and commercially-minded Legal Counsel to join our team. This role requires a sharp legal mind with extensive experience in commercial law, particularly in negotiating and reviewing complex vendor agreements. You will be instrumental in protecting Remote's interests while enabling business growth through strategic legal support.
In this role, you will take center stage in managing high-impact commercial agreements that directly shape the trajectory of Remote’s global operations. You won't just be reviewing contracts in a silo; you’ll act as a strategic partner, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams in product, sales, and operations to drive meaningful business outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to tackle cutting-edge legal challenges within the evolving HR tech landscape, applying your expertise in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where your legal insights don't just mitigate risk but they actively influence company strategy.
What you bring
- Rigorous legal training at a reputable law firm and best practices
- Significant experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating vendor agreements, SaaS contracts, and other commercial contracts
- Understand business objectives and can provide practical, business-oriented legal advice that balances risk with opportunity
- Quickly grasps complex issues, identify risks, and propose creative solutions
- Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities
- Writes and speaks fluent English
- It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus
Key Responsibilities
- Review, draft, and negotiate a high volume of vendor agreements, ensuring favorable terms and risk mitigation
- Provide strategic commercial legal advice to business stakeholders across the organization
- Develop and maintain contract templates, playbooks, and legal processes to scale efficiently
- Collaborate with procurement, finance, and operations teams to support vendor onboarding and management
- Identify legal risks and opportunities in commercial relationships and provide clear, actionable guidance
- Stay current on relevant laws and regulations affecting commercial contracts in multiple jurisdictions
Practicals
- You'll report to: Associate General Counsel, Infrastructure
- Team: Legal
- Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritise applications from EMEA
- Start date: As soon as possible
Application process
- Interview with recruiter
- Interview with team member
- Written exercise
- Interview with Hiring Manager
- Bar Raiser
- Prior employment verification check
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
Benefits
- work from anywhere
- flexible paid time off
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- mental health support services
- stock options
- learning budget
- home office budget & IT equipment
- budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
How you’ll plan your day (and life)
We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.
If that sounds like something you want, apply now!
How to apply
- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Remote - Referral Board