Senior Employment Counsel, International Lifecycle
About the role
Who You Are
Do you enjoy turning complex international employment issues into clear, practical guidance that helps teams move with confidence? Are you energized by helping a global EOR business handle sensitive employment lifecycle matters with sound judgment, consistency, and care?
You are an experienced employment lawyer who understands that strong EOR legal support requires both legal judgment and operational follow-through. You know how to evaluate lifecycle risk, partner with local experts, align stakeholders, and help teams reach practical outcomes in complex and time-sensitive employment matters. You bring clear communication, business-oriented judgment, and a steady approach to sensitive employee lifecycle issues.
As part of the International Legal team, the Senior Employment Counsel, International Lifecycle will provide legal support for complex employment lifecycle execution across Justworks’ EOR offering, with particular focus on sensitive, complex, or escalated matters such as terminations, performance management, leave, and employee relations. You will serve as the legal point of contact for selected lifecycle matters that require Legal involvement, partnering closely with regional employment counsel on local-law requirements and with Operations, Customer Service, Payroll, Benefits, Product, Sales, and outside counsel as needed to drive practical resolution.
A major focus of this role will be building the standards, playbooks, escalation paths, decision frameworks, documentation expectations, and training that help operational teams handle routine lifecycle matters effectively and identify when Legal should be involved. This is a role for someone who can move fluidly between matter execution and scalable process-building, creating solutions out of insights learned from real patterns to make Justworks' EOR lifecycle support clearer, stronger, and easier to operate.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
- Lead the Legal workstream for sensitive, complex, or escalated EOR lifecycle matters that require Legal involvement, including complex terminations, redundancies, settlements, protected leave, accommodations, pay equity claims, employee relations issues, performance management, and employment disputes, in partnership with regional employment counsel and outside counsel as needed.
- Serve as the legal point of contact for complex termination and offboarding matters that require Legal involvement, helping teams evaluate risk, define strategy, align stakeholders, prepare required documentation, and move matters from intake through resolution.
- Partner with regional employment counsel to translate local legal requirements into practical guidance for Operations, Customer Service, and other teams.