# Senior Employment Counsel

**Company**: Nebius
**Location**: Amsterdam
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Nebius is seeking a Senior Employment Counsel to act as the primary legal partner to the HR team. The role involves providing advice on employment and labour law across the full employee lifecycle, including employment terms, compensation and benefits, performance and conduct matters, sickness and absence, investigations, reorganisations, terminations, settlement arrangements, and employee disputes.

The successful candidate will have a Dutch law degree or equivalent legal qualification, with a strong specialisation in employment and labour law. They will have at least 7 years of relevant post-qualification legal experience, with a substantial and recent focus on Dutch employment and labour law.

Responsibilities include:

- Providing timely, practical, decisive, and commercially balanced advice on employment and labour law and employee-relations matters

- Advising across the full employee lifecycle, including recruitment terms, onboarding, employment status, performance, conduct, sickness and absence, investigations, disciplinary measures, terminations, and post-termination obligations

- Managing employee disputes and contentious matters from early assessment through resolution

- Advising on compensation and benefits matters, including salary and bonus arrangements, incentive and equity plans, allowances, pensions, and changes to terms and conditions

- Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and maintaining Dutch employment agreements, offer letters, policies, handbooks, settlement agreements, secondment and mobility documentation, and related templates

- Working directly with the Dutch Works Council, advising on information, consultation, and consent processes

- Advising on reorganisations, restructurings, redundancies, business transfers, and other workforce changes

- Leading employment-law workstreams for entry into new jurisdictions

- Building and maintaining scalable employment-law infrastructure

- Monitoring relevant legal and regulatory developments, updating agreements, policies, and guidance, and providing training to HR, managers, and other stakeholders

Benefits & Perks:

- Competitive compensation

- Career growth and learning opportunities

- Flexibility and ownership

- Collaborative and innovative culture

- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects

- International environment and talented teams

## Skills

### Required
- Dutch employment and labour law
- Employment law
- Labour law
- Dutch law degree
- English
- Dutch

### Nice to have
- Experience with employment and labour law in jurisdictions outside the Netherlands
- Prior in-house experience in an international organisation
- Experience instructing and working with external employment counsel in multiple jurisdictions

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