# Employment Counsel, EMEA

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: Dublin, London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Stripe’s legal team works on complex technical and legal issues to help protect our growing business. As Employment Counsel, you’ll advise our People team and other business partners on employment law across EMEA and proactively manage employment-related risks.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with our People team to provide subject-matter expertise on employment issues, including recruiting, hiring, performance management, compensation and benefits, leaves of absence, people data privacy, internal investigations, working time, and HR best practices

- Proactively review employment policies to support legal compliance and consistency with best practices

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support and maintain employment compliance

- Draft and negotiate employment-related agreements, including offer letters, contractor agreements, and vendor agreements

- Handle pre-litigation and litigation matters

- Monitor developments in employment, AI, and data protection law and advise on developments that may affect Stripe

Requirements:

- 4+ years of specialist, post-qualification employment law experience at a law firm or in-house legal department

- Qualification to practice law in Ireland or England and Wales

- Ability to analyse employment law matters of varying complexity, exercise sound judgment, and make well-reasoned decisions amid ambiguity and incomplete information

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders while maintaining discretion, confidentiality, and professionalism

- Strong organisational and project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple long- and short-term workstreams, collaborate across teams, and support international employment law matters outside EMEA when needed

## Skills

### Required
- employment law
- contract negotiation
- litigation
- HR best practices
- data protection law

### Nice to have
- in-house experience
- technology clients
- employee representative bodies
- works councils
- European works councils

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