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Apply here by 30 June 2021
Minimum qualifications:
- Qualified to practice employment law in United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, or France.
- Experience advising multinational corporations on employment law issues as an in-house lawyer (including secondments) or at a law firm.
- Ability to speak and write in English fluently.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in working with and influencing clients on high-value, multi-jurisdictional mergers and acquisitions, employee transfer arrangements, and commercial agreements.
- Experience working in a regional employment legal role and on HR projects across multiple jurisdictions.
- Extensive knowledge of employment law and practice (including experience with European and local works councils, Acquired Rights Directive, or equivalent legislation and extended workforce issues) in multiple EMEA jurisdictions.
- Ability to identify issues and manage advisory work and projects autonomously and proactively, engaging relevant stakeholders as needed.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate difficult legal concepts concisely.
About the job
As Corporate Counsel at Google, you work on the most exciting legal issues as disruptive technological innovations require creative and proactive legal guidance. You’re part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You are collaborative — ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with Googlers from all over the company. As an integrated part of the team, you proactively assess legal risks and advise on products that will not only move information into the 21st century, but move information law forward as well.
Your primary responsibilities will be to provide employment legal advice related to Google’s corporate development activity, commercial agreements, extended workforce (temporary staff, vendors and contractors), new entity creation, and new business models (including the establishment and operation of other Alphabet businesses). This is a regional role and its scope includes all of the countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) where Google operates. Your aim will be to achieve consistency and compliance with local employment law, regulations, and practice, whilst at the same time recognizing the flexible and innovative place that Google strives to be. You can prioritize the demands of multiple regional and global internal clients, and are flexible enough to adapt to their needs in what can be a fast-paced and evolving environment. With the ability to work collaboratively and a willingness to partner on initiatives, you will influence all aspects of Google’s relationship with employees.
20th century laws don’t always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for handling some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you’re a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you take on unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
Responsibilities
- Advise on employment legal issues connected to mergers and acquisitions (including integration planning and employee transition arrangements), divestments, and setting up new entities and business models (including new employment models for specialized workforces) and commercial agreements with suppliers, customers, and partners.
- Advise on extended workforce risk, investigations, and policy development matters relating to temporary staff, vendors, and other categories of worker, including employment status and compliance issues.
- Advise on litigation connected to areas of primary responsibility working with regional and outside counsel to implement strategy, report on lessons learned and opportunities to improve people policies and practices to mitigate risk.
- Participate in cross-functional HR projects of varying levels of complexity, providing employment legal advice to project teams and program managers, including identifying risks and mitigation strategies and collaborating to drive projects to completion.
Apply here by 30 June 2021
