Counsel, Employment - International (Hybrid)

The role

You will serve as a strategic legal advisor providing employment law guidance across EMEA and APAC. You will own international employment matters to support expansion and manage risk across the employee lifecycle.

What you will do

• Advise on recruiting, compensation, performance management, leaves, and terminations across EMEA + APAC.
• Lead and advise on sensitive workplace investigations and complex employee relations matters.
• Lead strategies and engagements for works councils, employee consultation processes, and employee representation bodies across European jurisdictions.
• Counsel on workforce change management, structural consultations, reorganizations, restructurings, global mobility, EOR models, contingent workforce compliance, and M&A due diligence/integration.
• Draft, maintain, and localize employment agreements, separation packages, handbooks, and compliance policies.
• Oversee workforce privacy and employee data compliance.
• Coordinate multi-jurisdictional legal advice and manage outside local counsel.
• Resolve employment disputes, direct litigation strategy, agency investigations, and employment tribunal claims.
• Leverage AI-powered tools to streamline legal research, drafting, knowledge management, and self-service playbooks.

Required qualifications

• Licensed, qualified solicitor in England & Wales
• 5 to 8 years of post-qualification experience (PQE) specializing in employment law within a reputable firm or global in-house legal department
• Substantial expertise in UK and EMEA employment law
• Practical experience or a strong willingness to expand support across APAC
• Demonstrated experience handling works councils, workforce change management/consultations, complex ER matters, sensitive workplace investigations, restructurings, and employment disputes
• Exceptional ability to translate complex cross-border legal concepts into clear, risk-adjusted, commercially aligned advice

Nice to have

• Prior in-house experience supporting a high-growth technology, SaaS, or marketplace business with distributed global workforces
• A track record of building scalable legal processes, playbooks, and training resources for HR and business stakeholders, including specific examples where you used AI tools, agents, or workflow automa

Benefits

• 5 weeks paid vacation
• Private health & dental insurance
• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to Headspace
• Annual company-wide week off a year
• Paid parental leave
• Time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Development Dollars
• Leadership development
• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings

About the company

OpenTable is an industry leader with 70,000+ restaurant partners and 25+ years of experience. It is part of Booking Holdings, Inc.