Director, Senior Employment Counsel (Global)

The role

This person will provide expert counsel on employment law matters across multiple regions. They will partner with internal stakeholders to ensure compliance, mitigate risk, and support the business in employment aspects.

What you will do

• Provide expert counsel on employment law matters across multiple regions.
• Serve as a partner to the People Team and business leaders.
• Support Talent and Compensation teams in creation of employment documentation.
• Support employment litigation and dispute resolution and manage outside counsel.
• Provide practical legal guidance across multiple jurisdictions.
• Develop and update region-specific policies, handbooks, contracts, and procedures.
• Advise on strategic workforce planning, organizational design, restructuring, and M&A activity.
• Advise on works councils, unions and CBAs across the regions.
• Monitor and communicate regional legal developments.

Required qualifications

• Law degree with admission to practice in at least one jurisdiction
• Minimum 14 years of progressive experience in global employment law
• Proven success advising on complex, cross-border employment issues in a global, matrixed environment
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Strategic thinker with hands-on execution capability and a deep understanding of risk management
• Excellent negotiation skills and resilience
• Fluency in English
• Familiarity in Europe, Middle East & Asia including Spain, India, UK, Ireland, Israel, Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey and Germany

Nice to have

• Professional proficiency in Spanish
• Additional languages
• Prior in-house and M&A experience
• Experience in the technology and/or games industry

About the company

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company. It creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates a diversified portfolio in the games industry.